Agoraphobia or panic disorder visual aids

I suffered from panic disorder and agoraphobia for over twenty years. Having shared my life with these terrible companions for that length of time, it’s only natural that I learned some tricks to make me feel less uncomfortable whenever I had to go out and about. I’ll share some of the things that I discovered here.

One of the symptoms of anxiety, which, I’ve been told and totally agree with, underlies both of these maladies, is that it seems to turn the brightness of your eyesight up to the maximum.

The first thing I tried, with some success, was to wear sunglasses. For me, I found that the best color was brown. I tried gray but these didn’t seem to work at all for me. If you’re going down this route, I would strongly suggest that you play around with some different colors to find which one suits you best. If you find it hard to get out to try some on in the store then, perhaps, getting a friend or loved one to pick up some transparent plastic sheet from you local craft store may help you in making your decision. I paid a couple of dollars per roll and got a whole host of colors. It was interesting to see that different colors affected my emotions in different ways. For example, red made me feel a little angry and agitated and blue made me feel sad. I didn’t believe this until I tried it for myself.

Something else that I tried, again, with some success, was to wear a hat. I preferred a baseball cap and found that the peak blocked out a lot of the bright light from the sky. And, if I started to feel very uncomfortable, I would pull the peak down so that all I could see was the ground right in front of me. This, combined with the sunglasses, made going out for me just about tolerable even though I did get some strange glances when it was raining.

Now, I did discover something else, quite by accident. It happen whilst I was on a camping vacation which, is another story all in itself. I was sitting in the tent one morning and looking out of the window. I noticed that the view made me feel uncomfortable, however, if I looked through the mesh kitchen window/vent, the discomfort went away. This amazed me, so much so that, when I returned home I got on the Internet and searched for some spectacles, which had mesh where the glass lenses should be. My search proved to be unfruitful and I did toy with the idea of making some myself but somehow, I never got around to it.

I never forgot the relief that the mesh gave me though and a couple of years later, I found myself doing the same search once more to see if someone had come up with something suitable in the meantime. Again, there was nothing to be seen but what I did find was something of a far greater value. I actually stumbled across the system that I used to eliminate my agoraphobia, panic disorder and anxiety disorder altogether. Imagine that? It was like winning the lottery.

Agoraphobia and its partners in crime, panic attacks and anxiety disorder, made my life a misery. And the sad thing was that I didn’t know just how badly affected by them I was until I started to recover. If you or your loved one suffers with a phobia, in anything like the way that I used to, you have my deepest sympathy. However, they can be beaten without the use of drugs. From a long list of therapies that I tried, The Linden Method was the only one that worked for me. Period.