Panic Disorder

...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b TO THE EDITOR: Anxiety disorders are common and disabling.

Many medical conditions and substances, including prescribed medications, precipitate anxiety symptoms,1 but there are no reported cases of a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet initiating or exacerbating anxiety symptoms.

This report describes a woman with well-controlled ba href=/panic disorder/a/b who developed a return of her panic symptoms, despite previously adequate treatment, after starting a high-protein, very low carbohydrate diet (the Atkins diet).

Case Report Ms.

A presented at the age of 37 with a 2-week history of daily episodes of increasing panic attacks consisting of lightheadedness, feeling "sick to her stomach," chest tightness, dizziness, and an overwhelming sense of fear without depression.

These attacks had sudden onset and lasted for 30 to 45 minutes.

An imminent vacation plan was a possible precipitant.

Past psychiatric history revealed that she had experienced similar attacks 4 years previously.

She received an extensive medical work-up, including an echocardiogram, ECG, upper endoscopy, and blood work, with normal results.

She had had 6 months of daily attacks, during which she severely restricted her trips outside her home.

She was successfully treated with twice-weekly counseling for 3 months and alprazolam for 1 year.

Ms.

A had been off alprazolam for 2 years before the reemergence of symptoms.

She had no history of psychiatric hospitalization or symptoms of psychosis, mania, posttraum...

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...ba href=/panic disorder/a/b seems harder and harder and harder/still you try to control/Your brain is faulty wiring, the reason for tiring/keep treating the curse, imagine the worse/systematic sympathetic quite pathetic/apologetic paramedic your heart is prosthetic/give me recipes for happy with the chemical gone/drinking freedom from the bottle with the sound of alarm.” —“Drilled a Wire Through My Cheek” And “Hate Me,” for instance, begins with a recorded voice mail message from his mom, inquiring as to his mental state—and medication status.

Did she mind being immortalized like that?

“That had to be done,” he says.

“I was at a point when I was recording that it was the worst of my worst.

She hadn’t heard from me in quite a while and I got that message and I realized what I was doing to my family.

I realized the selfishness in addiction; I hadn’t talked to my mom in months.

She was calling and that’s the exact message, and that’s when it clicked in my mind: It’s not just me anymore.

These people love you; they raised you.” In terms of songwriting and creation, Blue October’s songs begin as seeds in Furstenfeld’s mind, lines and words which spring forth unannounced and uninvited.

He brings his ideas to the four remaining members, who each add their own talents to the mix.

“I’ll come with the blank canvas, do the sketch,” explains Furstenfeld, saying, &l...