I’ll never forget how helpless I felt witnessing my close friend roll into the fetal position on my college dorm room floor.
Through deep, labored breaths, she repeated, I’m dying. I knew she wasn’t, but her immense distress was obvious. I held my friend and told her I was there; being supportive was all I had to offer.
Fifteen minutes later, she began to feel better and told me what had happened: she’d had a panic attack. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, a panic attack is a feeling of extreme anxiety and the fear of disaster or losing control, often occurring as a variety of intense physical symptoms.
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