![]() ![]() The blood flows to your major muscles, and your heart rate increases and breathing quickens to prepare you to flee or fight.” “Your sympathetic nervous system triggers the release of adrenaline and cortisol. “Your brain sends signals to prepare you for what it is incorrectly coding it as an emergency,” she continued. Katy Stebbins Yahr, MA, LPC, with Still Point Counseling in Mount Pleasant, explained: “Panic attacks occur when your brain is having an overreaction to the body’s natural physiological response to fear or danger.”Ĭauses can include stimuli in your environment or something as simple as drinking too much caffeine, trigging your body to respond with an increase in physiological activity. A body overreacts to a stressor, creating a fight-or-flight reaction that doesn’t apply to the day-to-day modern world. That’s exactly what a panic attack is, in fact. ![]() In short, we’re all stressed all the time, and it’s difficult to find an escape route. This is what our population is exposed to every day.” ![]() “News, for example, is now global – school shootings, COVID-19 and economic collapse potential. “I think the world being as connected as it is with social media and a global internet, direct consumers of information by technological needs are exposed to a significant amount of information than that of other generations,” he added. “Mental health symptoms which include panic disorders and generalized anxiety disorders, have increased approximately 30% to 40% in the last several years in this population alone.” “Panic disorders are extremely prevalent nowadays, especially in the population of 18 to 25 years old,” said Steven Krozer, CEO and nurse practitioner at iTrust Wellness Group in Greenville. Panic attacks, or panic disorders, are common these days and are becoming ever more so. ![]() You just know, ‘I have to get out of this place or I am going to die.’” “You might vomit, your heart races and you don’t know if you’re going to explode or not. “All of your body systems shift into overdrive,” she said. I was sobbing, choking and I didn’t know what was happening.Ĭorrigan Rutherford, a Charleston-based educator and school administrator, understands those feelings all too well. I felt like there was a semi-truck parked on my chest. I awoke in the middle of the night gasping for air. I lived across the river from Manhattan in Northern New Jersey and lost a friend when the Towers fell. It was September of 2001, several weeks after the attack on the Twin Towers. Scanlon's command encapsulates the fear and panic felt by Lawrence’s power brokers and political leaders at the onset of the strike.I was 22 the first time I experienced a panic attack. The language in the second line of Mayor Scanlon’s call for the militia - “a tumult is threatened”-provides a sense of how it must have felt to be a city official, only a few days into his post, during the strike. A New York Times story noted, “A large number of students will escape the ordeal of a mid-year examination as a result. Even Harvard’s Cavalry Troop C arrived in the city in early February. Later, police and militia would come from Lowell, Haverhill, Lynn, Newton, Wakefield, Stoneham, Charlestown, Waltham, and Boston.Ī troop of Boston Metropolitan Police, and a number of sharpshooters from the US Marine Corps was in the city as well. Battery C was the first company to be called to Lawrence to help maintain order during the strike. A call for troops was sent on January 15th by Mayor Michael Scanlon to Captain Louis Cox of Battery C of the Massachusetts State Militia (now the National Guard). ![]()
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