white_feather
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Hello everyone. My name is Keith. I have had dreams of living in a van since my very early years. I can remember as far back as 1975 when my sisters were dating guys and hanging out with guys who had those custom painted vans with the interiors all made of crushed velvet. I remember watching Quincy and being jealous of him living on a boat. I love confined spaces. Let me tell you why I love confined spaces. I suffer from the severest form of agoraphobia. My agoraphobia did not allow me to travel far from my house. I mean less than 1000 feet from my house. I suffered from this for about fifteen years. I have always been uneasy about being away from home but it peaked at this point. Two years and five months ago I attempted suicide as I had had enough of this agoraphobia. I was put into a mental hospital for five days with nothing but a rubber pen and solitude to think about what I had done. There was a great deal of meetings and what they call therapy but it was ultimately up to me to get better. After the week was up I was released. I have not looked back. I have done some backsliding but I have been making gains ever since. Last summer I lived in a tent in a friends backyard. I had such a wonderful time. I have since bought a mobile home I could go to work daily with no problem. My work is over a mile away. Not much to anyone, but a huge thing for me. I don't like living in this mobile home. I want to go back to the tent but I cannot so I have decided to do the van thing. I hope to trade my mobile home here in the Cleveland suburbs for a van or sell it and outfit one. I look forward to reading and writing many posts.