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I’ve been driving for a little over a year…I only drove once on the interstate&that was with the instructor in drivers ed a year ago.
Well I just turned 20 and still haven’t plucked up the courage to learn to drive, irresponsible friends having minor crashes all over the place has been offputting. I’m just afraid I’ll completely blank through fear & crash or end up driving around the same roundabout until 2010 because I’m too afraid to turn off into the traffic. So do the instructors have complete control to prevent any fear related mishaps?
I am having a really bad one at the moment and it feels like I can’t breathe properly. My chest and throat are so tight they are suffocating me and my heart is racing. I also can’t stop the tears from falling.
Just wondered if anyone has any good suggestions that may help, I seem to be getting more and more of them and they get worse. I feel so silly.
I am suffering from PTSD (complex traumas), Chronic Grief & Chronic Depression.
Sorry and Thanks
I have to get on a plane for an hour on Sunday, it’s a small plane, about a private plane’s size.
I’m EXTREMELY scared of flying, my nerves get so bad & I have to take pills to calm me down & sleep.
But I have too much to do on Sunday, so I can’t be sleeping from medication.
What things can I do to help get over my fear of flying?
I like an house north of our major city, Atlanta, and I have this huge fear of driving on the interstate. I do ok if someone else drives, but if a big truck goes right beside on either side I freak out. & if 2 get on either side at the time I practically hold my breath until there is an opening again. Everything seems so close to the vehicle though. When I use mapquest, I always use the avoid highways option and go the longer route. Any suggestions?
first i will tell you I am a very shy person!When I signed up for college for the first time,the advisor placed me in a public speaking class.As soon as she told me,I about freaked out,she knew i was a little worried from the look on my face,But she assured me that people who are shy like I was had the same fears I did,and ended up doing well in the class!i knew I wasnt going to drop the class,cause i knew I would have to take it sooner or later My 2nd day of class they made us pick a partner & ask them questions.Then we had to go up in front of the class & introduce eachother.I had a few minutes to prepare myself before my partner & I went up.When it was our turn I wanted to go 1st so i could get my part out of the way!I told the class my partners name,where she was from, and when i got to the 3rd thing I suddenly got HOT and my insides started SHAKING, it was almost to the point of TEARS! I continued on, I don’t think no one noticed, But I got thru it. anyone in a similar situation?
I never faced this in highschool. I would always happen to miss a day we had to speak in class!, But this is college and I want to do well!
Ok so i am in Forensics [like a drama club/Public Speaking] But i am really nervous in front of crowds and when i am nervous i cant talk right. There is a meeting tommorow and i am once again nervous. We have to be put into groups and make up a skit on the spot & preform to the class. We are going to pick a peice [like a very short part of a play, skit, or poem and act it out later on in the year which is our competttion] I dont know what to do…Should i go tommorow, and if you say yes do you have any tips to overcome my fear? 10 points for most detailed and helpful answer. THANK YOU.
So basically my story starts around 3 months ago, i got off work & to my suprise my mom bought me a car! it wasn’t brand new or anything it was a 2001 nissan sentra, pearl grey, i loved it but even though i am 19, i didn’t have my license yet, in fact i had never been behind the wheel, but i conquered my fear and took driver’d ed and my instructor was impressed told my i was a natural. I arranged to get my license the following monday but later on that day i decided i should get some practice and wrecked it in a parking lot on my way to work. Horrible, worst day of my life cost me 00 to replace the bumper and some new parts ridiculous, 1 month later my sister got into an accident of her own, i was with her so you can imagine how traumatized i am, unbelieveably 2 weeks later after picking my sister up from work it starts STORMING outside (p.s im for mew orleans, below sea level) my sisters driving and she drove us right into a pool sized puddle that floods my car not to the point of
totaled, but now im terrified of driving i’ve been in 3 accident in the past 3 months and it seems that it happend everytime i decided to drive on my own.
people are always zooming around me and im completely paranoid the whole time, i drive like a paranoid patty & i have a lot of thing to take car of in the morning but i don’t know if i have the balls, yet this defeats the purpose of having a car, i dont know what to do…
Firstly, thankyou everyone for your imput, i just want remind those of you who answered that i only caused one of these accident i was just in all 3 of them which i why im so scared to drive. im not a bad driver im just paranoid i drive slow which is why people are always zooming around me but they need to deal im not risking another accident!
I like an house north of our major city, Atlanta, and I have this huge fear of driving on the interstate. I do ok if someone else drives, but if a big truck goes right beside on either side I freak out. & if 2 get on either side at the time I practically hold my breath until there is an opening again. Everything seems so close to the vehicle though. When I use mapquest, I always use the avoid highways option and go the longer route. Any suggestions?