How do I get over the anxiety after a wreck that was my fault
About a year and a half ago, (I had been driving for 6 months at most at the time) I rear ended someone. it was an unfortunate accident but at the end of the day, I didn’t realize that the person in front of me had come to a complete stop, and rear ended them, and that was my fault. Luckily no one was hurt and I was in a Kia soul and they were in a big truck so I totaled my car of course but luckily didn’t cause major damage to their truck. Since then I have terrible anxiety about driving. At the beginning it was so bad that I couldn’t even ride in cars without being very anxious. I have driven occasionally since then (literally just around town if no one was available to drive me and I had a car available to borrow) when absolutely needed but every single time I do drive I am shaking uncontrollably, so much that I sometimes have to switch to cruise control just to keep a steady pace, because my legs are shaking so much that I can’t keep the gas pedal steady. and afterwards it would take me a while to regulate my anxiety and feel normal again. I’ve come here to ask if anyone else has been through something similar, and what they did to help the anxiety. I know I can’t rely on other people to drive me everywhere, and I want the freedom of driving myself back when I do have the money for a car again, but I can’t shake the fear of getting in another wreck. What can I do to help it? Thanks in advance for any advice