Is agoraphobia an illness?
It can be argued that (see Liotti 1996), as with many psychological conditions, agoraphobia is a label that medicalises and depersonalises a common experience. This is problematic because symptoms and experiences of agoraphobia vary a great deal from person to person. It is perhaps possible to think of agoraphobia as a spectrum disorder, i.e. most people, at some point in their life, have experienced a degree of panic when in unfamilar places. If this spectrum disorder description of agoraphobia is accurate we must question its status as a medical condition or illness. Other related archivesAgoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder, Ancient Greek, Attachment theory, Auric Goldfinger, Boo Radley, Bowlby, British, Canasta, DSM cautionary statement, DSM-IV-TR, Game On, Goldfinger, Greek, Harper Lee, Ian Fleming, Latin, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Phobia, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Separation anxiety disorder, Social Phobia, To Kill a Mockingbird, adrenaline, agora, anti-anxiet
