Agoraphobia

I was recently diagnosed with agoraphobia...

I don't leave the house and rarely talk to anyone face to face and I find it hard to even answer the phone a lot of the time. I live with my dad now...but even being around him is really hard.

My T told me to try to get out more but I just have a hard time leaving my little apartment in the basement of my dad's house. Recently my brother and his daughter started staying with us and I"m spending almost all my time with them...I do as much as I can--even pushing my own limits.

I feel so pressured all the time to do this or that...it's like they think I can just snap out of this...the intense fear at just the thought of being around people.

My fears got really bad when I came home from living in Colorado and was in an abusive relationship...even though that's over (he was stalking me and wouldn't allow me to have my own friends) the fear of people being out to get me...to hurt me...is still really strong.

I don't have any experience with agoraphobia but I wanted to say welcome to PC.

Cyran0

Thanks Cyran0

i also suffered with agoraphobia and when i started my meds again which are klonipin and kexapro i now am able to leave the house talk to ppl and go to stores before i could not it was just anintense fear coming over me that prevented me from going out nad my fam could not understand and support me they do now because they see the change in me with my meds best to you i hope you can overcome this

I hope you can get through everything, well i know you can.

Well I had asked my pdoc for something to help with the anxiety but he wouldn't give me anything because the Abilify was actually making me worse and I had stopped that at the urging of my therapist at the time. So he was angry that I had stopped it without talking with him first.

If your therapist does not have a Medical Degree it is not a good idea to take medical advice from them.

Some Doctoral level Psychologists can write prescriptions and they have been specially trained to manage your psychiatric medication.

As a matter of courtesy between doctors you should inform the doctor that prescribed the medication that you have been told to stop taking it.

Some medications have multiple uses and your therapist may not have taken certain medical usages into account.

personally i fear meds, and i wont take them even as bad as my anxiety is sometimes. Ive had two T's so far and neither of them suggested meds. They believe in cognitive therapy. And I believ in it too. If a T suggested meds right away i would be suspicious of his training. i dont believe meds is the answer. I dont want to depend on a drug to help me. It seems to work for some ppl though.