PSYCH257 Lecture : Anxiety+case+descriptions.doc
9 Dec 2013
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Janet is a single, 42-year old partner of a major law firm on bay street in toronto. She reports having a constant feeling of overwhelming dread, which began five years earlier when she experienced an out of the blue panic attack on the open water during a cruise while on vacation in the mediterranean. Convinced she was having a heart attack, janet insisted on being airlifted to safety. Since then, she has experienced numerous similar attacks and has visited the. Emergency room several times, but has always been sent home without a medical diagnosis. She doesn"t trust the doctors and is convinced that the next attack will kill her. She has taken a leave of absence from work. She spends a lot of time in her house, leaving only to walk her dog around the block and to sit on her front porch and contemplate what has happened to her life.
