Social Agoraphobia Sufferer - Escape to Safety

The agoraphobia sufferer has a need to escape to safety. She may be in a crowd of people, she may be alone in her phobic situation, but she feels trapped by her inability to detach herself quickly from the place where she is un¬comfortable and escape to her home or somewhere where she feels safe.

The person who suffers from social phobia does not have the same need to escape from a situation; it is other people he finds threatening, He cannot bear to be looked at, to have his body space invaded, to be touched, even inadvertently. Some sufferers find it physically impossible to touch or be touched by anyone other than members of their own immediate family.

Social phobics feel they are under scrutiny all the time; they imagine that all eyes are upon them and experience symptoms of acute anxiety, displaying outward signs of distress such as blushing, sweating and hyperventilating which they are sure everyone notices and despises them for. They are afraid of drawing attention to themselves, of being embarrassed by making a mistake or making fools of themselves. At the root of their shame is a fear of losing control in some way or not being able to continue what they are doing while they are being watched.

Social phobics often find themselves unable to relate to other people on any sort of personal level. They may have difficulty in expressing their emotions and feel that they cannot get close to others physically or emotionally; often, they are children who have had an over-protected upbringing, have not developed a sense of independence and are therefore unable to function adequately in an adult social world.



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