Causes of Panic Attack While Driving - Do You Experience It?

By Garyl Hany

Do you experience high anxiety while driving? This is probably the most common situation where people suffer from high anxiety disorder. There are just too much that would happen during the whole course of the ride. In fact, the number of accidents in road is significantly high across America. However, you should not let your anxiety conquer the way you live your life. Otherwise, you will have high risk to panic attacks.

High anxiety while driving can be traced back from different fears. The most common fear is the fear of a panic attack during the course of the ride. If you had experience panic attack before, you will have higher risk to have another panic attack again. This is because your brain is already programmed that you are vulnerable to it and that the panic attack experience was not very pleasing. In other words, you are already traumatized about it.

High anxiety disorder can be associated with fear of causing a collision. This in turn triggers anxiety or panic attack. The highest anxiety usually happens at the crossroads where the other cars might cross immediately and cause collision. In some cases, the anxiety is originated from fear of hitting a pedestrian. This fear originates from experience however sometimes the fear is implanted through media and press.

Another fear that creeps within you is the fear of colliding. You might collide to a tree, car, truck, and building. You might even hit someone in the road. Everything is possible however don't let this stop you. Look at the other side of coin and see that it is also possible that the road is very safe during your trip. This fear is common to almost everyone with high anxiety disorder. As media and press constantly influence our lives, we are implanted with a wrong notion that collision is so common and cannot be prevented.

You may also have a fear of traffic: the crazy long lines of cars, the noises of the engines, the screaming of the people and too much commotion. It is really a stressing experience and just by thinking about it you might get stressed out.

More so, you might develop fear if you had bad experience at your office and your boss had screamed at you because you are late due to traffic. The traffic may also cause hyperventilation and fear is created because there is no instant support for you. - 30415

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