Up from Agoraphobia: How to Escape out of Your Prison of Fear

Author: McGuire, MikeEdition: 1Binding: Kindle EditionFormat: Kindle eBookNumber Of Pages: 39Release Date: 12-08-2014Details: One evening in 1980, a friend and I were chatting on a sofa. She turned to me and said, “Someone told me something about you that I have difficulty believing.”“Oh?” I responded.”What’s that?”“She said you used to be a recluse,” my friend related. “I find it hard to believe you were ever a recluse.”I said, briefly, I was housebound with agoraphobia for several years, but things are fine now.I had, indeed, come a long way from being the teen-aged boy who was confined to a small corner of his bedroom, sitting on the floor, afraid to move.People who had helped me overcome agoraphobia had urged me to write a book about my struggle with agoraphobia. I was, they said, considered to have been one of the worst cases and had not been expected to recover, but there I was.The book could have been of some value. At the time, there was still relatively little being written ab