First Published in 1988. This book is for people who experience the type of fear that prevents them from doing what most of us take for granted. It is for the person who is frightened to leave the house or go very far from the house, who cannot go into shops or pubs, wait in a queue, travel on a bus or train, go to a cinema or theatre, or have a meal in a restaurant. It is for those of you who feel panic-stricken if you are left alone in the house or if you have to enter a small-enclosed space such as a lift or bus. From time to time some of you may have experienced the very unpleasant sensation that you were not real or that things around you were not real. Others may have experienced the terror of a panic attack.