You can stay home where you’ll be safe.” About 1.3 percent of U.S. adults experience agoraphobia, an anxiety disorder that causes an intense fear of becoming overwhelmed, helpless or judged.

In a piece for Processing, a Stylist Frame Of Mind series, Amrit Bhabra shares how agoraphobia has prevented her from doing so many of the things she thought she would do by the time she hit her 20s.

According to the National Institutes of Health, agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear or anxiety when one is in situations where escape might be difficult or help ...

During the pandemic, author Joanna Cannon suffered a relapse of the agoraphobia – a fear of open spaces that often leaves sufferers housebound – that had plagued her as a teenager. Here ...