fear of cars

[SomethingFundy]

Lately I have had a phobia of cars. I went to an organic food store in Brentwood Mo for my STL peeps on here and the entire time I was oh God i am going to get in a car wreck.

I wasnt doing anything wrong and I havent had this happen in such a long time

anyone else get a car phobia?

[aisforazebra]

Not quite a phobia, but I was in a pretty bad accident a few months ago (car was totalled; I somehow had nothing worse than a couple of sprains), and it's affected my driving. I mean, I can drive fine. I'm not afraid to. But every time I'm coming up to an intersection, I think, what if there's a car coming at me and I don't see them till it's too late? (this is what happened in the accident; I was turning left and there was a car coming in the opposite direction that I didn't see)

Sometimes I will sort of "feel" the impact of the crash. Not really physically feel it, but remember it very vividly. That happens a lot while driving and it bothers me quite a bit.

I don't really have any advice. I tell myself that if I just keep driving, it'll eventually get better. And in the meantime, at least I am more cautious now!

[Phatchick]

I know exactly how you feel. I'm a nervous driver at the best of times and I don't handle stress all that well so when my license lasped a few years ago, I never got it renewed. For me, it's less of an issue since I'm a city girl who lives where there's a bus system that gets pretty much anywhere I need to go.

[elfdream]

I used to be that way. I was almost agoraphobic and didn't want to go anywhere. It was almost a traffic phobia. I got better but it started slowly by taking short drives here and there and gradually increasing them. I still can't drive on the interstate though.