Hi ,
I'm just jumping in....
I can get agoraphobic too.
I've been I guess I can say I've been battling cancer since I've been 24. And back in the 90s chemotherapy was almost barbaric. At least for me it was I couldn't stop throwing up and crying. Having a mother that was paralyzed because she was in a car accident drunk because her husband just died in bed next to her six months before on Christmas Day wasn't easy deal with either. Not to mention my 13 year old brother who was just an Angry Kid and missed his dad and hated his mom and was afraid of me because I look like death and I looked like I was dying because I was.
Cancer came again for me almost to the day 20 years later. And this time it had to deal with organs. So they cut a big part of my colon out and all my grill parts and put me through chemo again. This time I had husband but he wasn't around much of course he had to work. He even left me alone for six weeks to do chemo on my own. It wasn't as barbaric this time, you would hope they would get somewhere in 20 years.
Now again today I am recovering from a small bladder surgery where they removed 2 tumors. I'm fine, but I won't find out until Friday December 8th if it's Cancer.
At least I know why I'm afraid to leave my house..... because something might happen that I can't control.
Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it considering I can't control what happens in my own body. But then again it doesn't because at least in my house I can control pretty much whatever goes on around me.
Food for thought agoraphobics!