Great article...thanks for sharing it.

I feel the same as Julie. She explains it very well. I don't have a car anymore because I drive so infrequently that it just didn't make sense for me to pay the cost each month to maintain a vehicle. I have access to the use of one if I need it and that's about 3 times a month. Sometimes not even that.

The strange part about it is that I don't miss it. I thought it would be so hard to accept and get used to. I find that I'm much more relaxed and don't get stressed as much as I used to. Days that I do drive......my stress level is noticeably higher. People are so impatient (I'm guilty of being that way too....pre-MS) and drive like they are frantic to get somewhere. I have to just ignore the unfriendly drivers and concentrate on my driving. And no radio! That part I do miss.

yeah, I have a bit of driving anxiety, but it's mostly for driving places that I dont know very well, or some weird reason, driving around large bodies of water, like a lake, or over a river. (that may be a leftover phobia from my older sister teasing me when I was 3 and saying she was going to throw me in whatever body of water we happened to be driving over while on a vacation)

I like Julie, she's the Guide for the MS site on About.com, there's a forum there, along with an archive of all her articles she's ever written since becoming the Guide for her site. I've been a member of her forum for several years now. (About.com also has some crafting sites too. I've been on their Crochet forum since the late 90s)

Julie has all sorts of great information on her site. I like the articles she writes. Lots of good stuff in them.

I tagged mine as anxiety because in 2001 I had a bad car accident. We were sitting at a red light stopped when a big truck rammed into us so hard, he put the back bumper against the back seat. my mother broke a bone in her neck, the airbags drove my DDs glasses into her face and eyes, I fractured my left wrist...I was overly cautious since then, but the anxiety doesnt match with the event. I see brake lights ahead and panic that no one else is going to stop in time, or I see a car coming up behind me when traffic is stopped and I am scared that they will not stop in time. Most cars zip right up to you and stop an inch from your bumper. I want more space!

This article gives me peace. Thank you for sharing.