I was in my first car accident two days ago. It really wasn’t anything special just got hit on the back of my car. It’s still drives perfectly fine and no one is hurt. I know that it wasn’t that bad I’ve been told that already 100 of times and I keep trying to tell myself it could be worse but this just spiked my anxiety to  the max.

I’m 18 and it took me two years to start driving. I had dealt with driving anxiety. It was so extreme that I thought the only solution was to speak with a therapist, the only problem is that I can’t afford one. I tried and tried again until I was pretty much forced into it. I was starting college and there was no one to give me rides since everyone was busy. So despite my anxiety I had to drive to get to my classes and it actually went pretty good!

And I was getting confident. I was starting to not feel scared and I called myself a good driver. And then I got into a car accident. The woman immediately got out of her car and yelled at me. I was freaking out it was a scary situation. She kept yelling for a couple minutes and later calmed down but honestly not to sound like a giant pussy but her yelling affected me. 

Now I have to get back into driving but I can’t stop playing the event over and over and over again. I am getting back into my anxiety. I avoid going out unless I have to. Does anyone have any tips?