Leaving the house can be a terrifying prospect for people with agoraphobia, who have a hard time feeling safe in public. While many are staying inside during the coronavirus pandemic, this is not the ...

Agoraphobia has gripped Cecil Jackson's life since he was 19 years old. He's one of an estimated 2 million adults in the United States who have the anxiety disorder that causes them to stay home to ...

Phobias are never pleasant for their sufferers, but in many cases it is possible to avoid the situations that trigger those feelings of fear. However, for agoraphobics, those avoidance techniques can ...

Few places are more evocative of early-pandemic anxiety than the grocery store. In that first year before vaccines, when we had much less information about how the coronavirus spread, a jolt of panic ...

One of the unexpected effects of the ongoing pandemic has been a surge in cases of agoraphobia. The condition is now keeping an untold number of Americans trapped inside their own homes, according to ...

Panic attacks are strongly associated with agoraphobia, which is an anxiety disorder involving the fear of not being able to escape a difficult or embarrassing situation. As a result of this fear, ...

AKRON, Ohio – Most of us have experienced a healthy dose of anxiety over the past year about leaving home and risking exposure to the deadly coronavirus. But for some of us, the anxiety is developing ...

People with agoraphobia are set to be offered virtual reality (VR) therapy on the NHS to help them overcome their fear of leaving the house. The treatment, which involves wearing a special headset, ...

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