I wonder if anyone else feels even worse around their time of the month? The rest of the month I feel I can deal with my agoraphobia, and I manage to get myself out and about and also to work, but a week or so before my period (I always dread it coming too), I have really bad stomach churning, diarrhoea, knots in my stomach and an intense fear that I can't leave the house to go to work. It's a horrible cycle. I know it's just my hormones, but how does anyone else deal with them? Also, does anyone keep their anxiety to themselves and hide it from others? I feel really embarrassed about it all and nobody at work knows there's anything wrong with me. If I'm having a really bad day, I just go very quiet and into myself and then I worry that they're talking about me, and thinking that they think something's wrong at home. It's like I want to cover it up and not tell anybody, hoping it'll go away. I've so far got out of various outings with work using different excuses, but soon there will be other trips. I just want to be normal and not let this beat me, again.