Agoraphobia and schizophrenia

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My agoraphobic episodes are a bit psychotic too.
When I told my ex pdoc about these episodes where my feet sink in the ground, the road changes, getting taller and uphill etc. he increased my antipsychotics.
When I am outside in the road I feel I will faint.
I must sit somewhere or have a family member with me. But even this doesn’t help.
When I am in a queue, I get dizzy, I wanna shout “get the hell out of here” and swear and run outside etc.

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In my agoraphobic episodes, reality is distorted, everything is a mental dream, a nightmare, my spirit gets out of my body, I sweat, I think I’m going to faint, I can’t see clearly, I have blurry vision, I am looking for exit etc

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My schizophrenia makes agoraphobia worse.
Anxiety triggers me, so I have psychotic confusion/disorganized thought, distortion, derealization etc

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Sorry to hear of all this @Om_Sadasiva. Must be hard being agoraphobic. I couldn’t imagine being frightened of wide, open spaces. Hope you start feeling better soon.

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I had agoraphobia again 5 or 6 years ago,
dizzy outside of my house. Safe inside my house.
But after some months it stopped.
I don’t understand why and how.

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I’m an Agoraphobic since I was a kid.
I have a difficult time going places outside of my home.
Til this day it’s very difficult for me to venture off past a half a mile circumference from my home.

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Does your schizophrenia worsen agoraphobia?
Do you also have psychotic symptoms when anxiety attacks?

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I’m not sure whether I’m a little agoraphobic or not. I’m not one of those who can’t leave my home. If I do however it’s to go within a very small area that I know. I do have a poor sense of direction . The thought of going beyond the small area I know is anxiety provoking. I’m fearful of getting lost and going into hysterical,meltdown mode .

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I had strange illusions where the road ahead of me seemed to never end.

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I hope no one was playing ’ The long and winding road’ at the time .

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I got this delusion going to the beach getting sucked up by quicksand, or in the water getting eaten by sharks. I used to love my beachwalks back in the years.

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My comment of thought insertion was removed, deleted by mods. I don’t understand why

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my agoraphobia is getting worse and worse. I rarely leave the house anymore, and I’m terrified to drive.

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Really? I think the more you stay home and avoid interaction, the more intense the agoraphobia gets. We need to be exposed to the source of our phobia

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I’m OK , as when I do go out on my own it’s within the area I know. I just don’t have the inclination to go out much .

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I can only assume you spend your days at home sitting or lying down. Maybe that’s why you feel lightheaded outside?

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Lightheaded, that’s correct. Maybe

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I definitely don’t disagree with you – regarding the more you stay home, the worse the phobia gets. But leaving the house and facing the agoraphobia is tough, and that’s what I struggle with currently. It seems to come and go

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I go outside 3 times a day to fight agoraphobia. I find its less difficult than staying inside all of the time, only going out when absolutely necessary.

I used to have it so bad that I couldn’t even look outside without having a panic attack.

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Today I went to a shop to print some photographs from my phone.
I went first in the morning, before other clients come, cos queue makes me panic