Feeling Trapped: Coping with Agoraphobia and Social Isolation

Also thank you @ everyone for the kind words and understanding ;;; to everyone else in my family I’m lazy and burdensome and its been. really internalizing lately. If you guys want to reach out heres my discord too, maybe I can make an agoraphobe safe space server! hahaha. Cogito Ergo Sum#0233

@sprite I actually sent you a friend request, today! name UN on there is Cogito Ergo Sum#0233 I really appreciate the kind words, it means a lot ;;; especially about DID. It’s complicated, it’s like getting to know 30 people kind of when you get to know me. It’ll he nice to know someone who understands the same situation I’m going though, and hopefully we can pump each other up too 💪🏻

i wish i knew the first step. i’m in a similar situation right now. i isolated myself from all of my friends the past five years or so and now i just have one, so any time she’s not around i feel lonely as hell. social media makes me really anxious (not because of the jerks but just because my social anxiety is so bad) so i never interact with anyone there either. i don’t work because of my mental illness and especially my anxiety, so i don’t have any coworkers either. and now it’s like a double whammy because even if i had the courage to start talking to someone, there’s covid to deal with. so i don’t have any advice because i’m right there with you, but you’re welcome to reach out to me if you’d like someone to talk to. i don’t have did so i can’t relate to that, but i can certainly promise that it will be accepted by me. i’m 25 if that matters to you and my discord is sprite#1143 :)

Ill try that, thank you. I’ve already been thinking I need to be medicated for other things too, my family “doesnt believe in mental health medications” so I’ve never actually been give meds for anything before and I think they would probably help me cope significantly better. pfft.

I just want to say it can get better. For me I've needed medications to better control my social anxiety, it's definitely not cured though. Before being put on meds this year I was getting panic attacks even in my own home. I know it's extremely hard to think about talking to a new professional but you might benefit from having a psychiatrist. You can ask your therapist about a referral to one.