My first encounter with a panic attack came at the age of twenty-nine. From what I’ve learned, by talking to other panic attack sufferers, this was later than usual. Most people that I’ve talked to had their first panic attack either in their teens or early twenties.
Mine occurred whilst I was driving to see my parents, one Friday night in June 1985. Thinking back, aside from the usual panic attack symptoms, I think the most terrifying part was that I didn’t have a clue as to what was happening to me. I’d never, up to that point, experienced anything so intense and frightening.











