Is there a cure for agoraphobia?

Question

pills, lifestyle change, anything

Answer 1

Wow that is a tough one.

You need help. someone who is committed to helping you 'ease' out of your comfort zone very gradually and will always let you be in control. anti-anxiety medicines can help.
Look up CHAANGE.COM for some resources.

Answer 2

Agoraphobia is the fear of being in a situation where one might experience anxiety or panic and where escape from the situation might be difficult or embarrassing. It is the fear of the anxiety that leads to the agoraphobia.
If you fear being in large crowds for example, go somewhere where the crowd is moderately large, say in the mall during the weekday when the work week causes the number of people in the mall to be lower than on a Friday or Saturday night. Walk around for 30 minutes, sit on a bench for about 30 minutes then get up and leave. Do this say, 2 times per week until your anxiety has decreased. Then work up to a larger crowd and only hang out for 30 minutes total until the anxiety has decreased. You can see what I'm getting at. Phobias are fears that usually develop after a traumatic or stressful event, so it is a kind of a conditioning and can be reduced. It's like a marathon runner. When someone decides to run a marathon they must train a little at a time. The body could not run non-stop for 26 miles. The body must be conditioned by starting with short distances and building up to the 26 miles. Try this and soon you will see that there is no fear of the anxiety.
In severe cases a combination of therapy and medicines will help.

Answer 3

Self-help techniques and cognitive therapy are very effective for overcoming phobias. Anti-anxiety medication helps, but the effects are only temporary. Mostly, people overcome agoraphobia by first recognizing that their feelings of fear are real, but there is no real threat causing the fear. From there, a person next learns how anxiety causes scary feelings such as a rapid heart beat, hyperventiliation, nausea, shaking, weakness, and feeling faint - all perfectly normal responses to adrenaline. So, what a person with agoraphobia actually fears is the feelings caused by adrenaline - not some threat by being out of the house or among some crowd of people. If you can begin to think this way, phobias become relatively easy to manage and overcome. If you can go one step farther, and accept adrenaline effects as a normal reaction that is not a threat, and also something you can let happen without trying to fight it, anxiety starts to melt away.

This link has some excellent self-help advice:

Answer 4

If you're afraid of situations you can't get out of, you need to GET OVER IT. Any pills for phobias simply block reasoning centers in your brain; your brain associates the activity with something negative, so it tries to avoid it. Try preparing for whatever you're afraid of far in advance, and keep telling yourself there's nothing to be afraid of... unless you're literally being tortured on a regular basis. In that case, be very afraid.

Answer 5

beta-blockers are suppose to help