People report that panic attacks make you feel like your going to die. Your heart races, chest tightens, hands tingle, and overwhelming dread convinces you something catastrophic is happening. Yet ...

You wake up one morning, happy that your life is finally on track. But even under the veil of turning lemons into lemonade, something isn’t right. You don’t feel completely in control, and at times ...

A sudden racing heart, breathlessness, chest tightness, dizziness, or an overwhelming fear of dying. For many people, a panic attack feels indistinguishable from a medical emergency. These intense ...

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For anyone who has experienced a panic attack, you know they’re hell. Panic attacks are sudden surges of fear, panic, or anxiety (and often all simultaneously). They cause both negative physical and ...

I think there is a misapprehension that those of us in the mental-health field who write self-help books do so from a clinical distance and without personal experience with the content that we present ...

Once again, Clune doesn’t follow the standard quest plot, a tidy arc from diagnosis to cure. Still, in capturing the symptoms, he is spot-on. Through the first-person narration of his protagonist, ...

Just when I thought I had a real handle on panic attacks (after all, I wrote a book on the topic), something new came to my attention. A number of people have recently mentioned that, during a panic ...