With driving anxiety disorder, we make ourselves unnecessarily anxious with our disaster-oriented, irrational thoughts about the future. We tend to assume these thoughts are “true,” when in fact they’re just thoughts. Learn how to change anxious feelings about driving by changing your thoughts with these positive affirmations for anxiety. Chronic […]
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Living with driving anxiety can make life miserable. It certainly made mine that way…for years! I absolutely hated it. The other day, I was looking back (none too fondly, either) on all the ways I used to suffer when I drove. Here are the top 10 things I (used to) […]
Sometimes it’s easy to rationalize living with a fear of driving. There are so many tricks, so many little ways to get around it. Sometimes these little strategies are useful coping mechanisms, but sometimes they’re just rationalizations that keep you from facing the truth: Living with an untreated fear of […]
Now I understand why I suffered from a fear of driving for all those years! It’s partly due to my free floating anxiety. My doctor said something recently that made my jaw drop. It was one of those things that’s so obvious it never occurs to you. He had just […]
You know you get anxious driving. But did you know that driving anxiety is a form of agoraphobia? Learn more about the hidden connection between agoraphobia and driving. Agoraphobia, literally “fear of the marketplace,” is more commonly translated as a fear of open spaces. But I like the definition below better […]
Are procrastination and fear of failure keeping you stuck in your efforts at driving anxiety recovery? The secret is, you may just need to give yourself permission to fail. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the […]
Anxiety Driving on Highways is One of the Most Common Forms of Driving Anxiety, But Avoiding Highways is Not the Answer It even looks intimidating, doesn’t it? It’s like a giant steel river, and every vehicle is a twig being swept along in a raging current. No wonder anxiety about driving on highways […]