Although agoraphobia is already well-known early decades, however, it causes remain mysterious but specialists believed it is more true to say it is caused by number of causes rather than one.

o Born with agoraphobia ??most people are naturally born with agoraphobia in the sense that their body produces more adrenalin than other people.

o Living environment ??growing up with people who show avoidance traits in their behaviour can lead to avoidance behavior developing in the future.

o Aftermath effect ??people seems 'out of the blue' after first panic attack, they afraid to have another attack, so they end up in avoiding themselves from the last attacked location or situation.

o Stressful, frightening and agonizing event ??a stressful experience, frightening and agonizing memory can trigger people's emotional reaction and turn down to agoraphobia.

In dealing with agoraphobia, traditionally there are ways but work ineffective. Psychoanalytic and drug treatment was attempted but the result sometimes lead to major problem.

Up until now, there are two recognized therapies in helping sufferer to get rid of agoraphobia.

The first one is behavioral therapy where sufferer is taught to face their phobic situation. They have to imagine their fear situation and furthermore expose themselves in the real situation where the agoraphobia taken place. This exposure normally takes 2 -3 hours at the phobic place.

Second method is cognitive therapy; it is a kind of psychotherapy which is also useful to treat anxiety, depression and other forms of mental disorder. It involves recognizing unhelpful or destructive patterns of thinking and reacting, then modifying these with more realistic or helpful ones.

Both methods are powerful, but cognitive therapy adds much more benefit that behavioral therapy. By the way, the latter one is good enough to achieve its goal. It gave 70% success to remove phobia for people who completed the program. Cognitive therapy serves as preparation in case behavioral therapy is failed.