I Have Anxiety

I get really bad anxiety about having to leave the house. I don't know why it isn't rational. I was looking up agoraphobia but that's due to fear of having panic attacks in public so you become avoidant of going outside and it's not like that for me. I don't get panic attacks when I leave, once I'm actually out of the house I'm fine. But knowing I have to leave can give me debilitating and painful levels of anxiety the whole week leading up to the event even if it is something positive that I enjoy like spending time with a friend. It's ridiculous and I don't know how to cope with it or what to do about it.

Luckily thanks to this pandemic I haven't had to deal with that anxiety in a quite a while so I am glad about that. Not glad for the pandemic but glad that I am getting a break from my anxiety.