I've been agoraphobic for 20+ years. Not housebound. I hold down a full time job and lead an active social live, but it is all within a very specific area.
Over the years I've had times where I want to stretch my legs so to speak and have had every therapy under the sun and spent thousands. And yet here I am again. I don't necessarily want to go on holiday but I would love more than anything for a day trip out to the coast. I'm bored of my home town.
Does anyone have success stories to spur me on?
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Has anyone recovered from agoraphobia, and if so how?
ButNotTonight · 23/05/2018 23:38
FissionChips · 24/05/2018 10:58
Yup, to the point of not leaving my house (never even stepped foot into the garden) for 8 months.
I decided I couldn’t carry on like that any longer, I made an appointment with my GP, got prescribed citalopram to help with the anxiety and made a plan to go out a little further each day. At first it was just stepping out into the garden for a couple of minutes, then eventually to the local shops etc building it up. Took me 2 years but now I can go anywhere, somtimes feel a little apprehensive but push through it. No longer need the medication either.
Good luck, you can beat it.
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