Here’s a good question I get asked a lot, what about anxiety medication for driving anxiety? Do I believe in it?

It’s a tricky question to answer, and I always first say to do whatever your doctor says because I’m not a physician (in case my lawyer has my phone tapped).

But here’s my opinion and experience…

Anxiety meds can be your best friend, or worst enemy, depending on how you use them.

What I don’t think is good is relying on meds exclusively to get you through your anxiety, for driving or anything else.

What I think they can be good for is to help you slow your anxiety down enough to learn skills like what I show you in the program that will help you permanently.

Do you NEED medication? I’ve seen enough people recover without it to say no. Can it make the recovery process more comfortable? Sure. Can it be abused and actually do more harm? Absolutely, and it usually does.

If you have a fear, and all you do it take a medication to cover it up, the fear is still there, it’s just got a blanket over it so you cant see or feel it. If that’s all you do, if and when you stop taking the meds (which you’ll have to do eventually or get addicted), you’ll be exactly where you were before. If you use them as a means to slowly pull the blanket back and expose more and more of your fear, that’s fine by me. Personally, I wouldn’t use meds for more than a few weeks because they can be very difficult to stop and cause more anxiety in the long run. Unfortunately, I rarely see that. I see them being used for months or years.

It’s like this. If you step on a tack, it’s going to take a lot of aspirin to make the pain go away. And even if it does, the tack is still there, whether you feel it or not. When the aspirin wears off, you can take more to relive the pain again, or you can be right back where you started. The treatment for a tack in the foot is to remove the tack. If you need some aspirin while it’s getting pulled out, I get that. But if you leave the tack in and expect it to go away on it’s own, you’re kidding yourself. That’s what the Driving Fear program does, it pulls the tack.

On another note, I know everyone is excited and curious about what’s I’m going to be releasing in the next few weeks that I’ve been mentioning. I can’t tell you what it is yet, so you can stop asking, but I will soon and like I said, it’s going to be really powerful stuff. Just hold tight.