Some people wonder if anxiety can get so bad that you end up being home-bound, which is where you can’t leave your house. I would say there is definitely a possibility for that because they’re quite a few people that never leave their home. Because they’re scared to death about what might happen to them!

There are tons of phobias out there that have fancy names, of which I’m not mentioning that describe the above type of condition I mentioned above. But, I don’t think it’s any one thing, I think it’s a combination of things.

Because were all born into this world without a care in the world. And we don’t have any bills to pay and don’t have anything to worry about at the moment we are born. So over the years, we of course develop our own idiosyncrasies, and our little habits and patterns of the way we do things throughout our life.

When you add all that up, what you’ve done in your past can lead to issues such as anxiety. Now anxiety left untreated, could very easily grow into obsessive compulsive disorder, and maybe you are washing your hands all the time (like many people with OCD do), because you’re paranoid about what germs are on your hands. A condition like that might lead to you being home-bound, because there are germs out there and everywhere else.

And if you go outside you will have to deal with those germs as well. So can anxiety lead to you being home-bound? I would say definitely, but only in extreme cases. That is my honest opinion.