Living with Agoraphobia

First I would like to tell you briefly about what Agoraphobia is and how it is defined. Agoraphobia is labeled as a social anxiety disorder, which is often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. Ones whom suffer from this disorder may avoid public or unfamiliar places where there are little places to hide, and may even become confined to his or her home and experience problems traveling from this safe place. Agoraphobia is also known as ‘Fear of the Marketplace’.

Now I have always been a quiet type person who always seemed to keep to him self. Not knowing if this was early onset of this disorder, I was never intrigued to learn more about why I was doing some of the things I was doing until after I experienced a car accident in the year 2000, which left me with major head trauma. I found myself constantly confined to my room, and each time I would travel outside, I would find my heart racing and forming cold sweats.

Still to this current time in 2009 I find myself still confined to my room a-lot of the times, and experiencing difficulty traveling outside of my home. I know it is not a healthy way to deal with this, but I recently have found having a close friend, or what I would also call a ‘crutch’ around. I could deal with the disorder a-lot easier by focusing my attention on that one friend and not the people around me.

Sad to say though, this disorder has lead me to a path for a long time of using alcohol to deal with my anxiety and to help me deal with the general public. Which I am working on calming down at the current moment, and so far so good, but still not soon enough for me not to loose the love of my life, my licence, and my own personal life.

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