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More on Aubrey Huff. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I was half joking when I said Aubrey Huff is my new favorite San Francisco Giant, but after reading this , man, I really mean it He tossed and turned, unabl ... Read on »
SF Giants baseball player on disabled list with anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I've talked in the past on PANIC! about pro athletes being sidelined by panic and anxiety. Here in San Francisco, it's happened again, to Giants infielder Aubrey ... Read on »
The neuroscience of panic. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety With links to everything from Altered auditory processing in patients with panic disorder  to Tonic arousal and activity: relationships to personality and person ... Read on »
"You can change how you think." by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I kind of like this guy. "You've got to get to the point where you just don't worry about it. You've just got to accept that it's happening. What's the worst that could ... Read on »
Have you heard the one about the agoraphobic who collected restaurant menus? by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Sounds like the set-up line for a joke, right? It's not. According to this Atlantic blog post , the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History rece ... Read on »
Did panic lead to JetBlue pilot's mid-air meltdown? by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety In a word, no. According to a CBS News story Initial reports indicated the pilot may have experienced a panic attack, but it was not, according to Dr. Jeffrey Lieberma ... Read on »
You've come a long way, baby. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I just came across a blog post by an MD in the Times Union of Albany: Medical Mystery Monday #80: the case of the chest pain . A 24 year old woman comes to the Em ... Read on »
Decent L.A. Times article about panic and anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety A recent article in the L.A. Times provides a pretty good overview of causes of and treatments for anxiety disorders. A sample Though the best course of treatment f ... Read on »
Live-tweeting a panic attack. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety This  is a piece by Summer Beretsky on PsychCentral, documenting a panic attack, as it happens, at a pharmacy. My experience is that any kind of interaction wit ... Read on »
"The Architecture of Fear." by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety If you’re anything like me, your panic- or anxiety-fraught periods produce a sense of place that’s particularly attuned to anything even potentially fearsome. F ... Read on »
On emotion, anxiety, panic, and fatherhood. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I grew up out of touch with my emotions. If you consider those with emotional self-knowledge, with an emotional fluency that permits them to discern a wide and nu ... Read on »
Adult anxiety: another reason not to hit your kids. (As if anyone should need one.) by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Like the Catholic Church scandal before it, the Penn State story has pedophilia on everyone's mind. The details of that story are horrific (as a father, I can say I'd ... Read on »
The best of PANIC!: Perfectionism and anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety "'Good enough' may be good enough for other people, but it's never good enough for me." "When I make a mistake, I feel like a failure." "I study hard because ... Read on »
How we're making our children more anxious and depressed. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety When I was a kid on Long Island, summertime would unleash a gaggle of us to roam the streets and sidewalks of our suburban neighborhood from morning 'til dark, with b ... Read on »
The best of PANIC!: Mental health and the workplace. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety For those of us not lucky enough to have been born into great wealth, not working because we have panic or anxiety (or their cousin, depression) isn't a great optio ... Read on »
Stress: portrait of a killer. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety Panic, of course, is an extreme reaction to stress. It may seem like it comes from out of the blue, but it doesn't. More often than not panic disorder develops in ... Read on »
A Buddhist approach to anxiety and panic. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety So I've been spending time lately listening to dharma talks (not familiar with Buddha-speak? think "sermon") and guided meditation recordings from Josh Korda of Dharm ... Read on »
Did that panic attack really come from out of the blue? Nope. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety They can seem like they come with no forewarning, for no reason, but there's a back story to every panic attack. It might involve caffeine or alcohol or other drugs, ... Read on »
The best of PANIC!: A Buddhist perspective on coping with anxiety. by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety I've decided it's time to occasionally republish the more popular PANIC! posts from the past so that newer visitors to this blog will get a chance to weigh in on them ... Read on »
Blue light: cure for anxiety? by Eric W. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Anxiety From an April 2011 release from the National Institute of Mental Health Scientists, for the first time, have switched anxiety on-and-off in active animals by shin ... Read on »