This is my story, my anxiety triggered when I first started work and in the last 2 years I have had about 5 attacks. At first I did not know what was it, I went to a few docs and they told me off that im having food allergy. After sometime, it disappeared and I did not have it for a few months and eventually I never thought of it.

I only found out that what I’m having is actually called anxiety last year. The worst experience of mine and it is still affecting me till today is when I had a full blown anxiety attack while driving, I thought I was going to die that day. I pushed myself but I was not able to continue, therefore decided to stop and call my friend for help. After the incident I took a month break from driving whereby I totally did not drive at all. Ever since then, I’m having a tough time with driving. I’m not sure what is wrong with my brain as I used to enjoy driving and even drive outstation alone last time but now I’m so afraid to drive on the highway. Each time I drive more than 5km I can feel the abnormality in my breathing and I tend to turn back.

These actually happen 4 months ago and up to today I’m still facing this problem. I can see that slowly im going into depression due to this issue and im having sleepless nights thinking about it. Due to the sleepless nights, every morning when I go to work I have terrible head pain, dozing off and lack of focus. I’m actually thinking now whether should I give up my job and concentrate on recovering myself. I’m not sure whether this is the right decision. I seriously don’t know how I am going to recover my driving. Appreciate the advice from the members here.