I told myself I’ll stop driving until I’m through benzo withdrawals. Almost passed out yesterday.
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i dont drive cause i always lost in thoughts.
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I have cognitive issues when I drive. For the most part I’m okay because people play on their phones all the time and they are fine.
Also it sounds to me like you live in the country? I live in the suburbs. I used to live in the city. And I used to live in the country, and what it sounds like to me is that you have a family that is in the country. At least that is what the politics sound like to me.
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I drove for 40 years with cognitive, psychotic and depression issues and I was a very terrible driver. I got into more accidents than I can count and no one thought to take my license away, amazingly. At age 55, it got even worse and I got into five really bad car accidents all in one year and received two traffic citations in that same year so, they took my auto insurance away, thereby grounding me. I now have to live in a retirement home at the age of 58 to receive chauffeur services.
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I like cycling a lot more then driving. I find that the meds affect my driving making me slow and pissing of fhe other drivers lol. some road/hybird bikes are nice to have and are fast !
This is my fear.
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That sounds awful. It’s just such an added stress but I think it’s necessary to have if we require it to get around. It’s just very hard to remember we have limitations. I also wish I could trade my illness with something else but I probably would hate that too.
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Sorry this is such a late response. I didn’t pick up my phone nuch this week. No excuse I know.
I used to drive a friend of mine around and when I stopped driving she started for a while and I paid for everything. After a while I felt like it was a burden with her mentioning it and for me it honestly wasn’t worth the money to just go places with her if I was an obstacle. so we stopped hanging out. Now she stays home because she has no money to go out…
But I also just don’t have many friends. I’m a good person. Just weird or odd I suppose. So people like me until they get to know me and then they stop talking to me.
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Update: I started taking Latuda two weeks ago and I dive twice within this time. I really think this is the blend for me. I haven’t felt safe behind the wheel in years. Like anxiety to the point I’d get shaken up and angry if people talked about it. Then I just drove by myself twice to the store and around my cul de sac. Not far but I’m happy. I haven’t gone in over a week but it’s a start.
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Be safe! I hope you’re alright.
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When I say these things to people I know it’s always the same response. It is so refreshing to read the same things on this forum. I mean it’s awful. But I feel like we all understand each other. And that means something.
Yes very country. Also our town consists of a bunch of old timers. Everyone is still living in the 60s I feel so behind on the times. Rednecks with narrow minds. If they knew a schizo was their neighbour it would be the talk f the town 
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Awesome! I’m glad you found something that works!
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