Agoraphobia & Social Anxiety Support Group

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia may avoid public and/or unfamiliar places. In severe cases, the sufferer may become confined to their home, experiencing difficulty traveling from this "safe place."

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Back To Afraid This Morning....

silverlight
silverlight

I don't quite know what it was about yesterday morning....around 8 AM I just felt this overwhelming need to get out of my apartment so I went for a walk.


I actually went for a walk and my OCD's intrusive thoughts hardly intruded upon me at all.


I didn't even feel afraid in The Outside World.


I fully intended upon going for a walk this morning but the anxiety I feel right at my core over the very prospect is overwhelming and I just don't think I can do it.


I do have to go to the store today-I HAVE to...


I don't even know what I am afraid of exactly,what I think will happen to me,it is more this terrible feeling of dread i have within me.


I know I make it bigger than it is.


I don't know how to change this....

arfie
arfie
Don't know if it anywhere near the same, but the worst of my own anxiety attacks are "Delayed Reactions." With my delayed reactions, my OCD thought loops can turn my most glorious successes into proof that a witch burning would be too gentle a punishment for me. I know I make it bigger than it is, but such is the nature of OCD.

One of my own therapy tools from the 70's is to detach a bit from the phenom by telling myself, "The Anxiety makes me do it." I don't know if that is still a clinically approved psychotherapy tool, but the personification of my anxiety makes it a bit easier for me to set ^it^ aside for long enough to do whatever need to be done.

But that is me and every case is unique. . .

Continued support while you find what works for you.
silverlight
silverlight
Thank you for your reply,Arfie.

And interesting....I have always personified my OCD.
I truly see it as an "entity" that is trying to control me...
arfie
arfie
OCD is one of the diseases I suffer. I try not to let my handicaps define me.
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