News of Agoraphobia Forum

###$ it, so frustrating!!!!!

At 16 and a half in June 2010, I have barely left my room. I am going to be 18 in a week and it sucks. Anxiety and fear have me floored, man. I just want too party and have a good time !!!!!

Im riding my bike outside. Im a mountain biker. I have agoraphobia. It might sound like a strange combination.. It can work, God brought it to me.

I can concentrate on the bicycling when Im outside. the tricks , and such that go with mountain biking. I don't have to stay in one place, I can move around for safety. I can go where there is not so many people, and I can peddle fast ...

I came down with agoraphobia about a year ago. It was to a point where I couldn't leave my house and This happened during recovery from anorexia. Well the benzos were being pretty effective in helping me with it, but I abused them for the last year. Well I was taking 6 mg Klonopin and the doctor put me on a 4 day watch in the psych unit and cut me COLD TURKEY. He refused ...

I apologize that it's so long, I wrote this a while ago as like, a blog.

Summer of my sophomore year I went to a month-long sleep-away camp at a nearby college in order to experience what life in college was like.

I was fine for the first few weeks. I'm a shy and socially deficient person and as such, I had only made only one friend - a boy named John who I met ...

Hi everyone, I just joined this site tonight. I decided to make an account and look for help. I am 21 years old and feeling the worst I have ever felt in my life. Agoraphobia/panic disorder is destroying me it seems. Aside from not being able to live my life and go where I want, I have been dealing with very, very intense "brain fog". (Trouble concentrating/focusing, disorientation, dizziness, dream-like feeling all of the time) ...

I saw the Agoraphobia room here at the forums and had to step in. Ive never talked on a forum about Agoraphobia. Even though its a big part of the over all experience of my Dissociative conditions..

I have been Hospitalized for Agoraphobia.. before I was Hospitalized, somewhere in a small town, I could not get of off my bed for 7 months.. it was like a safe island for me. After the therapists got ...

About a year ago I had agoraphobia so bad I could barely sit in the car for five minutes. I ended up addicted to Xanax and was abusing it. Now long story short I am abusing Klonopin and addicted to that. I am planning on going to the hospital to detox as soon as I run out. Does anyone out there with agoraphobia manage WITHOUT benzos? I know I don't have much of a choice ...

Hello to you all,
I just registered after finding this forum because I want to read more about all your experiences. Sometimes I think I may be heading toward becoming agoraphobic, but I don't really have panic attacks. I think I may just be depressed, and staying inside my apartment or shutting out other people just seems like a more comfortable place to be.

My late mother used to say she was agoraphobic, and I ...

Last fall/winter I had debilitating agoraphobia to where I couldn't even leave my house for a five minute drive in the car. During the summer I got a lot better and was even able to take long drives again. Now lately it has been coming and going. To where I have to cancel appointments once in a while, or I won't get in the car. But it isn't constant. It is coming and going. I ...