Driving Fear

Driving Fear was ruining my life, always needing help, assistance and guidance, no one had much time to support me in other ways.

I felt like a freak in this fast moving world of automobiles, and those that drove them. My drivingfear was doing more than preventing me from being more independant, it was vanishing friends, family, even jobs out of my life. Looking back, it was almost like magic how things that I loved dissapeared and fast.

At first everyone was understanding, I had been in an accident in the rain, they could understand why I would be nervous. There are limits though and I filled most everone up to their ears with my limits. I quickly started to become hermited, calling in sick to work, telling friends that I was busy, even though all I had planned was absolutly nothing.

Maybe your driving fear is creating similiar situations for you. Maybe you reading this gives you insite to the future. One day I stopped and looked outside of myself and realized I really need to get this back under control. People that were helping, in some ways were just enabling me to not deal with it. I love all that supported me through this but what I love even more was that I was able to step back and realize that I needed to start supporting myself and take control back into my life.

I took to books and the internet like a bee to honey. I was so relieved to know that there were others out there that had this same challenge. I was more relieved to find out that they overcame it. There was hope and I needed to figure out my path.

The driving fear became more of a lesson in my life, I was the student and the test was everyday. The one book I wish more people had told me about was Drive Without Fear: The Insecure Driver's Guide to Independence. This was the first time that I was not only reading about others that had driving fear, but ways to remember how to take control back during lane changes, etc.

I also found it invaluable to learn more about how the brain works and its part in my driving fear. As they say knowledge is power and "they" are right!

If there was anything that I would like you to know it would be the following:

1. You are not alone

2. Fill yourself with knowledge

3. Find a support network for the positive that you are doing

4. The most important your independance is priceless, don't lose it.

I have been given so much help with my challenges and today I find it like second nature to drive anywhere anytime. It did not happen over night, but it sure did happen. I walk with my head high, because I know if I overcame driving phobia then I can do anything I desire.