It had been very hard to leave my home for the last 2 months. A couple days ago I went into hypomania and have no problem now. It take both valium and Ativan, and although they are both benzos, Ativan and Xanax do work better for the extreme social anxiety and agoraphobia you have. Maybe your pdoc can prescribe like 5 prn ativans a month so you can go somewhere when you need to?