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Old Jun 01, 2024, 05:19 PM
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I had a lazy day. Spent most of the day reading. Now I've finished all my library books, and the library is closed until Monday. Boo. I should have gone this morning, but it was raining, and I didn't feel like driving in the rain.

I hate to drive. Does anyone else here get driving anxiety? I'm not a very good driver; bipolar messes a lot with my concentration while driving. If I can do one thing at a time I'm fine, but multi-tasking is so hard for me especially when you've got to concentrate on the road in front of you, idiotic drivers, the speedometer, the rearview mirror, and you are constantly having to focus on each one in turn. I can't multi-task much at all, and driving is different from multi-tasking on things in the house where the outcome is not potentially costly, fatal, etc. It doesn't help that I've been in several fender benders of my out fault and once totaled a car (though thankfully no-one was hurt). I get very panicky a lot and often have full-blown panic attacks driving in areas where I can't easily quickly pull over to calm down. I really wish driving did not affect me this way.
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