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Anonymous10/17/25, 12:42No.28675350Street cruising and mental illness?
Recently I have been thinking about whether "reckless" street driving or speeding down country lanes has a correlation with mental health. I am still fairly new to driving at 25 in the shithole that is the UK, but I have recently ran into a rutt mentally and socially and have been getting really dangerous compulsions on the road. I never had them before, but ever since I have ran into a spat of lonliness induced anxiety in recent months and longing for past failed relationships I have been more drawn to speeding and pushing how fast I can go without needing to slow down. Shifting to 5th in a 30 zone and then rev blipping down to 3rd or 2nd on junctions or corners for instance, or going 60 in a country lane. I have been questioning myself internally why I would consider such things, but when thr negative thoughts start creeping back into mind I just seem to default to:
>fuck it, who cares
until my headspace clears up again and I settle down. It's really intrusive though, not in a aggresive way like channeling frustration but more so like an apathetic devil may care sort of way.
As a result I have been wondering whether this sort of experience is true for other drivers who do actually speed and cruise on public roads. A member of my family used to street cruise a ton when he was young, and while he has never admitted to it as such being the cause, he had a very rough youth and had a girlfriend who was constanly on verge of killing herself. When I used to go to college a lot of other students would brag about or show dashcam chase videos like the Getaway in Stockholm series, but the few who actually had a legit investment in cruising beyond cool factor were from broken homes or suffering with drugs.
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Anon10/17/25, 12:45No.28675351
Yeah. That's a thing.
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Anon10/17/25, 12:45No.28675352
when I was 18 and also depressed and lonely I would speed like a maniac in my old honda shitbox
it was some kind of self destructive behavior I reckon
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Anon10/17/25, 12:59No.28675365
Your mom was born gay and got tricked into having you and now we all have to deal with it.Oh that means youre gay too btw.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:13No.28675380
Its just because you are a new, and inexperienced driver.
This will go away over time.
It happens with all new drivers, same as they think old, manual transmissions are better than modern autos, when modern autos are far superior
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Anon10/17/25, 13:23No.28675393
It's a way to get out of your head and put you 'in the moment'. Driving fast puts you in a life or death situation that forces you to be here and now.There's other ways to do this, like meditating. But meditating and learning to view your thoughts as thoughts to pull your head out of your ass takes more practice and effort than simply ripping down a country road at 100mph does.
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Anon10/17/25, 13:40No.28675417
This is probably a biological mechanism that was originally intended to get you to take more risks in order to find a mate. In caveman Africa, your opportunities for risk taking probably entailed war heroics, adventure, or rape. Now that cars exist they offer a more attractive but less useful outlet for the same impulse.
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Anon10/17/25, 14:14No.28675463
If you go fast enough, your anxiety can't keep up.
All life's worries get lost out on the road.
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Anon10/17/25, 14:25No.28675489
I think it's more connected to young men having absolutely no purpose in life leading to thrill seeking behavior because they don't have anything to live for and therefore do not hesitate at activities with potentially lethal consequences.
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Anon10/17/25, 14:47No.28675533
ur a gay and need trt, you will mark my words in 10yrs but it will be too late to change your fate by then
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Anon10/17/25, 16:15No.28675655
I speed because it's fun, not because i have some faggot ass cringe desire to kill myself because i'm a poor little depressed baby in a first world country
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Anon10/17/25, 16:50No.28675728
Isn't there some weird bacteria from cats that gets into your eye and makes you more reckless?
Like 80% of motorcyclists have it.
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Anon10/17/25, 18:23No.28675869
As an older person who got a lot of that stuff out of my system my advice is to not worry about it.
The real danger on the roads is stupid cunts who can't fucking drive and do 10-15 under the limit in the fast lane. Every day I see people losing their temper and dangerously changing lanes to get around these stupid cunts holding up traffic.
Nothing I ever did in my reckless youth was as dangerous as people who lose their temper being stuck behind a slow retard.
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Anon10/17/25, 20:21No.28676082
blud thinks he's in wangan midnight
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Anon10/17/25, 21:31No.28676229
Yes there is some relation between depression/anxiety and reckless driving. In fact when I was in therapy once one of the first questions the shrink asked me is if I drove recklessly. However, I wouldn't worry to much about it. Just do it, it's fun.
