
The Great Escape
A traumatic experience at work left teenage Angela Tilley with a lifetime of agoraphobia, until she and her husband found a way to begin escaping her relentless panic attacks.
Dr Sian Williams' guest on today's edition of Life Changing takes us into the often lonely and overwhelmingly anxious world of agoraphobia.
As a bright adventurous sixteen-year-old Angela Tilley was thrilled to get a job in a busy London office. But after a year's unwanted attention from one of her co-workers, attention that today we'd call stalking, she started having panic attacks on the way to work. The attacks became a debilitating daily occurrence, leaving her mentally and physically exhausted. Her courage in pushing back against her fears, forging a career and having a family came at a huge personal cost.
She talks to Sian about her challenges, and about the seemingly innocuous purchase that made a Life Changing difference, enabling her to stop her phobia defining her life.
Producer: Tom Alban
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