Anxiety Support Group

So sorry to hear you feel that way....I can relate. Driving and traveling is a big anxiety for me--sor runnign away isnt the easiest thing to imagine. Being 'home' is usually 'safe', but when the anxiety hits--guess it doesnt matter where I am. sigh.
What do you do to feel better when you want to run away from home??
For me its reading (escape into the book) --or a book on cd and crafting.
Hope you feel better soon, hugs,
free

When I am in a high state of anxiety I got those feeling of running its like a fight or flight thing. I think of how I could just get in my car and drive. Up and leave everything Just RUN. Then the fear of the unknown always keeps me right where I am.

I DO! I want to get in my car and just drive....throwing my cell phone out the window. I have this urge to just quit! KNOW what I mean. I have too much going on and only my Mom knows what I am going through.

Life sucks most of the time for me. So I understand.

I have these thoughts all the time.. I am always telling my family that if I ever dissapear that it wasn't foul play... If I had no children I would of uprooted along time ago.
I can't drive, barely talk to anyone and there is no way I would even look for a job. Keep your head up. I just joined here and i see how many people really care about each other. We will overcome..

I have these thoughts often. I want to just jump in a car and go until the gas runs out and start over.

I get like that too. I sometimes want to run away from myself, my mind. I also sometimes just don't want to exist anymore. Not kill myself, but just like fade away...

I have felt that way many times but somehow always managed to survive those feelings. I also know what it's like to not want to leave the house. It's all I can do to be able to go out when I have to. I hope you begin to feel better soon.

Because we were all built with an automatic defense system that our elders used back in the days of fighting large woolly elephants we have this system that takes over and makes us want to run away. I have lived in the same town for years but after I developed anxiety I could no longer drive down the freeway, go to public places, had a difficult time going to work, and I started confining myself to the house and eventually I confined myself to my bedroom each day. I finally talked to a professional mental health consultant because I didnt want to live my life this way and I enjoy concerts way too much to be locked up in my room. She has really helped me to understand that anxiety is a really good liar. I still get anxiety and I still get panic attacks but I am no longer confined to house and I can drive down the freeway again. I had to take baby steps. The best thing to do is get out of your patterns. Make yourself a little uncomfortable. Make a goal and move yourself to that goal and then make another goal once you conquer that. My bedroom is still my safe place but if you can take baby steps without the risk of causing grief to yourself I would encourage doing so. I just went to my first concert again last month. It was somewhat difficult but I have pushed myself and I think the benefit has been that I was free to choose what I wanted to do instead of my anxiety controlling me.

I feel this way often. Sometimes I take off for 4 or 5 hours in my car and just head AWAY until I can get myself together enough to come back.
The thing is, you can't run away from yourself. When you get where you are going, you will still be there.
I think what freeat50 said is true, find some "escapism" in a movie or book or an activity that keeps you focussed away from your anxiety for a few hours. At least then you won't have a long drive back!

I always feel like running away. Then I think where will I go? Once I did run away. Back then instead of going to work one day I boarded a plane and flew from Tampa, Florida to Knoxville, TN. Thought I would visit a friend who I chatted with on the internet. Almost was killed by that person. Almost lost my husband and family because of it. I will never do that again. Still have the strong desire to run, but staying put where it is safer.
Sharon