Tourist-agoraphobic: how to see the world, if you are scared to leave the house
Jackie Kenny can’t bring himself to go to the train or bus, but she found another way to travel to the farthest corners of the world.
Jackie Kenny agoraphobia. This means that the trip to the supermarket can trigger her panic attack and the fear of impending disaster. According to her, helps her Instagram account, with she and similar people can explore the far corners of the world.
43-year-old Jackie takes pictures using Google Street View — one of them nuns in Peru, on the other — high-rise building in Russia. These photos she publishes for 20 thousand subscribers to your account “Traveler-agoraphobic” (Agoraphobic Traveller).
From the age of 20, she is afraid of crowded places and public transport, despite the fact that living in Central London. However, according to her, the digital age gave her the opportunity to visit places that otherwise she would never be able to see.
I travel to any place that seems anything like a magic. This is a place where I would be very hard to come by, so I was inevitably drawn to them.Jackie Kinnitada agoraphobia
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The diagnosis of “agoraphobia” was put Jackie in 2009. Now with the help of the Internet service she chooses the most remote and a bit gloomy places on the planet and photographed them. According to Jackie, she likes anywhere where there is a sense of “another world”.
“These photos are a sense of isolation, but they also have the color and hope, she says. — The pictures I make reflect my feelings, and agoraphobia — them part.”
However, the feelings that she experiences, traveling thus to distant countries, stand in stark contrast with what she feels in daily situations.
A trip to the local supermarket calls it a nightmare and says that 10 years didn’t use metro.
“I’m anxious — palms sweating, heartbeat quickens, I start to think that his feet lifted from the floor,” she says.
In a head rush of thought: I’ll lose control, break all the aisles and everyone will see.Jackie Kinnitada agoraphobia
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Jackie first experienced a panic attack at the age of 23, when I lived in Australia — at work, in the midst of a busy day.