Anyone with agoraphobia?

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After reading a bit here, I realize I'm very agoraphobic. It's been so bad at times, that I start acting like an undercover officer just so I can feel safe, cause most people leave cops alone. I would do things like drop a dollar bill by the window of a restaurant I had just eaten at if I felt that the people inside were plotting against me. I would look around and do irrational things before picking the dollar back up. Most people probably thought I was crazy. However, at my scariest times, doing these things always made me feel much safer. I've even followed cops around town if I thought someone was following me, just to make the driver behind me think I was a cop. I just moved out of a gang ridden town, and now I'm feeling much happier living in the mountains, where few care to go.

After reading a bit here, I realize I'm very agoraphobic. It's been so bad at times, that I start acting like an undercover officer just so I can feel safe, cause most people leave cops alone. I would do things like drop a dollar bill by the window of a restaurant I had just eaten at if I felt that the people inside were plotting against me. I would look around and do irrational things before picking the dollar back up. Most people probably thought I was crazy. However, at my scariest times, doing these things always made me feel much safer. I've even followed cops around town if I thought someone was following me, just to make the driver behind me think I was a cop. I just moved out of a gang ridden town, and now I'm feeling much happier living in the mountains, where few care to go.

I don't know if I'm actually agoraphobic but I rarely leave the house.

It could be that I have separation anxiety disorder because I don't want to leave my house empty and don't want anything to happen to my stuff or my cat. It could also be related to social anxiety because I just want people to leave me alone.

When I read some of the things about agoraphobia I don't really relate to some of it.

Hmm, I have a strange Agoraphobia, where I feel afraid to walk out anywhere on my own but I am fine with walking to the nearest bus stop and getting on a bus. So if I went to a counsellor to talk about social anxieties when out in the street, they'll just look at me and go, ''but you're fine with getting buses on your own. That's may more than just walking up to the local shops.''

I think I get anxious of going out alone because of people staring at me. When I get on the bus, although people gawp at me when I go to a seat, I still find it easier because once I've sat down I can relax, put on my MP3 and don't have to face any obstacles, where as walking in the street I actually have a lot more responsibilities; crossing roads, looking where I'm going, et cetera. Also once I've sat down on the bus I don't feel as obliged to look at people and they don't look at me so much, where as when I'm walking or in shops I pass different people all the time and have to look at them, and if I don't look at them I'm either rushing past somebody who I know and appearing unfriendly to them, or looking nervous and getting upset when I can feel them staring in the corner of my eye. Well, I know I catch people in the street peering in the bus at me even though I'm not gawking out at them, even if I did look weird I still don't know how I can attract someone's attention when just sitting on a bus which is going past at about 40mph, I would have thought all people could see were figures in the windows, not exactly the details.

Yes. A few years back I stayed in my apartment for two months straight. I got dressed a few times only to go to the door and panic. once or twice I opened the door but never even stepped outside.

I gained so much weight in those two months and have still not lost it all. I have never been as active as I was prior to that traumatic time.

Since then I've gone two weeks straight without leaving my apartment. I know my reason for being agoraphobic is because of the many traumatic experiences I have had and they were all by the hand of other people and out of my control. I can't control anyone nor predict what will happen; I can only speculate. No matter how much good might/can happen it still is safer to not go not do just incase the bad happens.

I suffer from this problem, snd I suspect most of us aspies do. Social anxiety, OCD, phobias are all related.