#driving phobia

[amygdala-decay]

watching car wreck videos even though I'm amaxophobic because I hate myself I guess

something I will never understand is why some dashcam owners still drive like assholes. like now you're just recording hard proof of your incompetence

anyway be careful on the road y'all, it only takes one idiot to render you dead or permanently disabled

[wtf-fun-factss]

Vehophobia is a fear of driving and other things car-related. Click to read the full fact.

[pattytacuri]

Driving anxiety got me making jokes. 😅🤣 At least I'm laughing and not crying. 😭

[thelost-andlonely]

Driving anxiety

not driven in like 3 years since I passed my test cos I couldn't afford to but also i kept being told that it would be fine and I would pick it straight back up again. I now have a car I can't drive without having a panic attack 20 mins into being behind the wheel. and I don't even know what to do about it, can't practice cos I know I'm gonna panic, can't not practice cos then it'll get worse.

[mini-and-mighty]

I never want to hear people talk shit about mental health medication ever again.

Seriously, I’ve only been on my anti-anxiety meds for two weeks and they’ve been a damn game changer. 

I have serious driving anxiety. So much that I have frequent nightmares and can get panic attacks even sitting in the passenger seat of a car in busy traffic. 

I haven’t driven in 4 (?) months and I just drove 2 miles with mild traffic. And I feel okay. Not great, not amazing, but I don’t feel like I just got off a damn rollercoaster. I didn’t have to catch my breath because I wasn’t hyperventilating. My limbs weren’t shaking so badly that I couldn’t walk. 

I’m 20 years old. I’ve been fighting my driving anxiety for four years. And the right medication managed to help me in two weeks. 

I am fucking medicated and mighty- and I dare anyone to try to shame me into giving up this power. 

[certney]

My drivers test is tomorrow!! I feel like I'm gonna die! Do I need to back into a parking space??? I can't do that!! I've done that only twice and that was almost a year ago!

[degentle]

How to overcome driving fear/phobia

[itsnotblonde]

How can you have a phobia of driving?

well i mean how does anyone have a phobia of anything? it just sort of happens

im not sure how it developed but i know ive had it for most of my life, when i was a kid i literally panicked my way out of going on a day care field trip to a go kart place on multiple occasions. but it was easier to live with as a kid bc kids can’t drive, as i get older it’s harder and harder to live life without knowing how to drive, and that anxiety only fuels the flames

like i know it sounds really weird and kinda dumb to have a phobia of something just about everyone needs to be able to do, but a phobia by definition is an irrational fear, and i know in my mind that it’s irrational but i fear it none the less