How long have you suffered?

[brandon_r_edson]

I'm getting close to about 5 or 6 years. However I also suffer from mild agorophobia. Yeah, my life sucks.

[sunshine16]

I've suffered all my life (14 years)

[stef]

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[Babydoll]

I probably would say it became a phobia when I was about 16.. Im 23 now.

[arialmina]

15 looooooonnnnnnnng years. I am 26

[trinity_13]

Ihad my first experience of the fearwhen i was about 5 years old so for me its 29 years

[stella9]

FOREVER





Stella

[gubba]

I'm 41 and I don't ever remember not being afraid of V*.


Not a great thought for those of you who are 14, but I have survived thus far and I have a wonderful son, so it goes to show you that you can do pregnancy and even cope with kid V* and still manage to talk about it.

[kel12347]

16 years

[spilled_milk]

Ummm...since I was very little. I'm fifteen, so...12-15 years?


&lt;3 Anya--

[meercat]

I'm almost 38, and i've fear V* as far back as i have memory! Yes, this DOES SUCK!!!! Thank GOD, we're not alone!

[brandon_r_edson]

So it seems like a lot of us youngens have a lot of years ahead of us to look forward to. Dang.

[*mandi*]

I've been suffering this for the past 20 years. ITs ahorrible thing to deal with. I also have agoraphobia. I sue to have it really bad...where I woudlnt leave the house at all!! But now I get out some. The farthest I'll go is about 20 minutes away!

[pookey30]

I'm 35 this month and my mother says it started when I was 4 when I was forced to drink half a pint of warm milk at school. I then v*. So. a long time and it just gets worse. A am at a time in my life where it is worse than ever.


31 long miserable years !!!


Pookey

[ontariogirl]

I will be 40 in 13 days and this began for me at the age of 9, so that is 31 years.
I suffered from agoraphobia to.
brandon_r_edson don't become too discouraged with how long we have been suffering from this phobia.

[gubba]

I don't even think about how long it has been. There are times that are worse and times that are better and I knwo that if we did not have this fear, we could have something much worse. I look at it this way, it has been a long 41 years, but most of the times have been good and while I fear this thing daily and I mean DAILY, 24/7, I put it behind me knowing that I cannot change it except by trying to do thine things that I want to do and enjoy them. I do that now and yes, I do still think about V* constantly, but it is a small part of each thought usually, unless I see or hear of it and then it is a bigger part, but I still go on. We must enjoy life and know that this is just a part of it and that we will all surivive...some days will be awful, but make the others good ones[img]smileys/smilies_01.gif[/img]

[rhi*]

the first time i remember having the fear wud be wen i was about 6 i fink and im 17 now so too long!!!!

[x hannah x]

Since I was about 4 - so 11 years. wow thats scary. I do not want to be reaching 20 something years.

[sillygirl]

My husband just asked me this same question - 17 years! SOme have been better than others, of course. I think I am actually starting to get back on a "better" period.


Brandon - I'm from Colorado! I have lived around the Westminster area my whole life. How about you?

[wing]

Since I was four years old, so that is 12 years for me.