For many fitness enthusiasts, the rush of a good workout brings joy and satisfaction. Yet for others, that elevated heart rate can trigger overwhelming fear instead of exhilaration. Exercise-induced ...

Is sour candy the secret to diffusing an anxiety or panic attack? Some TikTokers seem to think so. In a TikTok video viewed 2 million times, a woman says her therapist told her to eat a Warhead ...

Emily Laurence is a journalist, freelance writer and certified health coach living in Raleigh, North Carolina. She specializes in writing about mental health, healthy aging and overall wellness. For ...

My pen dragged diligently across my notebook in my undergraduate classes some years ago. "A panic attack usually lasts about fifteen minutes, the body can't sustain that activation for long." Still, ...

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If you have ever experienced a panic attack, you know how awful it feels. It would make sense if you did everything possible to prevent having another one. Unfortunately, the things that people do in ...

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, ...

Researchers have found set of neurons that mediate panic-like symptoms in mice, which showcase a novel brain pathway that could be a target for new panic disorder therapeutics. Overwhelming fear, ...

Panic attacks are extremely uncomfortable experiences that cause fleeting but intense feelings of fear and physical reactions to everyday, nonthreatening situations. They’re fairly common, with up to ...