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Article: Treatments help subside regular panic attacks
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- August 4, 2008
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CHICAGO -- When he had a near-accident on a highway about 10
years ago, Larry Anthony's whole body reacted: He broke into a cold
sweat, his heart was racing, he was shaking.
He wrote it off as a natural reaction to the scare until a week
later when he was driving again and, out of the blue, the alarming
symptoms reappeared. "My heart suddenly started racing and my chest
ached," says Anthony, 54, a Winnetka, Ill., computer consultant. "I
was sweating and shaking. I couldn't catch my breath, and I thought
I was going to die."
Within minutes, his symptoms subsided, but his worrisome thinking
was just beginning. "When I got home, I forced myself to drive
again, but in less than a mile I felt ...