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The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

EP 0055 - Overcoming The Fear of Panic While Driving - With Billy from Anxiety United

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Billy and I discuss driving anxiety, the fear of having a panic attack while driving, and what to do about it. We talk about specific steps that can be taken to address this fear and overcome it through exposure and cognitive restructuring. Comments and questions welcomed as always! My Links https://theanxioustruth.com/links Intro/Outro Music: "Afterglow" by The Ben Drake Collective. Used with permission. Find Ben Drake on Facebook or at bendrakemusic.com. Se...

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0:00.0

The We are recording. We are recording. Okay, we are back. Guess who's back? We're

0:19.2

back. Drew here that anxiety guy dot com join once again by my good friend Mr Billy

0:27.2

Wiz Billy Cross what's going on bell I'm good I'm good it's good to be back

0:32.0

it's how long has it been it's been over a year I think long

0:35.2

It's possible that the last time we did this was a year. It's possible. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we did the 20 episodes in the 101 series, and we've discussed, like bringing something

0:45.9

else to the front.

0:46.9

So tell the people what we're going to do, man.

0:50.4

Tell the people we're going to do today.

0:51.4

Okay, so here's what we think we're going to do. Let me get these stupid glasses. I'm going to put them on and off because I can't read without them, but anyway. So what we're going to do is, we're sort of kind of just continue the 101 series, but we're going to do how do I this will be our how do I series so as

1:06.8

opposed to just talking about concepts which we talked a lot about in the last

1:10.8

series right we will talk about like the nuts and bolts of how to actually do things. How do I start driving? How do I learn to be home alone? How do I go back to work? How do I I will have a whole series of these you know I

1:24.8

think we want people to suggest topics as we go so this one we're gonna cover

1:29.8

the how do I start driving again after It's a common question and you see it pop up all the time.

1:37.0

It is.

1:38.0

So many people have dry.

1:39.0

I had serious driving anxiety so you know it's like a topic that that's near my heart but near and dear to my heart

1:45.6

you never had that problem though I've got a do you want me to go with my point I've been I think let's start with your unique

1:57.8

so it's a really strange one because I have had I can picture like three major panic attacks that I've had driving okay in the past like coming up to a roundabout here in the UK. I was going on

2:05.0

holiday came up to a roundabout, full-blind panic, couldn't breathe, it was

2:08.0

really sunny. Yeah, and the heat in the car was just making me. So I took a detour, pulled over, just sat there,

2:14.6

rode it out, like there was nothing I could do, I was 100 miles from home.

2:17.6

Yeah. So I had that panic attack and then I've had it in the past again.

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