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No Time to Panic

How I Curbed My Anxiety and Conquered a Lifetime of Panic Attacks

by Matt Gutman
Matt Gutman
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By ABC News’s chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds
"Brave, reassuring, and practical...A balm for anyone who has ever suffered panic attacks and who longs to be released from their grip." —Dr. Nicole LePera, #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work
“Seamlessly weaves page-turning personal experiences with scientific discoveries…A tour de force." —Ethan Kross, bestselling author of Chatter
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.

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    September 12, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593748978
      • File size: 221510 KB
      • Duration: 07:41:28

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 10, 2023
      ABC News correspondent Gutman (The Boys in the Cave) delves into his “twenty-plus-year battle with panic disorder” in this enlightening outing. During his career at ABC, Gutman developed a “public persona of jovial fearlessness” whether reporting from Venezuela on the country’s crumbling healthcare system in 2016, or crossing into Ukraine the day after the Russian invasion in 2022, despite “a rising crescendo of panic attacks” triggered by live broadcasting. After one such episode caused him to make a “fundamental journalistic error” while delivering a live report on the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, Bryant’s daughter Gianna, and seven others, Gutman decided to seek out solutions for panic disorder. Over a period of about four years, he “turned the handle of almost every door” to treat the issue, including trying a smorgasbord of pills, breathwork that granted him relief for weeks, a guided “mushroom experience” that improved his mood, drinking ayahuasca, and undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy. In the end, Gutman found “everything worked, some things more than others,” and realized firsthand the value of disclosing the condition to gain “psychological relief” and release shame. While his list of tips for fellow sufferers is relatively generic (“don’t let it fester,” “meditate,” and “breathe”), Gutman’s up-close dispatches from his “circuitous road toward healing” are self-aware, sharp, and vulnerable. Anxiety sufferers should take note.

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