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When mental illness makes the outside world feel impossible

I developed agoraphobia after a series of panic attacks and I haven't left my house in six months except for absolute emergencies.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Safety and limitation become identical, creating a life preserved through radical shrinking of possibility.

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