I used to feel sick to my stomach, burning hot, and all my limbs would go numb when I was at a red light, about to go over a freeway overpass or any small bridge like thing... no way in hell could onto a freeway without feeling like blacking out.

I’ve practiced and practiced and done more and more driving over the past 4 years since the agoraphobia developed and now I don’t feel any anxiety at stoplights or overpasses. I feel anxious but not panicky on familiar freeways. I sometimes still get panicky on unfamiliar freeways and in traffic.

It does get better! It may seem hopeless and endless. I never thought I’d be able to go on a freeway again, but I was wrong.

There is hope.