Agoraphobia

[Spec]

Well, I dont have good news.

I left for Las Vegas on a business trip a couple of weeks ago . While I was gone, we dont know why, my gf got a lot of anxiety inside, for no apparent reason.
Since that event/week, now, she has trouble going to public places, like taking the bus, going to the supermarket, etc...But she does take the bus, its just getting harder and harder for her every week. She knows it doesn't make any sense and she doesn't understand why this is happening to her. Neither do I.
When I am around though, it's not so bad, but when she goes to the mall with her dad or her friends and I am not there, she gets all anxious, her heads starts to spin and everything. We checked out her symptoms on the net and on every site all her symptoms are exactly the ones for agoraphobia...How do you fix this if you dont even know how or why it started? And its getting worse as weeks advance...

Spec.

[Asher]

Great song, Spec, didn't know you had it in you.

Two people touching lips
Hands on each other's hips
Nothing else in the world but one another

The 42nd floor
On a distant shore
I wonder how we've strayed so far from this

Remember when we were
Just flesh and bone
You sir may have forgotten how good your world can be

So, put down your hollow tips
And kiss your lovers lips
And know that fate is what we make of it

Please end this, please end this
Before this ends us, ends us, end us

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
For good, for good, for good, for good , for good, for good, for good

I read the news today
And everything they say
Just makes me want to stay inside and wait

But the better part of me knows
That waiting in the throws
Is on par with reading with my eyes closed

"What Can I do?", You say
"It's just another day
In the life of Apes with ego trips"

Put down your hollow tips
And kiss your lover's lips
And know that fate is what we make of it

Please end this, please end this
Before this ends us, ends us, end us

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
For good, For good

ohh, ohhh, ohhhh oooo
ohhh oooo, oh
ahhhh

I'm gonna stay inside
I'm gonna stay inside for good
I'm gonna stay inside
For good, for good

I wanna stay inside
I wanna stay inside for good
I wanna stay inside
Don't want to stay inside for good
Don't wanna stay inside, for good, for good, for good, for good, for good, for good, **** off, for good, for good, for good, for good

[SlowwHand]

http://www.anxietyinsight.com/treatment.php

Not going to be easy. Playful went through some time with the same thing, before me.

[Jon Miller]

This sounds like a situation where a psychologist could help. At the very least identifying the issues is important and should be something they can assist with if she can't identify them on her own.

JM

[Spec]

Thanks for the help Asher



I am serious here. She wants to change jobs but she is afraid of applying....

Spec.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
This sounds like a situation where a psychologist could help. At the very least identifying the issues is important and should be something they can assist with if she can't identify them on her own.

JM

I saw on a couple of sites where they said that hypnosis could help....Do you guys believe in that?


I kind of dont...But I naturally doubt pretty much anything that is not black or white at first glance...


Spec.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
Thanks for the help Asher

Get her to download the song and sing along.

[Jon Miller]

It can, but I wouldn't mess with it. Basically it 'cures' something by forcing your mind to do something. Really I don't like my mind being forced to do anything. Let me understand the problem, and then it can be fixed...

So basically I would recommend seeing the 'real' doctor first. If (s)he is any good they will try to determine what is causing it. With that information further actions can then be decided.

Jon Miller

[Asher]

She probably just has a generalized anxiety disorder.

[Spec]

Originally posted by Asher
She probably just has a generalized anxiety disorder.

That just appeared out of nowhere?

Why?

Spec.

[Apocalypse]

I am not sure if ti is agoraphobia. Many times phobias are causes by initial anxiety that causes the person to remove themselves from the situation in the future. Each time they avoid it, they are rewarded by not having to deal with that anxiety. This causes the phobia to be reinforced.

If she does this despite having anxiety, then there would be something else causing it.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Spec
That just appeared out of nowhere?

Why?

Spec.

Any traumatic events recently?

She does live in Quebec?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Spec
That just appeared out of nowhere?

Why?

She's clingy. You said she only goes crazy when you aren't there.

Seriously though, a doctor would be the best person to talk with about this.

[snoopy369]

Anxiety disorders are I believe based on brain chemistry imbalances, so it's possible something stopped working properly (either due to some disease, or just stopped working properly over time). There are a lot of medicines that can help (though some are safer/less harmful than others...)

[Jon Miller]

Chemistry is in my opinion, the last thing to use.

JM