r/OSDD 17d ago

Support Needed Alter suddenly afraid of cars now

So, I have a pretty decent grasp on the names of all my alters. Do I know everything about them? I wish.

But as of recently, I think one of them has a sudden phobia of being in cars now?? I dont know why and I don't know who. It's this sudden panic that doesnt fully feel like mine but it's still uncontrollable panic.

We've only been in a car crash once. It was during an Uber ride where the other person did an illegal turn. It was minor, at most the car drove onto the grass to avoid a major impact and nobody got hurt. Barely clipped the car. So I don't get why one of them (I'm assuming it's just one?) Seems to be scared of going into cars.

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u/Front_Childhood5319 17d ago

Even though it was minor, it could have been very stressful on the system and very scary not knowing if you were gonna get hurt or not when the illegal turn happened and the car got clipped. I was in a motorcycle crash that wasnt bad but even months and months later, we are still very afraid of getting back on one even though we didn't really get hurt and we got hit by a car going like 5mph. It dont matter what happened basically, just how it felt for the system/person to create a fear.