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Patient Scenario: Panic  Disorder

Pya Smith, a 38-year-old female, comes in the primary care  setting complaining of palpitations,  non-radiating chest pain,  and dizziness (Sung et al., 2018). The patient explains to the  primary care provider that she was grocery shopping and  suddenly started to sweat profusely, and her hands are both  shaking, not knowing what was causing it. She states that she  did not understand what was causing it and that she started to  feel dizzy and short of breath.  Her 18-year-old daughter, who  was with her, helped her sit down and gave her juice to drink,  but it did not help. While sitting down, she felt very weak, and  she felt like her whole body is shaking. She thinks that this  episode only lasted from 5 to 10 minutes, but it felt like it  forever, and she thought she would die.