Gila Lyons is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Health, Healthline, Vice, Vox, and other publications. Her pieces have been anthologised in books and collections, most recently in About Us: Essays from the Disability Series of the New York Times (2019), edited by Peter Catapano and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. She lives in Boston.

Written by Gila Lyons

Illustration of a traffic jam from a driver’s view with road signs and a phone alert on heavy traffic.

How to overcome agoraphobia

Are you trapped by a dread of public, open or enclosed places? Reclaim your freedom by following these manageable steps

by Gila Lyons