Being in a car gives me the worst anxiety every time. It started from one day during last summer where I felt nauseous while in a car (I have emetophobia, aka the fear of vomit. but this anxiety has gone beyond that phobia, that’s just what started it).

Since then, every time I go in a car I get terrible anxiety. For the longest time I even convinced myself that I somehow have motion sickness even though I’ve never had it in my life. It’s that feeling of being trapped and not being able to leave that gets me. So now if I’m in a car for longer than five minutes, I’ll get nauseous and even sometimes get diarrhea. Which made it even worse, so now I get anxious about getting anxious because I’m afraid that from that I’ll get diarrhea in the car.

I don’t know what to do but I want to stop this. I want to be able to go on road trips or even 30 minutes to the store without literally shaking in my seat.