What is "agoraphobia"?

What is "agoraphobia"?

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Agoraphobia is the anxiety that you would be trapped in a place that would be difficult to escape from or where help, if needed, would be unavailable. This sometimes occurs in patients with panic disorder. Agoraphobia often develops a pattern of avoidance, because you want to actually stay away of places that you fear. Agoraphobia literally, in the Latin translation, means fear of the common place or fear of the market place.