Panic Attack? Don't Panic. | Dr. Katherine Shear | Big Think

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Panic Attack? Don't Panic. New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If a tiger ran in the room, says Dr. Katherine Shear, we’d all have one. Fortunately, like the tiger, panic attacks can be tamed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Katherine Shear: Dr. Katherine Shear is the Marion E. Kenworthy Professor of Psychiatry in Social Work at Columbia University. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Tufts University Medical School, her primary areas of investigation include anxiety disorders, depression, and (most recently) bereavement and grief. Her research has produced a number of widely used clinical assessment tools, including the Panic Disorder Severity Scale and the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Severity Scale. Dr. Shear's groundbreaking grief research was recently featured in the New York Times. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: What triggers a panic attack? Dr. Katherine Shear: So what triggers a panic attack is – I'm hesitating because there's sort of two main models of this. I mean, one is that – I guess both of them center on the idea that everyone, you know, is capable of having a panic attack. If a tiger suddenly ran into the room, you would probably have a panic attack. And so that mean

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