Open Question Why do I get scared of leaving my room? Basically, I am studying at university and am in a house with 4 other housemates. I am friends with all of them and one I even really really like. I live on the top floor which it the attic to a 2-storey house, and I am pretty cut off. there are quite a few stairs leading up to my room which seperates me from everyone else. When I've been on my own for more than an hour and I wanna do something, like go down to the kitchen and make food, I go out of my room and just at the door I can hear if anyones downstairs in the kitchen. If there is, I start getting extremely nervous sometimes to the point of nearly crying and feel as if I wanna just run back in my room. Everything tells me to go back inside, and its usually very difficult for me to push past that anxiety. Once im downstairs its fine.. but I dont see why I have that fear in the first place. Whn Im out and about im very socialble, I like going out, but why is leaving my room so difficult?