Social media star Garron Noone has opened up about his battle with agoraphobia.
The musician shared his struggle with the anxiety disorder on Ray D’Arcy’s show on RTÉ Radio 1.
Garron has become one of Ireland’s best-known social media personalities, but before internet stardom, he struggled with agoraphobia.
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Speaking to Ray, the pair discussed Garron’s decision to leave school at a young age.
“You left school at what age?” Ray asked.
“I was around 14 or 15 when I left school; when I left school, at the time, I was having bad panic attacks,” Garron revealed.
The 30-year-old shared he used to be agoraphobic and couldn’t leave his house for four or five years.
He shared that after his friend had passed, he was triggered into believing he was going to die.
“I think I was about 15 when it kicked it. One of my friends had died, and that triggered this thing in me where I thought I was going to die basically,” he shared.
Garron explains his mental health got so bad that he couldn’t leave the house without having 3 to 4 panic attacks a day.
He said about his teen years, “I got a job at 18, but I would just get a taxi to work and get a taxi home.”
“I didn’t get out; for ten years, I didn’t socialise or anything.”
Garron credits CBT Therapy for helping him learn how to get through his mental health battle.
He says of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, “So you just take really small steps. It’s quite hard to get out of, but if you go through treatment, it’s very fixable.”
Agoraphobia is a type of anxiety disorder.
It involves fearing and avoiding places or situations that might cause panic and feeling trapped, helpless or embarrassed.
