In order for you to overcome your driving phobia, you need to first realize and understand that this particular fear of yours is indeed illogical or irrational. It is true that traffic accidents can happen, but it only does to a small number of people and even though you got involved in one before, there is a very low probability that it will happen again.
The moment you come to this realization that your fear of driving a car is illogical, you can then start to find a way in terms of how to overcome it. There is this approach that you can try to fight it. This method involves two parallel processes.
The first one is for you to realize that this fear of yours actually has two factors. The fear of actual driving and the fear of what it will most likely make you feel or simply put, you are afraid of experiencing the symptoms of fear and not the driving itself.
There is a certain cycle to it. Your driving anxiety is brought about by your fear of a phobic attack and that is what’s preventing you from taking the necessary steps to fix it. In order for you to start overcoming this irrational fear of yours, you must be prepared and eager to face how driving makes you feel.
This way, you can stop feeding this fear of yours and in turn deal with the true issue at hand. As for the next process, you need to take small steps and start facing your fear. This can be accomplished by incrementally driving longer distances and tackling the exact things with regards to driving that terrifies you.
For example, if you are afraid of driving over bridges, you can have someone else on board while you do it. Next time, try a much shorter bridge and drive alone, then a bigger bridge, then a longer one and so on. Slowly, you will find that this demon that you were so afraid of is really not that bad after all. With this you will realize that this fear of driving of yours is truly irrational.
