Tag: panic attack

  • Legend Has It: What Is to Be Believed? — a Foray into a Panic Attack

    Legend has it that the Buddha spent a night in a grotto high in the Himalayas. Assuming his position for meditation, the Buddha fell into an unearthly trance. A bat flew out of the grotto. A pebble skittered toward the edge of the cave and fell to the fathoms below.…

  • Swimming in the System

    About nine years ago I experienced a panic attack for the first time in my life. It is an odd feeling, as if the world is enclosing and wrapping you in a straight jacket but not in a claustrophobic sense. It is as everything you see or feel creates an unsettling pressure,…