Finding you way around new places - Driving/walking.

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Hi guys, just me.

How do you guys fair with finding your way around new places? I really struggle with this one.

Driving ... even with a GPS, if I go to the next town that has more than one lane with exist here and there, I always seem to miss the turn offs ... Even with a GPS, I am still panicky. I guess there are a few reasons that add up to the angst, like bad memory retentions which gets worse with anxiety. I have to map out everything all the way and then I'm like, where am I a zillion times along the way.

Same like when walking around a hospital and other places like that.

Going across town I can still lose my way if I get anxious with traffic on my heels ...

I'm just curious about other peoples experiences, so please do tell.

Cheers
Dave.

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I guess I must be the only one. :)

I attribute it to the memory in my head - just not much left these days . However in saying that, I do have an excellent capacity to sit down and learn anything that I feel attracted to in my own environment. As soon as I am out of that environment - my mind feels threatened and then it begins to shut down . and very quickly. I'll scan for sign way before they come, because I don't know where they are - the world has enough roads to go to the moon and back 27 times! ... That's got to be a huge number of signs to look for and if you don't know where your going - it's going to take quite a bit concentration to get from A to B.

It's funny how one can be ZEN doing their yoga class, then if asked to go to a new address without the aid of any device, maps or notation - how quickly the mind begins to scramble. Consider that maze man has constructed across the surface of the planet, its reliance on traveling on it - combined with the super information highway of the internet with everyone ordering their consumption needs - stop lights, crossings, giving way, idiots on the roads without a care, trains, buses, trucks, police, sirens, pedestrians, school kids, motor bikes, post men, couriers, cyclists, skate boarders and on and on ................................ all part of the residual process of living in a complex world. It may look as if none if it's effecting your brains capacity for memory ... but it's all residual and for people like me:

It scrambles my brain like and extremely loud TV ... I ask again ... anyone else find it hard to switch off all the humdrum on this harmonious planet and cringe under it's insensate need, to fill our heads like so? It's got to take it's toll at some point? How do you switch off? Seems to me people, forget a lot of important things along the way, in order to get where they are going - a world becoming more insensitive to others at they do what they must in order to keep afloat. ??? Forgetting to UNCHECK the boxes that once required a CHECK ... LOL ... now that's deception fo ya ... not only do you have to follow the sings, you have to decipher them as well. Go figure....

Seems very shallow theses day, that wen people arrive on time, it makes you wonder what they did along the way ... I best go ... Cheerio :)

[happybunnynikki]

Happybunnynikki - I'm way worse i think I feel weird even just going outside my door or even opening my door when I'm not expecting company it's weird I live in a fairly big city and I cant say I've ever drove on a freeway and if I do go somewhere I have to be driven there a couple of times before I feel comftortable going there myself once my husbands truck wouldn't start so we had to use mine and he drove all the way there and I was still half asleep being 4:30 am and all and when we got there it dawned on me that I had to drive back and I had no cell phone or gps and I literately freaked out so bad I started crying I was about 45 min from home luckily I had a full tank of gas and I made it I'm not even its because sometimes I have no problem whatsoever going somewhere or talking to someone for help with finding something but if I'm given the wrong drink at a restuarant I get nervous having to flag someone down and to tell them they gave me the wrong drink

[BamaBlues]

Its not just you I promise. I normally have to go somwhere 2 or more times if its a good distance away to remember directions, its like I have to make my self Pay attention which seems normal to everyone else but hard for me. Then when I think about how to go somewhere new i get so wound up and nervous then aggravated like crazy.

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Thank Goodness ... I am so glad to hear this guys - perhaps not so much the affliction, but is really good to hear you guys share like that. But have a comment for a bit later. Again - Thanks so much for your feedback. means a lot to me. :)