You’ve just returned home from a typical workday, and you are tired. You are sitting on the sofa in the living room, watching television with a cup of soda in one hand and the remote in the other.
Suddenly you feel lightheaded and the room seems to close in on you. You discover that it’s becoming very difficult to breathe, and your heart starts to race. As you struggle to breathe, your body breaks out in a cold sweat and you start to shake as a feeling of overwhelming dread comes over you, and you become convinced that you are about to die. Within twenty seconds, you are convinced that you’re going crazy and a paralyzing terror overwhelms you. Your hands and feet start to experience an odd tingling sensation. You rock back and forth with your head in your hands – trying to force the terror to leave your mind, but it only gets worse…