Honestly, no one gets it when I try to talk to them about my driving anxiety. People tell me that I need to practice everyday, be consistent, push through the anxiety, but it is not all that easy. I do practice everyday around the same time and I try my hardest but I am still so suffocated by anxiety. Every time after I come home from driving, I am in tears convinced that I came close to a car accident. Right now, I am just able to go around my block and down a side street. Today was like horrific- it was like all my fears happened in one. I had pedestrians walking on the side of the street and then cars parked on the side of the street. These two things induce the most anxiety in me because I am so convinced that I will hit a pedestrian or a car on the side of the street. I know what people say- go around the car! well, someone can tell that to me over and over again and it won't help. Then on top of that, I get significant anxiety when there is a car behind me because I am scared that they are thinking that I am going too slow or a danger on the road. I will say when I am in that extreme anxious state I probably am a danger but that's when I go on auto-pilot and head home. It is difficult because there are so many places I would like to go to, but this anxiety around driving is relentless. I thought that maybe I needed driving lessons but Ive already been through two driving schools and spent so much money. It's just the anxiety.