Hi everyone, I've had severe depression all my life but occasionally something works for awhile. Right now nothing is working (meds, therapy, exercise, light box, vitamins) I get depressed just typing out everything not working. Last December I was in a very bad accident, a jerk speeding hit me very hard, pushed me across three lanes of traffic, up over a hard curb and almost into a tree. However, since I was making a left turn, he was not ticketed. But he was joking around with the cops afterward which led me to see that he knew the cops and that's why he wasn't ticketted.

Anyway, for a full year my fear of driving has escalated. I am almost afraid to even get in the car, and I am a mom who constantly has to be driving. I also live in a huge metropolitan area where traffic is some of the worst in the country and have no way of moving. My husband is gone 13 or so hours a day and he helps alot in driving when he is here but can't that much.

But my chronic depression came long before this, it's just that this new anxiety/phobia/whatever is making the depression so much worse. As I've said the therapist doesn't help at all. I already take mild anxiety drugs and they help minimally. Has anyone out there gone through this and made it through? It has also made my depression in the house much worse, I sit on the couch for hours each day and can't even make myself do housework.