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Oh, Loh how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast.

Now let's get talking about today's subject matter, agoraphobia. So this is pretty common in my email box. There's a lot of people

asking questions about this. And so let's start off with what psychology today defines it as. Their definition is that it is translated

from the Greek as Fear of the Marketplace. Agorobia involves intense fear and anxiety to a real or anticipated

place or situation where escape might be difficult. So I'll stop there because then it gets into some

details which if you already have this you already know and if you don't you

probably don't need any more ideas on where your fear can lodge itself but let us just say that it is about a place, right, a place or a situation.

And then everybody doesn't struggle with this it's not the

anxiety that everybody feels some people have different places where

their anxiety tends to lodge. What we want to do is talk

today about this quote fear of the marketplace this fear of situational or location anxiety.

What happens when you develop agoraphobia, you can begin to isolate yourself and be stuck at home.

And this is another reason to consider being with people who are working on moving out of this. You're stuck in your home, if you're still

on your computer, you're listening to this, you can get more resources. Go to our website

Anxietycoaches Podcast.com. Lots of good stuff on there for you to start looking at and expanding

your, expanding your world while you're still feeling okay at home.

Okay? There's lots of different ways that we have to move through this

and we want to move at the pace that doesn't upset you more.

There's a fine line between getting a little bit of exposure to what it is that you are fearing and

retrigoring yourself and sending yourself back at quite a number of steps.

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