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Originally Posted by Blueberrybook
Driving makes me VERY anxious too. I mostly just drive very locally. For example, without traffic Houston can be as little as 20 min. drive away, but the freeways are CRAZY! I hate driving on them and haven't for 8 years or so. The only part of Houston I drive in is the NASA area which is really quite separate from most all of the rest of Houston, and you can get around on surface streets. Plus, my youngest sister lives in that area though she lives behind a giant busy shopping mall, I hate driving once I'm close to her house. A lot of my panic attacks/anxiety occurs while driving which is why I do as little of it as possible. I feel bad about it a lot, for example, I can't take my daughter to class meetups in downtown Houston, the Houston museum district, drive her out to Galveston. But H is very good about understanding FINALLy after years of him not getting it. And his work is pretty flexible; he is a professor, but it takes him 1.5 hr to drive each way to his university so he only goes in when he teaches Tuesday and Thursdays and sometimes for his grad students on Fridays, works from home the other days and takes off work to take my daughter to school events. My daughter is definitely his little princess for all that she's 17 already!
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Yeah I have to get driving on my own. My son is at a very different part of town and I have I get so anxious I have to pull over and I'm on the verge of a panic attack. You know shaking, sweating, fast heart rate etc. He was in a different place and I got it down to wear I had no problem getting there. He tells me it's easy but it's not.
I should have explained cbt like this: it's about changing your thoughts to then changing your feelings to then changing your behavior. I think I got that right anyway.