Does anyone else get anxiety when driving, especially in heavy traffic? I enjoy driving at night when there’s no one out but during the day it is very stressful. Unfortunately I live in an area where driving is necessary to go anywhere.
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I’m the opposite. I prefer driving during the day when I can see best
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I prefer daytime driving, as my night vision has gone downhill the last few years.
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I think my anxiety stems from the amount of other cars on the road rather than the time of day. More variables to go wrong. I hate making left turns (in the US) without the arrow in busy traffic.
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I have a lot of anxiety when it comes to driving or being a passenger of a car. Especially when i’m the passenger. I don’t like the feeling of being out of control. I’ve had a couple of car accidents in which i was driving, and i have a little PTSD from it i guess. I hate driving in the car, but i prefer night driving as there are fewer cars on the road.
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It didnnt used to be so bad but now at 54 its horrid. I hate driving and even with my wife driving (shes a very good driver) i still get uber anxious and feel often like I have to hold on for dear life when in reality i prob dont have to.
I do not like driving at night due to the deer and bears.
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I have lots of anxiety surrounding driving.
I especially have a hard time driving by myself, I basically go as far as 4 minutes away from my house when I’m driving by myself.
I don’t drive at night as I have difficulty with night vision
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I stopped driving in July, due to my mental illness. I had one too many near accidents, and then my car broke down and left me stranded until my insurance sent a tow. That clinched it. Now I don’t drive at all. I either rely on my husband or friend, or I always have cab fare with me.
I normally don’t leave the house unaccompanied, but I have to walk a mile each way to get my teeth cleaned at the dentist this afternoon. I am terrified, but I can’t ask my husband to take time off work to take me, and a mile is too short to call a cab. Ugh!! I hate this illness!!
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I would love to enjoy driving again, but it´s been a while I don´t drive. I would need a couple of lessons first I think
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I dont drive. I can do it but it makes me way too a xious and im just bad at it. My attention span reqlly sucks
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I did it! I walked to the dentist’s office and back, and got my teeth cleaned! I hallucinated a lot of the walking time, and was totally freaked out and dissociative at the dentist, but I did it, and I got a good report. All that extra brushing and flossing paid off - I had a horrible cleaning called a debridement done six months ago, and I am NEVER going through that again. I would rather take the effort to brush twice a day and floss every day. It’s a pain, but that procedure traumatized me for life.
Little victories. I will never be able to drive myself there and back, but I did get out of the house on my own and do it today anyway.
Like Moon said, I am way too anxious (and dissociative), and I am a bad driver. I finally took responsibility and took myself off the road. I have said it before here, but I have both bipolar sza as well as multiple personality, and that combination just does not allow me to drive safely. I actually consider it a victory that I can admit that now, not a defeat because I can’t drive. I live a mile’s walk from a grocery store, I can work my confidence and endurance back up to manage that. For other stuff, that’s why they invented taxis. Uber scares me but I can do taxis.
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