Okay my anxiety used to be super high when I went outside and interacted with people. According to cbt you have to sit in your anxiety until it calms down. Now I’m not say start with a giant thing like going to a concert but maybe something simpler like going to the park and enjoying the park. The key is not to focus on your anxiety but your breathe and try and stay calm, drink lots of water and avoid stimulants when doing this. Just sit outside in a park for five minutes. It doesn’t really matter how long it is either. Having overcome this illness by taking medicine daily and then pushing myself to get over my anxiety and depression I’m able to do this and many more things. One thing I tell myself when I have a bad day is maybe tomorrow will be better. It’s a mantra I have when I have a bad day. I challenge you to start believing in yourself and the great person you are. We are normal. We have the same problems as everyone else. They are just in a more extreme fashion.
Because my kitty is an indoor cat and I’d rather be inside with him 
i am fed up combatting my paranoia without relieve… that s why i spent most of time at home but i am still trying meds cause i am really pissed off of this 
I go in the woods alot. But not around towns.
I try to get outdoors at least once a week. On the 21st, Monday, I had such a great day. I went for a walk that was about 8 miles long. I napped at a local park, too.
You see, I figure if I lounge or straight up sleep at a park, my mental frequency will change or become more accustomed to that area and I’ll feel much safer overtime.
This is why we all feel safe at home, according to my theory, because we developed a mental safety net by frequently relaxing at home. I’m trying to do that at a local park + near the beach so that I can hopefully put to rest a lot of paranoia about my immediate locality.
I don’t go out much. Apart from having my depot my main reason for going out is to go to a small cafe I know. Seeing lots of people with other people just rams home how isolated I am. All I would do anyway if not sitting in the cafe would be to wander down the high street window shopping,which gets boring after a short while.
It was different when I was seeing my befriender. Having company made all the difference.
that is one of the greatest ideas i have ever heard about. i go to a support group in my neighborhood every afternoon around lunchtime. i can walk there so it gives me incentive to leave my house. i don’t feel safe there yet, though, despite the fact that i have been doing this for the past ten years. i just kind of freak out. and i feel like everyone can hear my thoughts. 
I am going to group tomorrow morning. I think. I may just sleep in. I like to sit on my back porch and walk in the back yard. there are large tall pines in my back yard along with some pecans and elms. beautiful to get in nature and good for you for fighting the anxiety by getting out. that’s how I beat it too.
it use to be anxiety and paranoia
now it’s more because there isn’t a lot i’d like to do out there besides exercise.
with internet, netflix, tv, all that crap and hobbies i can be distracted and live like a hermit inside pretty well.
so much so to the point that you can do your shopping online! when i worked though i was outside all the time that was pre-diagnosis/during diagnosis though.
If there was still a daily drop in near me I’d be out of the flat every day.
I have no problem staying indoors, but it often makes me worry if I don’t interact with other people now, I would get really lonely someday. I consider myself happy, but I’m sure I can do more to improve my life. The biggest problem is I don’t have the drive to get outside and meet people every day. I’m trying to do the least I can do like taking a walk outside from time to time.
i also have a hard time leaving the house. i get paranoid and agoraphobic. but, i go to AA every afternoon, and there, i am around others with similar problems. for the remainder of the day, i will do some errands on the way home. once i am home, i just want to put on my PGs and stay inside for the rest of the day. i sit by my computer and go on-line to read, etc.
even though so many of my sp symptoms are gone, i am still afraid of meeting new people and maintaining relationships. i just get too paranoid and too awkward. i feel like everything that comes out of my mouth is idiotic and irrelevant. when i am on-line, i don’t feel judged.
Daisy Mae