The fear of vomiting, which for me is one of the most original and most acute of my fears, is actually fairly common. Emetophobia, it's called, and by some estimates, it's the fifth most common specific phobia.

Scott Stossel

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I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.

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To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

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Many nights, I would begin the evening fueled by caffeine and nicotine, which I needed to propel me out of torpor and hopelessness - only to overshoot into quaking, quivering anxiety.

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An astonishing portion of my life is built around trying to evade vomiting and preparing for the eventuality that I might.

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As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder off... by Scott Stossel

As recently as 1979, neither panic attacks nor panic disorder officially existed.

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I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.

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Even as economic and political freedoms have advanced enormously and generated huge benefits for humanity, they've also created a great deal of anxiety because every time you have to make a choice, there's anxiety about making the wrong one.

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One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.

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