The concept of agoraphobia and wanting to stay at home all the time used to be such a ridiculous concept for me. Nowadays, with the ease of communication, 2-year practice session we had of staying home, and plentiful information and entertainment we have from home, it seems more plausible.
I also see the proliferation of mental illness messaging helping people diagnose that in themselves and, instead of addressing it, they are finding company in misery and leaning right into it. Troubling.
That being said, I am at home more than ever with the family, friends who connect online, home garden and the dog. Am I becoming that?
I love the date night man. Sometimes hard to plan and actually get out there but I have to do more of that myself.
How many of these disorders are facilitated by culture? Were there agoraphobic cave people?
This is the same with a lot of these issues - like "incels" - what kind of group is that really?
Agoraphobic cavemen would have been the skinny ones.
Incels seems to be a big pity party to me like a modern he-man woman haters club. Easy for me to say having been married so long I suppose. ;)