When Jane Green was 14 years old, she was walking offstage from a tap dance competition when she collapsed.
She couldnāt feel her arms, her legs, or her feet. She was hysterically crying, and her whole body was hot. She was gasping for breath.
Green blacked out for 10 minutes. When she came to, her mom was holding her. It took 30 minutes for her heart rate to calm down enough so she could breathe.
Green was having a panic attack ā her first one, but not her last. Her parents took her to the doctor, who diagnosed her with anxiety and depression, and handed her a prescription for an antidepressant.
āIāve had good times, but Iāve also had really low points. Sometimes it got to the point where I didnāt want to live anymore,ā Green shares with Healthline.
More doctorsā visits also revealed she had an irregular thyroid, which didnāt help with her anxiety. She started seeing a therapist at 20, which helped ā but only so much.
At 23, after a particularly hard visit with her doctor, who told her there was nothing that could be done about her symptoms, Green had a meltdown in front of her friend Autumn Bates.
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