On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Jim
A fearful driver cannot be a safe one. Fearful people tend to act on impulse rather than thinking things through. They tend to get easily confused and "wound up", leaving them unable to make the closely sequential rapid and sound decisions needed to drive safely. You also state that you drive on inadequate sleep, which is extremely dangerous even if one isn't abnormally fearful. I strongly suggest you simply choose not to drive until such time as you find a treatment for the cause of your fear, rather than its symptoms.
I've got someone in my family like that. He happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time too many times while he was a little kid, and saw six or seven really gory, gross car crashes -- not including the time his dog was sent flying through the air and into the path of another vehicle, right in front of his eyes, when an inattentive driver jumped the curb. Cars to him are ugly rest-machines (trucks less so; he never saw a truck crash, and motorcycles even less so; he never saw a motorcycle crash either...so you can see this doesn't correlate with real-world safety at all). His solution? He simply doesn't drive.
