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[quote=Anonymous]I also suffer from this.  Mine began back in 2013 or so when I was unknowingly injured by prescribed Ativan. It gravely injured my central nervous system. When I would drive my car my mental bearings would shift and I would perceive the road ahead of me as going straight down vertically.  It was terrifying.  I had to stop driving on the freeways. The stress of driving over 30 mph brings that type of anxiety on. Over the years that has gradually subsided and I am grateful. In 2019 I was traveling over the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and that same horrifying perception was threatening me and I was struggling with everything I had not to pass out behind the wheel. I am no longer able to drive across bridges. Just yesterday I had to have my husband and his co-worker meet me on the Tacoma side of the Narrows Bridge so my husband could drive me over it into Gig Harbor to visit my daughter and grandbaby, and then his co worker followed us over and drove my husband back over the bridge to work.  What a GD hassle this thing creates.  My husband is a living saint. I spent the day at my daughter's house with our little grandbaby and decided to take her and the baby to do some shopping in town.  I only got a couple miles down the road and had to have my daughter drive because the thoughts of driving into opposing traffic along the two-lane road was increasing in intensity.  I just told her I was getting nervous driving - she is aware that I have trouble driving over the bridge but this other thing - the intrusive thoughts to drive off the edge - I didn't tell her about.  I am so pissed off that I have developed this disorder. Prior to 2013 I never lived in fear of anything - certainly not driving.  This threatening urge to drive off the edge or into oncoming traffic really feels like it is coming from outside of myself.  [/quote]

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