Congratulations on pushing through that fear! I've been there, and I know how restrictive the anxiety can be.
Perhaps it's not obvious from what I talk about here, but there are many things I can do now - or at least have done recently - that would have been unthinkable to me a few years ago. Going to shops is one example; I had to shop for myself every other day when I lived away at university. Going on a bus is another one that I can do if I need to these days but which took a whole lot of psyching myself up and researching exactly what to say!! at the beginning.
The issue these days isn't that I'm too scared to go anywhere, it's that that there's nowhere to go. It's frustrating. I can do the mundane stuff if I need to, but then it just becomes a chore and the fundamental issues remain. Unfortunately!
(I don't go to the shop often these days just because it's so inconveniently far away that I can't easily walk there and back, which is a situational annoyance.)
Perhaps it's not obvious from what I talk about here, but there are many things I can do now - or at least have done recently - that would have been unthinkable to me a few years ago. Going to shops is one example; I had to shop for myself every other day when I lived away at university. Going on a bus is another one that I can do if I need to these days but which took a whole lot of psyching myself up and researching exactly what to say!! at the beginning.
The issue these days isn't that I'm too scared to go anywhere, it's that that there's nowhere to go. It's frustrating. I can do the mundane stuff if I need to, but then it just becomes a chore and the fundamental issues remain. Unfortunately!
(I don't go to the shop often these days just because it's so inconveniently far away that I can't easily walk there and back, which is a situational annoyance.)