Do you drive?

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I find that being on medication makes me slow and impared while driving . I am okay when driving in quiet areas not so much in bigger cities were theres tons of traffic. sometimes I experience anxiety/panic attacks does this happen to anybody else ? I am also diagnosed with social anxiety so I am pretty sure being out in public does too contribute to my anxiety

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same here. My driving ability is impaired by meds so I could only drive in quiet neighborhood and to shopping centers. I don’t drive in hectic city area.

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My driving is not affected by the meds. If you don’t feel like you’re safe behind the wheel of a car, you should definitely stop driving. I had to give up my keys for a few months, when I was on a higher dose. You have to be responsible enough to police yourself. It is not okay to gamble other people’s lives because you don’t want to be inconvienced.

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I’ve finally got my car in the shop after 6 months of letting it sit…

The repair dude is nice. Seems reasonable…

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I drive nearly every day. It’s no problem. Off meds I couldn’t drive though. Too much hallucinating and I black out for long periods of time.

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My driving is “A” O.K. under medication.

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I can’t drive. My judgement is too impaired. I don’t know by my illness or by my medications or whatever or something but I just can’t drive anymore. Or really, I never could. I’m just making it official now.

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I can’t drive because of my heart condition.

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I can fortunately drive fine on my meds.

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Nope. I’m too afraid and paranoid. Something about piloting a giant metal thing around others piloting giant metal things going fast who have only agreed to basically not play bumper cars scares me. Also the fact that everyone on the road is likely to kill me. Also paying attention to multiple lanes of traffic at the same time as a GPS seems like it would not go over well for me. And ■■■■ me if I ever got into an accident because I would have a panic attack from that and then my social anxiety would go into overdrive having to deal with talking to the other person involved…

Just nope. I may learn eventually if I can get over my fears. It doesn’t help when people tell me everyone on the road IS a dangerous idiot, either.

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just myself crazy.

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I think you and me have simular attitudes towards driving.

This whole post of yours sounds how I would sum up my experience with other drivers.

I drive, but not in certain situations.

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Off and on. I got my first car when I was 17. It got totalled in a wreck. Second car stolen.

I got diagnosed at age 19 and didn’t drive again I was about 22 or 23. Anyways, I’ve been driving steadily in my own cars since 1995. I’ve only been in one serious wreck that was my fault but no one got hurt and my insurance paid the other drivers damages. Not a bad record actually though I’ve gotten a few tickets.

I can drive freeways OK but I do occasionally get mad at other drivers. The longest trip was about 200 miles, one way, to visit my dad. My commute to my job is about 45 minutes on a large street. It’s actually not that bad. I have my soda, my music playing and I’m diggin’ it. I get to check out other people, walking or driving. I get to drive through a downtown in a big city in the morning that has few people out. I get to check out pretty women, and just relax.

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