Im Caroline on the other side of the pond. Down to doing everything for her parents and havbeen confident.

Very heart touching and emotional. I am totally blind and ride buses every day. Never heard of a driving phobia but I am not surprised. I am sure that their are people out their who are afraid of driving cause of this same situation. I am a business owner and a working pianist. It allows me to take the bus to work. I always loved riding the bus and it started back in preschool when I an over an hour and a half to and from school each way. An hour and a half by bus going and coming. I got to know what riding the bus was going to bee like. Now, getting on the bus and riding it to travel and or commuting to work is nothing for me. People ask me all the time if I am scared to ride the bus alone and I ask why should I bee. Especially riding the greyhound alone at night. I telll people that it is not impossible. You just have to do it. Get out their and do it. Many people are inspired by my thinking and Independant’s. Even some sighted people are very scared to get on a bus alone and do stuff like that but it is not hard to do. Probably cause I been doing it all my life and it all started with that bus trip I took back in preschool.

But what if you have a fear of heights and have no idea how or when or why it started?  
That's me.  One day I was fine, the next day, terrified, with no significant event in between.

I am 51 and don’t feel confident driving any more - used to be for years I could’nt drive for longer then 30 minutes, now i hate the thought of driving anywhere and have to drive to work so i hope this doesn’t get any worse! My hubby thinks i have lost my confidence, i don’t really go anywhere or meet up with friends any more as we have a lot going on my end at the mo, this makes me sad as i have lovely friends which thankfully are good friends and totally understand I have a lot going on at the moment.

Got my first panic attack episode driving on a quite high bridge, it was 14 years ago. From the moment on I've been living with this problem. I've had therapy, tried exposure therapy (in a context of psychoterapy with a specialists who followed me). Unfortunately I have to say that I haven't overcome this problem, at least up to now. I'm 51, I  was 37 when the thing happened and until then I really had had a live full of driving everywhere until that moment.....  

Since the beginning of this new life, because that thing change my live, I've always felt like I was totally a rare specimen of a man with the weirdest fear, and always surrounded by people who, of course, don't have any problem going everywhere.  So, you really like you're the alien, exactly you! And how many time I asked myself...why me?

Honestly I'm one of those who really feel ashamed for problem I have.

I have to say the seeing this is a "well-known" problem and there are other people who have the same problem I have, well it means something to me. It's not of course, that I'm happy because they have it, it's that at least I can see myself not as someone has something really strange,  mysterious and uncurable

I need help with this 😢 i freak out with the thought of it

Have the same fear have a fear of heights but the more i avoided bridges mountains cliff roads multi story car parks anything higher than the second floor of a building or hotel fly overs 27 years i avoid all these at all costs which  probably makes the fear worse and i dont know what caused it i actually fly once before the anxiety started like i dont fear the places maybe the height side because my brain is saying danger quick escape fast  but its the anxiety sensations i fear most the dizziness fast heart rate  panic feel like your going to faint dont feel grounded thats why avoid them all costs even the thought of going near them triggers the anxiety