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Goals not Resolutions ---- Happy New Year from your friendly neighborhood agoraphobic!

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Resolutions for 2018 NO I don't do resolutions I DO GOALS! Drink more WATER Go out more and oh..... BECOME A BUTTERFLY Metamorphosize or..... Go to the grocery store and shop ALONE without my heart racing, chest hurting, face getting purply red, losing my breath, feeling like I'm going crazy, getting tunnel vision, getting dizzy, feeling like I'm going to faint from the massive panic attack I'm describing and oh yeah, by the way..... RECOVER FROM AGORAPHOBIA Yeah, I said it..... I'm not ashamed. I won't feel guilty! I did not choose this. It's a DISORDER not a DECISION! ' Hi, I have Agoraphobia Imagine needing eye drops, craving Taco Bell, and wanting some specific grocery items, and needing a haircut and your ear and throat hurt horribly. Your eyes feel like sandpaper, you are CRAVING a bean burrito BAD, and you NEED those groceries. But, guess what? YOU CANNOT go get them. You can't even get a simple h...

Doctors joke about "Period Rage" .... I am PMDD

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PERIOD RAGE "The Doctors" make a joke of PMDD I have been a longtime fan of the TV show "The Doctors." The show features Dr. Travis Stork, Dr. Nita Panel, and Dr. Andrew Ordon. Recently, they featured a story where a woman said she got so mad during her "PMDD" that she felt she could murder her husband. Apparently the doctors, excluding the only female doctor Nita Panel, thought it was a great joke and had a lot of laughs at thousands of women's expense.  Television shows are created for ratings. Everyone is aware of that fact. However, a TV show that is meant to educate on medical conditions is adding stigma and makes jokes about a very serious disorder. Dr. Ordon, most prominently, advised men to date a women "a few cycles" before proposing and blamed "aggressive driving" on women with PMDD. When Dr. Nita Panel tried to explain the seriousness of this disorder she was spoken over and ignored. I am appalled and y...