Posts Tagged ‘psychotherapy’
Rejection, Failure, and Self Reflection
Posted by: annieem on: June 25, 2009
My first panic attack happened during the summer before my second year (not my first, interestingly) of graduate school and adjunct teaching. I was walking along 5th Avenue in NY and suddenly stopped breathing: there’s no other way of explaining it. I responded with the usual Prozac and Psychotherapy, stopping the latter soon after realizing [...]
Sunday Night Musings
Posted by: annieem on: December 14, 2008
When I first started graduate school, I immediately started having panic attacks. It was clearly not ideal timing, but something about taking classes and teaching (since my en route Ph.D. program “allowed” us to teach our own composition classes at the same time we were taking classes) gave me both the space and the elevated [...]
