I think my agoraphobia started from my teens, when I used to be tormented by other teenagers, and these were teenagers I didn't know. I did have bitchy girls being mean in school, but that is common in teenage girls anyway. But when I got tormented by kids from my school who I didn't really, it was when I was walking home from school.
So, those experiences have generated agoraphobia, which developed in my late teens/early 20's.
Strangers picking on me when walking alone in the street = agoraphobia, in my case. So that is why I suffer with agoraphobia today. It does ruin my life.
When I was 15-16 I got sexually harassed while walking home from school, by these stupid 13-year-old boys. One of them used to keep trying to touch my bum, and even pulled his trousers and underwear all the way down when I was walking through an alleyway, and the others attempted to push me into the bushes. I don't think they were actually going to rape me, they were just trying to humiliate me and piss me off. But it was still horrible for me. There's not a lot the school can do when you're being treated like that when walking home.
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10 Oct 2016, 5:20 pm
