Anxiety - I have add anxiety/ panic attacks for over 25 years. It will come and go. I can get thru?

... the panic attack by doing my breathing, self talk, and I have a few other coping mechanisms I use.

I would say for the last 9 months, I am getting a lot of anxiety in the car and some times I will have panic attacks. Sometimes as a passenger when it happens, I want to get out, but obviously that’s tough sometimes when there is no where to pull over. Which makes my panic even worse. Normally as a passenger with my wife driving. Today it happened on the way home from my son’s baseball game with me driving with my wife. Our son wasn’t with us. It is a 5 minute drive.

I got a strong feeling that something is going to happen like I am not getting enough air or I might choke or I might have a seizure. Obviously, during it I think the worst, but now we are home and it’s at night and I feel ok. We were in our neighborhood and I pulled over twice and got out for a like a minute and then I drove the rest of the way home. I know nothing like the symptoms I mentioned will actually happen, but I don’t know that during. I never choked or had a seizure in my life.

I do have medicine I take when we go on a trip and have to drive. My wife will drive. During the trip I am on my phone or my computer or watching a movie or maybe sleeping.

I did have a bad car accident in 2023 where someone ran a red light and totaled my car. I had to go to the hospital but I was ok. The police were surprised I wasn’t hurt worse than I was when they saw my car. Then last year, I was behind a car that was turning left and there was car coming the other direction, but the car in front of me turned in front of the car and the car avoided the car turning left. but hit me. Again my car was totaled and I had to go to the hospital, but I ended up being fine.

I know you are going to think that’s why my anxiety is worse in the car. Though before the accidents I have always had trouble in the car.

It makes me upset, but I have no idea how to over come the anxiety/panic when in the car. I will still go places and try not to let it control my life.

Any advice would be great