Top of the morning to you !!!!

[Cuchculan]

Quick hello from Dublin, Ireland. The land of rain and more rain. Agoraphobic here. Which I don't put down to sheltering from all that rain. Also a big time Emetaphobic. The fear of throwing up. But I still get on with my life. I like to go out daily. I can feel bad sitting in and I can feel just as bad if I go out. So I figure I may as well go out and have a reason for feeling bad. Plus it gets me a little bit of exercise. Was housebound for about a decade. But think I just got fed up looking at the walls in my bedroom. So decided it was time to fight back. Slowly got myself out and about again. The anxiety is still there. But I feel like I can manage it a lot better these days. We live and we learn as we go along. Hope to make some friends on your good site here. Help a few people out if I can. Nice meeting you all, whoever reads this. Maybe I should have titled it ' free points of guinness ' and I would have had everybody wanting to jump in the thread to get a taste for the black stuff. Any roads. That is what I am all about. ' Walks slowly out of the introduction post '.

[tailspin]

Hi there Cuchculan! Welcome to the site! It's great you've made a lot of headway with your agrophobia. Good on you! I have some of that emetaphobia too. It was worse when I was younger, but it's still there now. I really hope you like it here at the site and I'll look forward to seeing you around! Cheers! :-)

[Cuchculan]

Thank you for the kind welcome. Nice place you have here. Look forward to getting to know people.

[petrified]

Hi welcome to the forum. I've found this forum great its helped me a great deal and everyone on here is like my extended family lol. It's a great place to get advice, have a moan and have some fun. I hope you like it here and it get as much as I have from here :-)

[jessed03]

Uh oh, you know things are about to get good when the Irish arrive. ;)

I haven't dealt with the types of anxiety you have, but I do know the emotion that lives at the core of them. One thing we all share here, despite our choice of fear/phobia.

I hope you manage to achieve some breakthroughs down the line.... and meet a few interesting people too along the way! (Its about time the condition gives something back!)

[NeverToo...Fear]

Welcome to AF.. glad to have you here! I'm sure you'll like this place, and meet great people you can relate with....and you can stay here as long as you like--granted you can really provide that free Guinness.. :D ...........:P

[Cuchculan]

I'll hand over the guinness if you give us some of that Florida sun. There's a fair deal for you. LOL. Your winters are warmer than our summers. We want your heat, we have to jump in the oven at gas mark 9 for about 2 hours.

Jess seems to know the Irish well. Is it about this time I act like a saint?

Thank you all for making me feel so at home.