Don't quite know how to respond to this one...
I've been driving since 17 (I'm 36 now), and have only just been diagnosed - which has given a name and explanation for many of the feelings/problems etc that I've been having for years (in honesty, I cannot remember when they started) - which would mean I have been driving for a long time when uncontrolled (albeit unawarely) - borrowed time you might say!
My diagnosis came after my second car accident in 2 months...the first I just absenced on a bend and went off road, rolled the car and slipped two discs amongst other knocks!! I walked away (this was a very quiet road). The second, I absenced again and hit a concrete post at 90kph (55mph) - wrote off the car, twisted chassis, broke 4 ribs...but still, got out a walked away...
a much busier road...my car hit the post, went into a spin, and basically continued along the road, spinning, crossing the carriageway, for 150m before coming to rest in a stone wall, on the wrong side of the road facing the wrong direction. The police were very surprised at how the car ended up where it did and how I was out and about. It was they who took me to A&E and it was there that my story came out and the diagnosis got underway.
That could have been very bad...I'm not worrried about me, but how would I feel if I hurt someone else??
Still cannot answer that...but...I'm still driving...I live in the middle of nowhere and I've got to work...I'm scared and I know what I'm doing is wrong...
But please, for the sake of a few more months, don't take unecessary risks...