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The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self ... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend ... Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness.  This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being.  It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant.

” - Sam Harris

Panic disorder

 

a discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms develop abruptly & reach a peak within 10 min:

1.) palpitations, pounding heart, or accelerated heart rate.
2.) sweating.
3.) trembling or shaking.
4.) sensations of shortness of breath or smothering.
5.) feeling of choking.
6.) chest pain or discomfort.
7.) nausea or abdominal distress.
8.) feeling dizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, or faint.
9.) derealization (feelings of unreality) or depers-onalization (being detached from oneself).
10.) fear of losing control or going crazy.
11.) fear of dying.
12.) paraesthesias (numbness or tingling).
13.) chills or hot flushes.

panic attacks are subdivided into unexpected (uncued), situationally bound (cued) and situationally predisposed. "limited-symptom attacks" are episodes meeting fewer than four criteria but otherwise identical to panic attacks.

 

Wilson, Reid.
Anxieties.com. This is a fine site giving high quality information about cognitive-behavioural therapy, self-help, and medication treatments for a variety of anxiety disorders.
24 Mar 2004.
url : http://www.anxieties.com/.

NIMH Panic Disorder. US National Institute of Mental Health information on panic disorder.
01 Jan 2000.
url : http://www.nimh.nih.gov/anxiety/panicmenu.cfm