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I had never witnessed anyone else having a panic attack, had only felt it from the inside. Attending to Allie’s panic was like finally being able to attend to myself in all the times panic had rendered me unreachable to my soothing or anyone else’s. I saw that Allie in no external danger, that the danger was coming from within. Safety lay just on the other side of a few minutes of deep breathing, but also I knew that to tell a person with a panic disorder to breathe deep and stop panicking is like asking a diabetic to calm down and produce more insulin, or a blind person to just focus and see. Panic disorder is deeply neurological, neurochemical, and biological, it can be helped by psychological work, but in the throes of an attack, such suggestions are insulting. I knew Allie couldn’t do anything but let it roll through her. *Gila Lyons on The Manifest-Station today! Thanks as always to Bryant McGill for the artwork.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:23:50 +0000

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