The fear of driving can be every bit as frightening as fear of flying. Clients who have come to me with driving phobia tell me their symptoms include the following:
- racing heart
- cold sweat
- a feeling of dread
- a feeling of impending doom
- panic
When they try to figure out what’s behind their phobia, they just can’t get to it. In my experience, fear of driving is often related to a particular event in the past that is causing the person more anxiety than they realise.
In a recent case, the client couldn’t think of any specific episode that might have caused her fear of driving. I then used a really effective hypnotherapy tool called The 7 Classic Causes of Symptoms to find out the cause of the phobia and also the age at which it began. When we discovered the age, the client was able to identify a scary incident that happened while she was preparing for her driver’s licence. She had repressed her feelings about the incident, but now the emotions could be acknowledged and released. By the end of the session she was smiling and ready to go for a drive!
If you or anyone you know is suffering from the fear of driving or a driving phobia, be assured that a competent hypnotherapist will be able to help you regain your freedom. If you are in the Cape Town area and you want to give hypnotherapy a try, be sure to contact me.
Resources
First prize in my opinion is always to see a therapist in person, but if you can’t you may want to try a self-hypnosis audio MP3. Remember to listen to it at least once a day for a few days. Here are two self-hypnosis MP3s that I recommend:
