Your agoraphobia prevents you from working, yet you think you can travel the country by yourself? Time for a reality check.
Why not try Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and learn what it is to be response-able? You claim pot can treat anxiety but you have no way to test that because you don't actually leave the house?
Sabbath I thought you were smarter than this.
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Agoraphobia isn't necessarily a consistent condition. Mine goes on and off depending on the current experiences I'm having with my panic attacks. My diagnosis would technically be termed panic disorder w/ agoraphobia, because the panic disorder occasionally turns into debilitating agoraphobia. That's what makes me unemployable. During these periods, I tend to stay inside because I hate having panic attacks when I'm around big groups of people (and its quite hard to control when I'm around large groups).
As for your idea of me just sitting in my house smoking pot all day... I find it ridiculous. This fear of having panic attacks in certain places that I explained above is essentially what leads to an agoraphobia diagnosis, not the fact that I tend to stay inside when I'm like that. I hope I've educated you on what agoraphobia is, because you obviously have no idea after reading your post...
And for ACT, which you seem to swear by... that is essentially what I am doing in going on this journey. I am accepting my panic disorder and kind of just letting it lead me down a road less traveled. Instead of listening to the "medical professionals," who seem to be nothing more than professional moneymakers for the big pharmaceutical companies and themselves nowadays, I'm taking my own approach to recovery. Marijuana is a natural, harmless, therapeutic tool, that has been proven to help some people who suffer from anxiety disorders. It's been used for thousands of years as a stress reliever. There is no argument there.
Think about the doctors today though...the psychiatrist's first line of treatment (SSRIs) for people like us has just been proven to be no more successful than placebo... They are just passing out pills and using us as their guinea pigs. The sad part is that most people are accepting this approach, listening to the doctors and taking the drugs that the doctors get paid to prescribe. The pharmaceutical business is out of control when it comes to psychiatry. It's become more about money than healing people, and that's where I draw the line.
A new perspective on life in general is what I feel that I need right now. I will certainly achieve that goal by going on this trip.
Peace
