Anyone ever suffered agoraphobia when alone but not when with someone they trust?
My wife had a breakdown in the street about 4-5 months ago, we were walking the dogs, I took her dog off her and we went home. She was diagnosed with depression and has been off work since, on 10mg and then 20mg Citalopram.
She has done amazingly well in recovery and is now not panicking (noticeably at least) when we have to go out shopping or to someone's house or to do errands for the dog rescue we work for. The only thing she has now is a fear of being out without me, as I've had panic attacks before she knows I'll read the signs and get her out. She tried to go into work last week for a coffee and chat, building up to going back, but she got to the end of the road and had to turn around. She now thinks she's a failure and hates herself for not being strong enough.
So now we're back to her being low and feeling rubbish. She's seeing her doc tomorrow and I'm off work in the morning so was planning to take her into work after docs and go in with her for a coffee and chat, basically so she gets over some of that 'back to school' anxiety. My plan was next to try to get her to go out on her own for a walk around the block, then see if she wants to go further, maybe at a weekend see if she can walk to work and back. I'm not sure if it's the anxiety of work or just being outside.
Anyone else have anything like this? It's almost as if she was depressed, got over most of that and now has agoraphobia, which has now resulted in depression!