Agoraphobia on tv programmes

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Agoraphobia on tv programmes . It's almost always shown as something a character has at a very high level. Often it's a character that hasn't been out of their flat/house for a long period of time, i.e years.
It's all about dramatic effect. The truth be damned.

The truth being that it isn't always that severe . Sometimes you can get out of the house, but you get really anxious of being in unfamiliar places on your own. The fear being you'll get lost and trapped. You can out of your flat/house on your own but stick to a very small , and safe, area that you know.

Yeah I think this is true generally of TV representation of mental/neurological conditions. They represent it at a severity any person can recognise it as that, hence also sticking to only the most stereotypical presentations.

I’m not suggesting that the portrayals of people with such things should be reduced to a 'Bet you can’t tell this person from a normal person" level. There’s a sensible point between that and a highly exaggerated depiction of something though.