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Women & anxiety disorders.

Vicky Marchand * was in her 20s when she had her first panic attack. Always a very religious person, she was in church when a woman wearing a deeply cut V-neck top approached her. "I noticed her cleavage, and that's when the panic attack hit, "said Ms. Marchand, who is now 47. "It felt like the worst kind of fight-or-flight feeling," she recalls. "As if a car were going to hit you and you feel like you have to escape."

Associating the attack with V-necks, Ms. Marchand spent the next two years afraid to look at people from the neck down. But her fears grew. She became so convinced that she had sinned in some way by looking at the woman's cleavage that she also tried to ...

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