Rain
24-09-13, 11:16
I have suffered from Agoraphobia and extreme social anxiety for twelve years. This makes it very hard for me to go anywhere where there are people, which is pretty much everywhere. I have had psychotherapy, Cognitive behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy. Nothing has worked.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an advertisement for walking boots. They were going to be sold extremely cheaply – in fact for €21.99 (£18.50) – by a large discount store. These offers are specific to certain days and sell out very quickly as there is a limited stock of the item.
I had a strange attraction to these boots, despite the fact that I have a very expensive pair of walking boots already. My partner got up at dawn the morning they were on offer and drove 20 miles into town to queue up and grab them, before driving 45 miles in the opposite direction to work.
The boots were as nice as I thought they’d be from the photograph and a perfect, comfortable fit. I told myself that they were magic boots and that they would help me overcome my agoraphobia.
So, on the morning of Friday 13th September I took my first steps in the local wood for a very long time, wearing my magic boots. Since then I have walked there every morning.
I go very early when there are hardly any people about but it is still progress. It is lovely to walk amongst the trees, to smell the piney scent, feel the pine needles crunch underfoot and to see the river, the lake and the waterfall. It is great for my health to walk every morning and my partner and dogs love it too.
So, good changes are happening in my world, and it’s all thanks to my magic boots.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw an advertisement for walking boots. They were going to be sold extremely cheaply – in fact for €21.99 (£18.50) – by a large discount store. These offers are specific to certain days and sell out very quickly as there is a limited stock of the item.
I had a strange attraction to these boots, despite the fact that I have a very expensive pair of walking boots already. My partner got up at dawn the morning they were on offer and drove 20 miles into town to queue up and grab them, before driving 45 miles in the opposite direction to work.
The boots were as nice as I thought they’d be from the photograph and a perfect, comfortable fit. I told myself that they were magic boots and that they would help me overcome my agoraphobia.
So, on the morning of Friday 13th September I took my first steps in the local wood for a very long time, wearing my magic boots. Since then I have walked there every morning.
I go very early when there are hardly any people about but it is still progress. It is lovely to walk amongst the trees, to smell the piney scent, feel the pine needles crunch underfoot and to see the river, the lake and the waterfall. It is great for my health to walk every morning and my partner and dogs love it too.
So, good changes are happening in my world, and it’s all thanks to my magic boots.