Avoiding places due to bad memories

[Auburngal]

Since I left my job at the supermarket, I have never walked past the entrance to it as feel uncomfortable doing so. Former colleagues are great friends but still can't walk past the store. I make detours. For example, needed to visit a shop on the top of the road. Before, I walked the entire prescient, going past my work. Now, I walk along the main road then enter the prescient from the other side.

My DM broke her hip slipping on a pavement. It took her about 8 years to actually drive down the road. Fortunately, its a side road and not one she has to go past/down to go home, shops, etc

Are there places you do avoid and have to go on a detour if the place is enroute to where you are going?

I hate walking past my daughter’s primary school. I spent so much time there trying to get to the bottom of her school anxiety and address bullying etc and things just got worse. I realized one day after she was kicked in the head at an assembly (that the school described to me as being ‘tapped’ on the head) that I didn’t trust the school to keep her safe or the teachers to even tell me the truth.
I pulled her out, but if I have to walk past the school I start getting anxious about all the other kids still trapped there with the whole culture of bullying and gaslighting. I avoid it, and say a quick prayer if I do go past it, but I can’t really explain to anyone why because it just sounds dramatic.

I understand what you mean but I’ve long since adopted a policy of avoiding avoidance. It makes the anxiety worse and just isn’t worth it.

I used to hate driving past the hospital where I gave birth to my dc, due to my horrible experience with my second birth and ds' complications afterwards.

I also avoided the woods near our house for ages after 7yo ds broke his leg and collarbone there in an accident which could have killed him. It was 10 years ago and I still feel sick when I think about it, but I don't avoid the woods any more!