Actually, most cases of agoraphobia start with the sufferer being afraid to go one place in particular.  After a while they will fear visiting another spot.  Before long they fear other places and in time they fear visiting the world outside their homes altogether.

Agoraphobia does not exist on its own.  It needs panic attacks to survive.   The simple fact is, agoraphobia is not possible without panic because one who fears leaving home actually experiences panic when leaving home. Simple fear does not impel one to stay at home for the rest of his life.

Panic and Agoraphobia

There is no doubt anxiety panic disorder is part of the condition we know as agoraphobia.  If panic attacks are absent, agoraphobia will not be present either. Clearly, the cure to agoraphobia lies in curing panic attack syndrome.

The first panic attack most people have comes unexpectedly and suddenly.  The sufferer of a panic attack will always seem to blame the place the attack occurred on the fact it did occur.  So, logically, he will not want to return to this place.

Unfortunately, a sufferer of anxiety is liable to have a panic attack anywhere and so, if the panic attack was anything other than just a rare isolated incident, the patient will have another one in a another place and he will then add this place to those he will no longer visit.

Fear of Panic Occurring at a Particular Event

In reality, it is not always places the panic attack sufferer associates with his panic attacks.  It sometimes is certain events he will blame the attack on.  Certain church ceremonies, such as weddings may be associated with panic.  Also, sometimes it is parties, traffic jams, concerts or any other type of an event.   It doesn’t really matter because in the sufferer’s mind the solution is to stay home.

The symptoms of panic attack are very harrowing to the person having them.   These symptoms are feelings that mock very serious events like heart attacks and strokes.    It is only normal to try to stave off such feelings.   Certainly, if avoiding certain events would do it, it would seem reasonable to stay away from them!  However, ot would not be a cure.

The bottom line is curing agoraphobia entails the sufferer visiting those places where he suffered panic attacks.  The cure to panic attacks entails the sufferer of them actually inviting these attacks to occur without trying to avoid them in any way shape or form.  Panic thrives on fear and when we decide we will not fear them, they will cease to exist.  Then, with panic no longer present in one’s life, agoraphobia will wither on the vine. 

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Agoraphobia is defined as fear of the market place. Actually this nervous illness makes people unable to go anywhere outside the home. It is also said to be a phobia of leaving the home.  It is true some cases of agoraphobia keep patients locked up in their homes, other less severe cases cause them to be afraid to venture out to a select few.

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Naturally, the place this person would fear leaving would be his or her home.  Generally speaking, the person suffering from the fear of leaving home is not afraid explicitly of the marketplace but he or she is simply afraid to go anywhere.  At least, this is true in advanced cases.

Often the fear of leaving starts when the person with the developing phobia has a panic attack away from the home.  Because of this he/she equates the panic attack with the place it occurred and therefore avoids returning to this place. 

As  time goes on, more panic attacks occur at different various places and the sufferer ads these places to those he or she will no longer visit.  Before long everyplace outside of the home is a part of his or her “do not visit” list and a full-fledged case of agoraphobia or phobia of leaving is developed.

To defeat agoraphobia one must first learn to defeat panic.  Once the sufferer learns how to overcome panic attacks he/she can eventually start on a program bringing the him/her back out into the world once again.  No longer fearing an attack will directly lead to no longer fearing what waits in store when the comfort of the home is left behind.  

Still, even at this point some guidance will be needed in order to help the patient gain confidence.  However as the agoraphobia patient gains confidence the panic attacks will no longer control his or her life, fear of leaving home will be well on its way to becoming nonexistent.

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With anxiety disorder, an otherwise perfectly normal individual suffers from nervousness to the point he/she can no longer conduct his/her life in exactly the way he/she would like to.

Panic attacks are often the next step after an anxiety disorder takes hold of a person’s life.  Panic attacks come in spells and totally decapitate the sufferer to the point all he/she can do is strive to get through the horrible spell.

Once a panic attack occurs in a public place, the nervously ill person may associate the place of the attack with the panic spell.  So, the sufferer will not return to that place.

Once he/she experiences panic in several places, often this person will become afraid to leave the home altogether.  This fear of leaving home or technically speaking, fear of the market place, is agoraphobia.

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In more advanced cases of agoraphobia the sufferer will not be able to leave home at all.  Cases like this usually start with the sufferer being afraid to go shopping (fear of the market) or to church but build to the point where the agoraphobiac will not be able to go anywhere without having a panic attack.

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Agoraphobia is brought on when a person reaches a state where he or she is experiencing panic attacks.  It normally happens when this person has such an attack, he or she associates the place where the attack occurred with the panic symptoms and therefor will subsequently avoid visiting this place.

Panic attacks can happen anywhere and so an agoraphobia sufferer may become afraid to go to anywhere outside the home.  However, a crowded market, which could take a long time to exit and has isles that can cause a closed in feeling is a very difficult place for a panic attack sufferer to visit without suffering an attack.

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