For years I thought anxiety meant panic attacks and being unable to function. I thought it looked like someone frozen in a supermarket aisle, or cancelling everything and staying in bed. It took me a long time — and a…
The first time I had a panic attack in public, I was standing in the cereal aisle at a grocery store. My heart slammed against my ribs, my vision narrowed to a tunnel, and I genuinely believed I was dying….
I was nineteen the first time a panic attack dropped me to my knees in a grocery store parking lot. I sat on the asphalt, convinced something was catastrophically wrong with my heart, while a stranger asked if I needed…