Emphasis Preaching Journal

Intense anxiety can cripple us. Agoraphobia is a growing problem around us -- agoraphobia being an intense, irrational fear of leaving a well-defined area, such as one's home or immediate neighborhood. During a recent television program a woman told her story of having the opportunity to live in one of the most exciting cities in the world for two and a half years, but she did not experience much of the city or its sights. She suffered panic-anxiety attacks in this new place, became agoraphobic, and rarely saw anything outside her apartment building and the route to her psychiatrist.