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I want to hear from YOU.

When I was going through my hell, I always wished I had someone I could open up to in hopes that they could help me. I would of gave my right arm for that. I want to offer my real life experience ( no college degree or textbooks) of what it took to overcome my isolation, severe anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and agoraphobia. But only YOU can take that first step,. Take a chance and reach out, I'm here for YOU, no judgement, just a desire to possibly help someone with something close to my heart, that's all.

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Let it out ! #Depression #MentalHealth #AntisocialPersonalityDisorder #Agoraphobia #Loneliness #betrayal

Everyone has someone in their life to whom they wants to say a lot of things, let it be about their romantic feelings, revenge statements, irritating thoughts, current life situation etc. And circumstances don't let them do that and clearly let it out.

Therefore I am giving you this opportunity to say it to them and treat the comment section as the place to tell them everything you want to tell. Just let it out folks. Let it be unanimous followed by no judgements.

You can start by:
Dear XYZ,
I want to let you know that.......

#Grief #Loneliness

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Topic/Question Just for Fun and Connection 🙌🙌

To help encourage us to remember that we are more than our chronic illness(es) or any diagnosis, and to remember that we Are building friendships right here -

In the spirit of the current, Biggest, Buzz-Worthy, Trending Topic, MOVIES awards show airing Sunday night the Oscars🙌🤩🏆🍿🎥🎬

Let’s use this post all weekend Starting Now And And Into Next Week to connect through the art, power, storytelling, …and your particular views on any film. I will keep it as wide-ranged as that for a fun, varied, connecting conversation back and forth below 👇 in the comments!

#Loneliness #Grief #DistractMe #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #IfYouFeelHopeless #Depression #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #DepressiveDisorders #PersistentDepressiveDisorder #MoodDisorders #MDD #Agoraphobia #MentalHealth #MightyTogether #ADHD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #ChronicIllness #IntellectualDisability #AutismSpectrumDisorder #MyCondition #RareDisease #ChronicPain #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #ChronicFatigue #Migraine #Selfharm #Selfcare #Mindfulness #SuicidalIdeation #SuicidalThoughts #SuicideAttemptSurvivors #Suicide #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #PTSD #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #PsoriaticArthritis #Trauma #Cancers #AlopeciaAreata #AuditoryProcessingDisorder #CerebralPalsy #BipolarDisorder #DownSyndrome #Addiction #Lupus #HashimotosThyroiditis #AutoimmuneThyroidDisease #BipolarDepression #HypothyroidismUnderactiveThyroidDisease #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #AutonomicDysfunction #ParkinsonsDisease #PosturalOrthostaticTachycardiaSyndrome #POTS #EatingDisorders #AnorexiaNervosa #BingeEatingDisorder #Dyspraxia #BrainInjury #MotorDisorders

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To All of The Mighty- In case someone hasn’t told you this already 💯🤩🦋🧘🏻‍♀️💪 This quote image is what I am saying to EACH of YOU.

🙌 Yes!!

Yep, I am Also your confidence booster!
&
Your cheerleader ( 📣 🙃🤭🙌🙌 another fun fact about me - I was the first freshman in my high school to make the Varsity football cheerleading squad And I Also was a cheerleading coach in high school for junior high school kids And I did all of that while also teaching dance and helping to run a dance school in high school too, while also continuing my own dance training daily because my first love since the age of 3 has always been the beautiful art of dance- or like one of my all time favorite Professional dance companies that I paid to see live in NYC was called- “Shaping Sound”.

Yeah, I Really miss those days of Energy.

These days, if I have any energy or let’s say the infrequent but still a huge gift of having more than a little energy, it’s funny in that I can recognize the immense difference in a blink of an eye.

Oh, yeah, and about the badass part of this quote image 👆
Not having energy and still doing all that I do, That is what makes me Badass, is how I look at it- after straightening out my Perspective and Reframing my Headspace.
And honestly without my onset of major depressive disorder at age 34 (I am now 52), I would never have really achieved Becoming Badass! And, I always admired Badass people of all kinds.

Always remember this whole hard thing called life and life transitions requires us to take on new, healthier Perspectives Always, And this is what I learned from the Headspace app is also called “Reframing” (best app in the world, at least when I used it daily in 2017 - 2019)

And I have specific, Large, photo album folders on my phone - 1 titled “Reframing Headspace” from my saved key takeaways from each Headspace course lesson I took (that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group Resilience and Mindfulness) and I have another specific, Large, photo album folder titled “Perspectives” that Of Course I will be sharing with you in my group titled Resilience and Mindfulness)

To anyone seeing this post outside of my group - here is the direct link Resilience and Mindfulness and Join Us for So Much & because literally Everyone needs to learn both Resilience and Mindfulness (and, I don’t stop there with what goodies I share To Help YOU 😁🙃)

#MightyTogether #MentalHealth #ChronicFatigue #ChronicIllness #Disability #Anxiety #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #DepressiveDisorders #Selfharm #SocialAnxiety #ADHD #Agoraphobia #MDD #MoodDisorders #MultipleSclerosis #IfYouFeelHopeless #MyCondition #CheerMeOn #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #OtherMentalHealth #MotorDisorders #ChronicPain #Mindfulness #Selfcare #FamilyAndFriends #Relationships #AnorexiaNervosa #EatingDisorders #BingeEatingDisorder #Arthritis #BipolarDisorder #BipolarDepression #Fibromyalgia #Caregiving #Cancer #CrohnsDisease #DownSyndrome #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Epilepsy #Addiction #Lupus #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #CerebralPalsy #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder

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Resilience and Mindfulness | An Online Health Community

I am going to break down into pieces a lot of notes I have to share from Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills Course Audited -by University of Pennsylvania + More Supports For Wellbeing Some concepts I hope to add to your cognitive skills toolkit and vocabulary are: *Learning how to incorporate *resilience interventions*-*protective factors*, *cognitive strategies*, *develop mental agility*, increase positive emotion, *decrease anxiety*, and *take control of thinking traps*, and *learning the critical skill of optimism, as well as *taking a deeper dive into the cognitive skills and wellbeing mindset of mindfulness living. Resilience can help protect you from mental health conditions, such as depression and anxiety. Resilience also can help you deal with and be better prepared for other truly hard things in life. Research has also shown the effectiveness of mindfulness as an intervention in recurrent depression and there is so much more to this state of mind.
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❤️I received really good news ❤️

I applied for financial assistance to help cover the cost of one of my therapies, which isn’t covered by insurance. For some reason, my health insurance decided I wasn’t eligible for trauma informed care despite a diagnosis of complex PTSD 🙃So my bf and I have been paying out of pocket, which is a huge financial burden.
I wasn’t approved last quarter but I reapplied and was approved this time around!
My weekly therapy sessions will be covered by this award for 17 weeks. It was so needed, not just financially, but I needed a boost. I have been so scared about possibly losing my health insurance which covers my other care.
It’s a short, but much needed reprieve. It also was extremely validating to hear why I was selected.
I have been working really hard on establishing a good care team. I’m a diligent client, attend my appointments, take things seriously, and I work really hard to reach goals of lowering my trauma symptoms. I also have been working to establish some sort of community after being displaced. I have been volunteering when I can. It sounds like my therapist has communicated this to the organization both times I applied. It feels really good to hear someone recognize the hard work I’ve done- because I guess I wasn’t really putting all together myself.
I’m really proud of myself, and I’m so incredibly grateful for this reprieve.

#Agoraphobia #MentalHealth #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder #PanicDisorder #CheerMeOn #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #ChronicVestibularMigraine #Migraine #Disability #ADHD

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I am a citizen of the United States and I am so scared right now

This is terrifying. I am scared for everyone in this country. I feel so ashamed to even say that I am an “American.” I am scared of the global costs (financial, environmentally, politically, etc) and the consequences to other nations.

I’ve been so mad recently. I signed up to do more volunteering, specifically at a place to support those who are directly impacted. I do not know what else to do. It felt like something, a step forward into a widening gap of needs for people who live here. But now I do not even know how much longer I will have my basic needs met.

I feel like I’m dissociating, depersonalizing. Either that or I’m in a dystopian novel. A local restaurant raided, another report at a place I used to play Pokémon go. People swept up. It doesn’t make any sense. I feel like my story doesn’t make any sense. They said it would only be criminals. I didn’t believe them. I don’t believe them now.

I am disabled. I am scared I am going to lose government assistance. I am scared I will wake up one morning without insurance and not be able to refill my medication. Right now, the news is saying coverage is not impacted. But these pauses will impact my services. And when I have that conversation, I am told it’s not happening yet. And I feel like I’m being hushed with false promises, because we all are scared it is inevitable. I don’t believe them.

I survive by accessing these supports. I survive at the mercy of this government.

I am so sorry to anyone who is being impacted by this. I did not vote for this. I do not support this.

I don’t even know if I am allowed to say this stuff on here. I just don’t know what else to do.

#Disability #Agoraphobia #Anxiety #PanicDisorder #ComplexPosttraumaticStressDisorder #ChronicVestibularMigraine #Migraine #ADHD #ADHDInGirls #Trauma #MightyTogether #CheckInWithMe

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