Panic Attacks Support Group

responding to all who are afraid of driving. select a place somewhere close. first close your eyes and visualize the place you to visit going there. Try to picture all the detail about the place. Then, start driving to the place in your imagination, get out of the car, look around and then come back. Now, get in the car for real, pay attention to the details around you, drive to you destination, get out, look around and then come back. Keep doing it until you have no fear. If you get too scared before your destination, come back, calm yourself then try again and again until you reach your destination. I started getting scared of this one specific street, all of a sudden, close to my home that I used for the last 10 year. Came from no where. I used the same technique I gave you guys here and I feel fine now. I haven't done the same thing at night though. I am scared of darkness. So I will give that a try.

I wonder if some of the virtual reality stuff in computer simulated environments could be of some help with psychological issues such as these. I saw an interesting segment on ABC's Shark Tank once where two entrepreneurs were trying to obtain seed money from angel investors to fund this novel concept. Things like this fascinate me!

virtual reality... yep that gives me some ideas... anyway, I drove on that street I was talking about earlier last night. I think I was a bit nervous but I didn't panic. So success!

that's great dondull!

Driving is my biggest obstacle. Oh, I do drive, and sometimes I'm absolutely fine with not even a little bit of anxiety. Short distances aren't bad for the most part, but there are too many times I get myself worked up, mainly in heavy traffic, the freeway, or long distances. It's not that I fear driving itself, it's that my brain associates driving with a really bad attack that I had while in a vehicle 2 years ago. I'm really sick of it TBH. I used to love hopping in the car, taking long rides, now doing that is something I tend to dread. I don't avoid it though, I suck it up and do it, but it's definitely not fun for me.