Panic attacks are dramatically abrupt bursts of acute anxiety that feel life-threatening but are not. They build into a crescendo of fear within minutes, but what they lack in duration they make ...
She also wrote in her book Miranda’s Daily Doses of Such Fun: “Life during times of acute anxiety has been like wading through treacle and on bad days getting to the end of the street to post ...
That’s likely because acute anxiety triggers a brief surge in two stress hormones: cortisol and norepinephrine. Cortisol prompts the body to release glucose for energy and amp up immune function.
But he also asserts that the anxiety is not limited to any one generation. We all live and move and have our cultural being in a kind of acute anxiety. By anxiety, here, I don’t mean the ...