Serious question this time...?!
Question: Does anyone else out there suffer from Agoraphobia? If so how to you cope and how do you make a living? I've been to groups, I take medications, I see doctors even been hospitalized at one point. I see these on-line jobs, but how can you honestly pay your rent and utilities, etc...on what little they pay? I am in serious jeopardy of loosing everything I have and I have no answers. No one I know family, friends seem to understand what I'm going through and it just makes me feel that much worse about the whole thing. It's to the point where I hope each night that I don't wake up anymore to have to face the terror. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Answers: Does anyone else out there suffer from Agoraphobia? If so how to you cope and how do you make a living? I've been to groups, I take medications, I see doctors even been hospitalized at one point. I see these on-line jobs, but how can you honestly pay your rent and utilities, etc...on what little they pay? I am in serious jeopardy of loosing everything I have and I have no answers. No one I know family, friends seem to understand what I'm going through and it just makes me feel that much worse about the whole thing. It's to the point where I hope each night that I don't wake up anymore to have to face the terror. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
I hope you don't mind me answering; I don't have agoraphobia, but my mom does and I grew up witnessing this problem every day. What she had to do in order to earn a living at one point was apply for disability. The way she coped with this was to take medications, though I know you said you already do that. When Lexapro came out, that was the med that changed her life and allowed her to lead a normal life. She even goes traveling in airplanes, which was totally out of the question when I was a kid (hell, going to the GROCERY store was out of the question back then). Until she started Lexapro, nothing happened without plenty of Xanax. Of course, meds are so individual & what helps one person does nothing or harms another person. It sounds like you are having financial difficulties, or will have them soon, so I hate to suggest this, but I am in school for a master's in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the clinic at my school has helped many people with agoraphobia get better. I also have a friend who got better through a naturopath. The problem is that medical insurance does not pay for these treatments. I put in some links for your further research. Good luck; this is so hard to deal with and even though nobody who doesn't have it can truly understand, there are those of us who sympathize.