Agoraphobia

[StLouisMike]

First off I hope that I have spelled Agoraphobia correct. I was told by a doctor after a nasty anxiety attack lasting a few days during a senior trip that I suffer from agoraphobia. The doctor reccomended medicine but, I refused to take it and would rather suffer from them than to take anti depressants all of my life. In the past few years I rarely suffer an anxiety attack but, I have not been out of town over night since. I recently had to turn down an opportunity to go on a trip with friends to L.A. because, my anxiety started coming back once I started thinking of the trip again. So it seems that the anxiety has never went away yet suppressed because I have not been out of town since my original attack. My senior trip was not the first time I have been out of the country or on my own. I have traveled oversees three other times going as far as Australia for a few weeks. Can anyone relate to this? Thanks

Mike