Wow, Tabby, this was an onset that just exploded all of a sudden on you? I'm very sorry to hear about it. I live what your saying every day. Going to the store, pumping gas, leaving my house, and so on are tasks that I have to get the courage up to do. Sometimes I will run my tank to the peg just in pure Anxiety of stopping and getting gas. I look out all my windows to make sure no neighbors are outside and quickly get the mail. I have been under treatment for this since around 1999, and have gotten better. But its still such a horrible trapped feeling. And I'm still not to the point where I feel I could be, but even with doctors, medications, family support and excercises nothing has gotten me to a more normal comfort level.

I wonder if your onset has anything to do with harmonal or thyroidal problems that all of a sudden kicked in?

Well whatever it is, I wish you all the best in fighting this back. As most of us here suffer from Anxiety we know how you feel.

-Mark