The Woman in the Window

by A.J. Finn

As a doctor, I say that the sufferer seeks an environment she can control. Such is the clinical take. As a sufferer (and that is the word), I say that agoraphobia hasn’t ravaged my life so much as become it.

“My dear girl, you cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”

And if I don’t want to die, I’ve got to start living.