IS AGORAPHOBIA A MENTAL ILLNESS/

Do Agoraphobics do this to themselves? Do they exhibit this behavior so they don't have to leave the house? So they can get rid of their friends and family? Can they get over this by proper thinking and putting themselves out there every day?

Some say they can. Most can't just get over it. Most would give anything to get rid of it.

According to the Wikipedia definition on mental illness it quotes the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association. According to them the word mental illness and neurological disorder are tossed about. The words Mental Disorder and Mental Illness are a source of contention. They can't figure how to apply them and to what.

At one time homosexuality was listed in the DSM  as mental illness but was removed when the American Psychiatric Association officially stated that homosexuality per se implies no impairment in judgement, stability, reliability or general social or vocational capabilities.

We have been told we need a psychiatrist to talk about our childhood and what was done to us. Lets face it everybody had something going on in their childhood. Some more traumatic than others. With this theory you fall into the victim mentality and never get better. It's so much easier to blame someone else.

The medical community gets out their machines. The MRI, the CAT SCAN, and any other contrivance they can think of. But the end result is always the same. Can't find anything wrong with you.

The people at Vision Specialists have found a lot wrong with you. They call it VERTICAL HETEROPHORIA. This is a condition where one eye is higher than the other.

Why don't we know about this? Because it has been uncommonly diagnosed and a poorly understood disorder. This is due in large part to the inconsistent performance of the current tests used to identify the direction and amount of VH which makes diagnosing, treating and researching this condition almost impossible.

I took my son to a vision doctor 3 months ago and asked that he be specially tested for VH. She passed a black spoon like device across his eyes and said no his eyes look perfect. At the Vision Specialists office it take 2 to 3 hours to diagnose this condition.

The only way desentization will work is if this problem is corrected first. Now you have to start taking baby steps back into the world you knew and loved.

Its in your eyes not your head.

Hugs to you all, Yolanda