Here is a picture of “the geography of a panic attack,” by Uneasy Toast. Seeing many clients who suffer with anxiety, I hear about panic attacks…and everyone’s experience is different! It can be so scary the first time this happens, so to know others experience panic attacks can be a comfort in itself. To learn more about anxiety, go to: anxietybc.com 
Author: Melissa D Michel, MSCP, NCC, LPC
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Panic Attacks and Anxiety
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Maria Popova’s Article on Anxiety
Maria Popova writes about a pastor, James Gordon Gilkey, who studies a man’s Worry Wheel, and determines the following:
On studying his chronic fears this man found they fell into five fairly distinct classifications:
- Worries about disasters which, as later events proved, never happened. About 40% of my anxieties.
- Worries about decisions I had made in the past, decisions about which I could now of course do nothing. About 30% of my anxieties.
- Worries about possible sickness and a possible nervous breakdown, neither of which materialized. About 12% of my worries.
- Worries about my children and my friends, worries arising from the fact I forgot these people have an ordinary amount of common sense. About 10% of my worries.
- Worries that have a real foundation. Possibly 8% of the total.
Gilkey writes, “What, of this man, is the first step in the conquest of anxiety? It is to limit his worrying to the few perils in his fifth group. This simple act will eliminate 92% of his fears. Or, to figure the matter differently, it will leave him free from worry 92% of the time.
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Helpful Mental Health Podcasts
One podcast I find helpful and funny is the podcast “The Mental Illness Happy Hour” by Paul Gilmartin. He has hundreds of interviews with comedians, actors, famous and everyday listeners of his podcast where he explores the most difficult subjects of mental illness in a personal way.
Another newer podcast I found interesting and insightful is The Hilarious World of Depression, produced by American Public Media.
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