Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I have been able to drive, but only short distances like right up the street. Lately that has not been so. I will not drive anywhere. I drove to church yesterday and thought I was going to have to turn around. I don't know why it's getting worse and I want to know what can be done about it. I used to love to drive. I feel pressure in my head and sometimes I get dizzy out of no where while I am driving. That scares me because I think something is wrong. Then I suffer from depersonalization so I think I am going crazy because I don't feel connected to my body parts that are driving (my leg and arms). I just don't know what to do. Any advice or anyone else understand, at least?
I have a very hard time driving with other people in the car.
The moment they try to give me directions or make suggestions about driving, routes or otherwise, I start to get physical symptoms of anxiety and my heart begins to race. I risk losing focus, get anxious and fear I will get into an accident. I think it all goes back to an incident I had with an instructor when I was first learning how to drive and I don't know how to overcome it.
When I am a passenger I am a nervous wreck, I continually think that the driver does not see that there is a car in front of them. When my blood sugar is low it is worse because I think they are a bit spaced out like I am! If I sit in the back seat of a taxi I am okay.