[cutbuddie]

Anxiety is one of the disorders I've been recently diagnosed with. I'm having a really tough time dealing and controlling it. I mostly have anxiety when I'm in car (not driving), but I'm the passenger and I have no control over the driving and I get super scared and tense and the feeling like we're going to crash or slide on the ice. Most recently, I was skidooing with my sister and I was the passenger, she was driving, and I was freaking out and tense and scared. I felt like we were going to crash or I was going to fall off. Not so much when we're going slower but going any faster triggers the anxiety.
I feel out of control and I don't know how to control the feeling of anxiety. Any help or tips about this? Please.

Hello again, cutbuddie. Does your treatment team know you continue to have problems dealing with anxiety?

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[IceCreamKid]

I think it is possible that there are therapy programs that address specific fears like you have described. You can ask your doctor to help you find one. You didn't say what kind of terrain you are traveling on, if it is icy mountainsides that's one thing, but if it is suburban side streets, another. For the short term, you could try planning your route to be what you consider the safest streets, and wearing your seat belt, etc. These are rational approaches to what you consider to be an unsafe situation. I realize you will still have the fear (although perhaps this will lessen it to some extent) but the reality will be that you have made yourself as safe as possible while traveling in a vehicle. You can do these things before you get therapeutic help. I hope this helps you in the short term. I send you

[babygirl2201028]

Originally Posted by IceCreamKid

I think it is possible that there are therapy programs that address specific fears like you have described. You can ask your doctor to help you find one. You didn't say what kind of terrain you are traveling on, if it is icy mountainsides that's one thing, but if it is suburban side streets, another. For the short term, you could try planning your route to be what you consider the safest streets, and wearing your seat belt, etc. These are rational approaches to what you consider to be an unsafe situation. I realize you will still have the fear (although perhaps this will lessen it to some extent) but the reality will be that you have made yourself as safe as possible while traveling in a vehicle. You can do these things before you get therapeutic help. I hope this helps you in the short term. I send you

try not to let it overcome you other wise it could become a bigger worse problem, I hope you get better and find the help you need