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A panic attack can feel overwhelming. Your heart races, your chest tightens, and it suddenly feels impossible to breathe. While these moments can be frightening, they don’t last forever, and there are ...

The 20-year-old says she has suffered panic attacks since the incident, and has filed a suit that alleges that officers ...

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 ...

Kate was driving when all of a sudden she felt dizzy, had trouble breathing, felt her heart pounding; she thought she might be having a heart attack. Fortunately, she was able to immediately pull off ...

I was 16 the first time I woke up feeling like I was dying. My chest was tight and burning, and I struggled to catch my breath. I looked around the room: Radiohead posters on the walls in the glow of ...

Chest tightness. Racing heartbeat. Shortness of breath. Sweating. For many, these symptoms trigger a familiar thought: “It’s just anxiety.” But what if it’s not? Health experts warn that ...

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, ...

The building's maintenance man struggles with panic attacks and anxiety. The apartment building is falling apart, and its superintendent, Maintenance Mike, is nowhere to be found! The group learns ...