Ignoring Anxiety is Not the Solution

I had a panic attack on film

Photo by Tim Goedhart on Unsplash

I could feel something going wrong halfway through a take. We’d been rehearsing for hours and nothing was going right. And now we were only on the second take and my body was no longer my own.

I’ve only had one panic attack before, exactly eleven years ago to the day. I didn’t know what it was at the time, I just thought I was…