The first time I had panic attack when I was 21 years old.
I just got out of the hospital after being there 3 months for burst appendix. I was sitting on the bus when suddenly I didn't fell right,and I got off from the bus and walked home. By the time I got home I felt fine.I didn't have it after that until I came to America and got married and had my son. I had it for 15 years and with xanax and therapy I got better.
I got divorced and moved to a different city and I was fine for 12 years I was able to work and go on plane done a lot of traveling. But now It's back again.

My agoraphobia and panic dissorder started at 16 when my dad sent me to my mums for the weekend and then rang my mum and told her and me that I couldn't come home. I just had the stuff with me from the weekend. I had to ring all my friends and then boyfriend and say I wouldn't be coming back and my new life started with my mum in a city where I didn't know anyone and didn't want to be. My dad then had a break down and ended up in hospital which i guess is why he sent me to my mums, because he knew. I have suffered with this panic ever since and I find life generally difficult to be honest!

I still find life difficult myself, when I used to find it easy, I used to really enjoy life. Everyone has problems, but when problems become a 'cataylst' for anxiety/panic, then life becomes difficult, when the initial problems were difficult to cope with anyway.

I found that facing the world, rationally not worrying about things & believing that everythings 'going to be O.K.', relaxing, smiling, eating properly & generally acting like you haven't got a care in the world (when really you have), helped me a lot.

Yes, I'm still struggling through life (it's like I'm walking through mud @ times), but it's like i said about "behavioural therpay". If you behave & think positively like someone who doesn't have anxiety/panic/depression, then eventually you'll be like someone who doesn't have anxiety/panic/depression. GL.

Cpt Stunning,

A lot of people say this to me, my mum in particular says that I beat myself up too much about how im feeling. She says I would be surprised just how many people feel anxiety in what I percieve to be quite 'normal' situations like shopping, going to meetings etc. I have learnt to just deal with it and get on with it but it does get me down. Goodness knows what I would be like if I wan't on medication....that worries me.

My start when i was seventeen also, how strange a few of us started at that age. I wasn't as bad as I am now, I became severe 4 years ago and pretty much housebound, no social life, can't go to work, shopping is sheer hell.

helen scry

Jonnyjonny_uk Wrote:Agoraphobia typically affects women and begins in early adulthood but when did it start for you?

scry My Agorophobia started about 2 year ago.Ops its very bad dear ....