Thank you so much for your post. I honestly can't remember having a traumatic experience that led to my driving phobia (although my mother was also driving-phobic), although I suspect it's related to the same problems I had on horseback: Fear of losing control and suffering terrible consequences as a result.

However, reading your reply really fills me with a lot of hope. When I see other people overcome their phobias, it makes me realize that I'm not the only person in the world who has this issue (sounds silly, probably, but sometimes I do feel that way!), and there's no reason I can't get over that fear, since others have!