{"id":175779,"date":"2025-12-05T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:08:07","slug":"why-im-terrified-of-motorways-even-though-ive-been-driving-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/175779\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I&#8217;m terrified of motorways even though I&#8217;ve been driving for 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A turning point for Mary came when she realised her driving anxiety was limiting what she could do with her children. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they&#8217;ve got older they increasingly go to different places, and public transport is not always a practical way to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There have been times when I&#8217;ve said &#8216;you can&#8217;t make that play date&#8217;, and I&#8217;ll feel really bad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;By motorway, we could go in 22 minutes, but when we get public transport, it&#8217;s going to take two hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her 14-year-old daughter asked her why she couldn&#8217;t just &#8220;lock in&#8221; and drive, even offering help with directions, forcing Mary to explain that she just couldn&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now, ahead of turning 50 next year, she plans to take motorway lessons, partly to set an example to her daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I need to crack this fear, I would love to be able to drive on a motorway without feeling I am about to die.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A turning point for Mary came when she realised her driving anxiety was limiting what she could do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-175779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}