Did anyone ever get like mild PTSD from car breaking and massive DIY repair? (Not like war PTSD). Did anyone ever had to do a BIG repair on their car and now has like a phobia of even driving it? Like any sound/smell/anything else just feels like its too much, I can’t trust this car anymore.

**PTSD like literally post stress, not actual war-related shellshock which I agree with George Carlin should not be called euphemisms and be called just that, shellshock. PTSD is for the rest of us simple soft people.

Just had to take half a car apart to change turbo and DPF, remove/reinstall the whole exhaust system front to back, driveshaft, front suspension, subframe, entire air intake system aside from intercooler, like basically most things you can unbolt really.

So I put it all together, I am fairly good at this or used to be, some minor things to iron out after few test drivers like seized caliper due to car standing too long, some exhaust fumes from like a hundred gaskets I changed that have to be addressed etc.

But like I am terrified of this car now, every second in it feels like it will fail on me. I drove it for 140,000 miles across entire Europe prior with almost no problems and then boom, a massive failure, cost and repair, disassemblinng and reassembling half a car. It's like I got psychological trauma from it and now would rather just walk lol. The car is fine, and passed MOT, but I think I developed PTSD since it took me so lonng to get it fixed myself and so much done. Anyone else had that feeling? Like you can't ever trust that car again like you used to after it let you down in such a major way.