Welcome back dudes and dudettes this is episode number one hundred fifty two of the anxious truth one five two

Today's topic is agoraphobia we're gonna talk about agoraphobia what it is what it isn't how it develops

How you treat it all of that?

The name of it of the episode is

agoraphobia explained or explaining agoraphobia haven't decided exactly what the title is gonna be

But a lot of people want me to explain agoraphobia and talk about it

So let's do that today. It's actually taking me a hundred and fifty two episodes to do this which I find amazing

But it's true. So today we're gonna talk about what agoraphobia is what it isn't some of the misconceptions

We're gonna talk about how it develops most commonly what it means the impacts and how you go about

Dealing with it from a recovery standpoint

But before we do and and this week

This is particularly germane to the topic because when I wrote this book

Which is called the anxious truth just like the podcast the subtitle of the book is a step-by-step guide to understanding and overcoming

panic anxiety and agoraphobia

So I literally wrote it directly into the wheelhouse of agoraphobics because I was one I was agoraphobic

multiple times in my life

So the book is called the anxious truth a step-by-step guide to understanding and overcoming anxiety panic and agoraphobia

It is written as a course and how to recover from an anxiety disorder and I wrote using agoraphobia as one of the models of

Recovery so if you're agoraphobic this book is definitely for you

I wrote it as a course and how to recover it goes step-by-step in a very logical sequence

Talk about how you got there what the nature of the problem is what's the nature of the solution how you make your recovery plan

It's incredibly detailed in terms of the steps you take to overcome agoraphobia

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