Hi,
I've had PD/agoraphobia for 20 years now. about 6
years housebound, then varying dgrees of
"normalcy". Due to a series of life-changing
events, I'm now really bad with my panic again.
In 1999 my mother died in a fire that destroyed the
family home. Later that year I gave birth to my son.
In 2001 I lost my job, as the place I worked at went
under. Then, just before christmas 2001, I was in
a bad car accident. I had to move up North to care
for my elderly father in summer 2002. Two weeks
after I moved, my son was diagnosed with
leukemia. The treatment involved going to the
hospital 200km away three to four times a week for
the first year.
Last January, my father died while I was in hospital
with my son. This last month, my sister, who owns
the house my son and I were living in, had a
mental breakdown and became violent-throwing
things and cutting phone wires, so I had to pick-up
and run and live in a tent for a few days with my
son until my friend, his father, was able to leave
work and bring us down to his house in the city.
I'm now so afraid of being alone, I don't know
where to start. I need to learn quick, as I have run
out of money to hire people to "babysit" me, while
my friend is at work.
Any suggestions would be very appreciated
