Overcome Road Anxiety With Ride Drive

If you have ever experienced a panic attack when driving, be it on the motorway, or driving over bridges, you will not need anyone to explain to you how terrifying it is. In fact, once it has happened, you may become more scared of a panic attack than the fear of driving on the motorway.

At Ride Drive, we have become very experienced at helping people overcome the driving phobia associated with panic attacks when driving.

Being scared of driving is something we very much understand, because being scared of driving on the motorway, driving over bridges, or on any road for that matter, is a topic we have applied extensive research to. Therefore, we understand what a battle it is trying to overcome driving phobia.

Trying to cope with the threat of a panic attack through fear of driving on a motorway, for example, driving over bridges, or even driving down hills, can be hard.

Trying to cope with a panic attack when driving
is difficult in a car culture society

Living in a society that is so dependent upon the car, being overtaken by the effects of road fear to the point of having a panic attack when driving is a very difficult situation. However, you need to understand the behaviour you exhibit is something that you have learned. In short, the road fear you experience is habit.

To get out of one habit you have to learn new habit, but that doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a lot of hard work, patience and detirmination to achieve.

Trying to stop the panic attack when
driving by doing it on your own seldom works

Trying to follow a recovery programme to combat acute road fear is not something people tend to manage very well on their own. Ask anyone who has decided at some point to go on a self–monitored diet, and then ask how long it lasted? The reason most diets never continue is because of habit, and in the diet case, a lifestyle habit.

Habit is comfortable and breaking habit is not. It is basic animal behaviour to move away from discomfort, and to slot back into a pattern that is familiar, all the time justifying the reasons for doing so.

Addicted to Road Fear

You may hate your motorway phobia, your fear of driving over bridges or down hills, and you may hate having the panic attack when driving full stop, but if you think about it, you are comfortable that way.

If you doubt that statement, just try and break the habit to find out how uncomfortable it is. That is partly why people find it so hard to gain the level of motivation necessary to stand up and fight back against road fear.

To overcome the habit of road fear the commitment needs to be absolutely 100%. However, there will always be the devil on the shoulder opposite the angel on the other, with the voice of the little red guy with the toasting fork seeming to be much more tempting.

Providing anxious driver’s with support

Displacement activity will be a hugely attractive alternative, but for people who are trying to overcome road fear, if you are working with someone who is there to keep you motivated, to guide you and to make sure you stay with the programme, the chance of a successful outcome will be far greater.

You are going to need a great deal of support and you are also going to need a structured programme of recovery to follow, and remain well–disciplined to stay on track. This will not be easy, as the fear of a panic attack when driving is very powerful and manipulative.

Overcome Road Fear With Ride Drive

Throughout your time with us we focus on the overall objective, which is to reconcile the road fear you experience and therefore stop you from having a panic attack when driving. That means we have to desensitise your reaction to certain road environments, none of which is a quick process.

We can’t go into specifics here, but we do have a well–structured strategy for reducing the episode of panic attack when driving and so make driving in any environment easier.

We have carved ourselves a very respectable name in this field of work, and now believe our level of understanding and knowledge of acute road fear is at the leading edge of discovery. Ride Drive has a highly motivated and dedicated team are well equipped to help you as an anxious driver to overcome your particular road anxiety problem, and if we can’t. Well, we’ll be big enough to tell you — straight away.

We have helped many people overcome driving phobia, so we have empathy for what you are going through.

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Monday, 10-May-2010

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