Originally Posted by OctaneHugo

I'm also an agoraphobic. I've grown up in this area my whole life, and I'm terrified to leave it ever. Started when I was about 10 or 11 and my parents got divorced - I remember my mom took me and my little sisters to visit relatives up north and I was just terrified for some reason, and ever since then any time I've had to leave this stretch of land (this city and the surrounding area down to the coast) I've been terribly nervous. It's curtailed in recent years, though the last time I went on any sort of trip was 2008.