I think this is a true breakthrough with depression and anxiety it is ancient practices meets western medicine

I am trying emdr therapy, eft therapy by myself and accepting myself with affirmations, etc..

Even though my faith had a huge part in my defeating this fear. Accepting routine lab work is just part of life. The moment of pain is not a reason to deny yourself potentially life extending diagnostic tests

Thinking that it's all in my head, reminding myself I'm alright.

im taking it day by day, just trying to get more into the social act. i see that the longer i stay one place at a public events or social event, it wears down your phobia...the thing is that if you dont continue to participate in a social events on a daily basis, it comes crawling back. but overall, im slowly getting better at it, definatly beating it...

when I finally really understood that agoraphobia is partly a chemical misfiring in the brain, so that no matter how hard I tried, I simply could not do it alone, things became a lot easier.

accepting what has happened (5 times at that) helps me not to dwell too much on things i can not control (the past), and helps me focus more on things i can work on, in hopes to make positive impact(s) in my future.

This is my life. I am 31 years old now. I can only hurt myself by allowing abusive addicted people close to me. I make my own choices. The things that have happened to me because of the addicts in my life are all just memories and those people can not affect me now. I have cut ties with most of my family it is sad but only in a sense if they were not the hurtful people that they are and choose to be.

I actually felt almost suicidal for the first time in my life on the worst night of my symptoms. Then I prayed really hard, accepted my condition and went to sleep. The next day, I felt and saw very slight muscle movement. It kept getting better each day.

I'm finally getting there.