/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7252792
Force yourself, I'm serious. I have similar problems now and I just take a xanax when it gets bad, otherwise just grit your teeth and go.
I used to suffer from agoraphobia, leaving 5m outside of my house would trigger strong panic attacks and once my mom took me to the store with her and I started crying and saying I wanna go home. I was twelve. She took me to a doctor and we started exposure therapy.
Contrary to the tumblr special snowflake mantra, "just telling someone to get over it" IS a legitimate way of treating anxiety. It works most of the time and there's a written guide by Dr. Edmund Bourne on how to beat it. Meds are temporary, they make you think that you can't do anything without them and that they're to you what spinach is to Popeye. So if you pardon my language, please dare to go bareback into the open world filled with scary people, it gets easier with time.