What Is Agoraphobia? Netflix’s ‘The Woman in the Window’ Sheds Light on the Anxiety Disorder Health.com 5 hrs ago
Netflix s new thriller,
The Woman in the Window, tells the haunting story of a psychologist named Anna who is confined to her home with agoraphobia, a mental health condition that comes with an intense fear of leaving home. This is a safe place, she says at one point, after locking her doors. I m agoraphobic. I can t go outside, Anna says in another scene. Anna ends up witnessing a crime she s later told didn t happen, and struggles to figure out what s real.
After the events of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez let people know on Twitter that she was safe. She also hinted at the time that she would give more details about her experience in the future, writing, I ll tell y all about it later.
Now, it looks like later has come: Ocasio-Cortez opened up about the details of her experience in a lengthy Instagram Live video Monday night, and it s hard to hear. In the video, the 31-year-old congresswoman emotionally detailed exactly what she went through when armed insurgents broke into the Capitol building.
Ocasio-Cortez said the experience felt like a zombie movie, pointing out that she was running through the building in heels. She and a staffer locked themselves in her office bathroom and, at one point, a Capitol police officer who she mistook for a rioter banged on her door. She said she heard someone yell, Where is she? And I just thought to myself, They got inside, she recalled. I thought