*I need positive stories of people who have overcome panic disorders agoraphobia : *
Often with anxiety and especially agoraphobia we try to do things but they make us anxious so we naturally avoid them, only every time we try them it makes us more anxious, to the point where everything makes us anxious and then we become a bit stuck in our fears.
The aim of exposure therapy is to do things a little bit at a time, stepping just out of our comfort zone so that we're uncomfortable but it's not full-on freaking out.
Maybe if you were afraid to go to Coles, for example, a step in exposure therapy might be walking around it, or near it, or beside the door, and then working up to going inside.
While it is scary, it's baby steps, and I know from experience that you can do it too.
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