Anxiety

Based on your answers, you may have agoraphobia without panic disorder.

Agoraphobia is the fear of any place where it might be difficult to escape -- like being in a theater or a crowded mall, or traveling on a bus or an airplane. People with agoraphobia avoid such situations to avoid the anxiety that goes with them. Fortunately, the anxiety never reaches the level of panic.

Agoraphobia is a very treatable illness. The symptoms or discomfort may improve or be eliminated by psychotherapy alone, or with the addition of antianxiety medication.

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Online Medical Reviewer: Faculty of Harvard Medical School Date Last Reviewed: 10/16/2006 Date Last Modified: 10/11/2006 Source: from Harvard Health Decision Guides, Harvard Health Publications, Copyright © 2007 by President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. Used with permission of StayWell.

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