The disabling condition agoraphobia with panic disorder is explored across the life spans of three individuals who are related: 63 year old Grandmother, 43 year old Mother, and 23 year old Son. As their life stories are told, glimpses of experienced stigma, emotional management, creation of identities, and coping mechanisms are revealed. These are analyzed using the sociological theories of Goffman, Ellis, Cahill, and Davidson. The notion of nature versus nurture is most apparent in Sons story which details the effects of growing up with Grandmothers severe agoraphobic episodes....