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 ...

When we are in the grips of an anxious pattern, it dominates our brain and nervous system, and we lose our normal body-mind ...

Panic attacks can feel terrifying and sudden, often mimicking a heart attack. A psychiatrist explains what's happening in the ...

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 ...

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 ...