Me to, my husband has been of work for 8 weeks and has been every where with me. He is due back to work in a fortnight and i will be so anxious going shopping etc, i dont like change i dont sem to addapt well to it. I find it hard enough going out on my own at the best of times, now it is going to be even harder...i will go with you dazed lol.

Get the same thing all the time. Has been with me for years, also stemming for early childhood. Maybe it's a self esteem or confidence issue? Just something else I work on through therapy and daily life. I have actually been getting better with it. Just keep challenging yourself to go out alone it does get easier.

Vonny...you promise you will go with me? Oh thank you thank you thank you!

Crazy...I work on it as often as I can I force myself to take baby steps, but I have been like this since I was a child, so will take some doing!

I sometimes have issues like this because I am so bad with direction, and I usually get lost. If I have to go somewhere new, it freaks me out. But I do force myself to do it most of the time.

I'M JUST THE OPPOSITE AND LIKE TO GO PLACES BY MYSELF SO WHY DON'T YOU GUYS GIVE ME HALF OF WHAT YOU HAVE AND I'LL GIVE YOU HALF OF WHAT I HAVE AND WE WILL ALL BE GREAT!!!!

lol gramy!

Hi, I feel the same. But I want to change this dependency on my hubby. Looking for a buddy to change things slowly.

I am this way I can be home alone I feel like I have gotten so dependent on my husband he drives he goes most places with me. I have also moved to a new place I understand I have panic attacks driving alone down country roads its so country here isolated we now have a apartment.

I understand this both from my own experience and as a therapist. The fear is usually centered around some sort of feeling vulnerable. Ask yourself what do you feel vulnerable about? Where do you feel safe? What is it about that safe place? Something I have found with anxiety is that there is an inflated sense of importance....everyone will be looking at me, etc. Realize that people are very busy and probably don't have much time to focus in on you. I think the baby steps is a very good idea. If anxiety keeps you housebound then open the back door and just look around. Then maybe sit on the porch a few minutes. Reward yourself buy saying I can do this. Anticipatory anxiety is usually much worse than the anxiety of the real event.

Some people laugh at me because I am always by myself. I enjoy going out by myself. But when I come home I feel depress. I just feel worry to death when I go to work.