tred816

I haven't had much opportunity to speak to others with OCD and wondered if anyone else had the same or a similar experience...

I never wanted my license, but back when I was 21, my ex-husband lost his license for D&D. I had no choice and went through Driver's Ed and eventually got my license. We lived in a small town so when we divorced and I moved back to the larger city I originally came from, I refused to drive there.

I spent 5 years petrified of driving. I would freeze behind the wheel(If I even got that far). People laughed at me, teased me, question why I wouldn't drive and I really had no rational understanding of it myself.

I am driving again now, but conquering the fear that caused such anxiety for so many years was my greatest achievement. I still have no clue what caused the fear/anxiety, but I'm thought I was crazy and so did a lot of other people when I registered for Driver's Ed again last year lol. I actually paid for it 2x in order to get over the fear. I'm fine now, bought a house in the country and drive everyday, in fact I love it. Go figure.

Every once in a while though, the anxiety returns. Meds have helped, but there's still the twinges once in a while...I'll have irrational thoughts that I might have hit someone or worry about impossible things happening, like someone I dropped off got their coat stuck in the door and I've been dragging them for miles etc...

Does anyone else have similar anxiety?