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No time to panic : how I curbed my anxiety and conquered a lifetime of panic attacks / Matt Gutman.

by Gutman, Matt, 1977- author.

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New York : Doubleday, [2023]

Gutman, Matt, 1977- -- Mental health.

Panic disorders -- Patients -- California -- Biography.

Panic disorders -- Popular works.

Panic attacks -- Popular works.

9780385549059 (hardcover) :

0385549059 (hardcover)

240 pages ; 22 cm.

Textbook panic -- Keeping the secret -- The good panic -- A thousand false alarms -- Disclosure -- When the doctor sees you -- Lobster claws and mushrooms -- The dose makes the poison -- "I want you to die tonight" -- The gold standard -- The balanced breakfast of human experience.

"Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment when his life was upended. Reporting live on a huge story in January 2020, he found himself in the throes of an on-air panic attack--and not for the first time. The truth is that Gutman had been enduring panic attacks in secret for twenty years: soul-bruising episodes that left his vision constricted, his body damp, his nerves shot. Despite the challenges, he had carved out a formidable career, reporting from war zones and natural disasters before millions of viewers on Good Morning America, World News Tonight, and 20/20. His nerves typically "punched through" to TV audiences, making his appearances kinetic and often unforgettable. But his January 2020 broadcast was unusual for all the wrong reasons. Mid-panic, Gutman misstated the facts of a story, a blunder that led to a monthlong suspension, not to mention public shame and personal regret. It was a reckoning. Gutman's panic attacks had become too much for him to bear in secret. He needed help. So begins a personal journey into the science and treatment of panic attacks. Gutman would talk to the world's foremost scholars on panic and anxiety, who showed him that his mind wasn't broken; it's our perception of panic that needs recalibration. He would consult therapists and shamans, trying everything from group treatment and cognitive behavioral therapy to ayahuasca and psilocybin. And he would take a hard look at the trauma reverberating inside him--from his childhood, but also from his years as a conflict reporter. Unsparing, perceptive, and often funny, this is the story of a panic sufferer who took on the monster within. Filled with wisdom and actionable insights, it's at once an inspirational journey and a road map--if not toward a singular cure, then to something even more worthy: peace of mind"--Publisher's description.

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