My past success meets my new problem

[Guest guest]

I overcame my driving issues (panic) thanks to ACT. I was agoraphopic,

and now I drive to the beach, visit friends, go everywhere. Once I

could not even bear to drive around the block. Thank you

and all of those who contributed to this workbook. I thank you daily! I

am a 35 year old woman living her life now.

So I have a new thing now. Intersections. If I get the stop light, I

get a very strong impulse to step/run outside of my car. I mean it is

intense, and overwhelms me. I sort of chuckle at myself, no way am I

getting out of my car, clearly a bit of claustrophobia here or

impatience. Any thoughts on how to deal with this? It keeps cropping up.

I also found while at the beach and crossing a busy road, I felt

inclined to jump in front of cars. That did scare me and I locked up a

bit. Here's the deal, I love life, living and so on. I do feel a bit

trapped in a bad relationship but I'm doing things to " free " myself

from that illusion and getting a life. Any thoughts?

Thanks so much, this is the one place I know people understand me.

A.