A client wrote:
“I’m terrified something awful is happening to me. Almost
every day I become really scared. I shiver, my chest hurts, my
throat goes dry, I feel dizzy, faint and frightened for fifteen or
twenty minutes of hell. When this happens I feel sure I’m going
insane, or I’m going to die. My doctor says there’s nothing
wrong, that I’m “just” having a panic attack.
She wouldn’t be so complacent if this happened to her! How
can this be ‘just in my head’?”

The pharmaceutical companies would like you to believe that panic attacks arise from something biological … and therefore can be fixed with a pill.  Read the rest of this entry »