The plastic kept some of the chill out, but on this night, I swear I could see my breath. Every December, I’d glue huge sheets of plastic to the window frames, which would sort of inflate and deflate whenever a gust of wind blew against the building. My bedroom, which faced the street with three enormous windows that were almost not insulated at all, was like ice. I raised my fingers to my lips and blew warm air down on them. I forced my hand to open up, releasing the door handle from my vice grip. Get unlimited access to Esquire and a magazine subscription. This time, someone, or from what I could hear, a whole group of burglars, were after me. Every other robbery had happened when I wasn’t home. Not at all-this was that dreaded scenario I’d been turning over in my mind on sleepless nights for years now. And so on.īack in my bedroom, the panic I was feeling wasn’t unprompted. The fear of having an anxiety episode would sometimes cause me to have one. I saw Luke Skywalker again for the first time at a midnight screening of The Force Awakens, and the feeling of excitement launched me out of my own body.
Even cold weather has sent my head spiraling. The taste–that strong, dry odor they put on your lips–it would get my heart racing. Months before that night, in the fall, I had an episode after eating ceviché on a date. About a month prior to that, I lost the capacity to speak when I knocked into a guy at a party by accident in the line for the bathroom, and he flew into a rage.Įven with a lot of therapy, it’s tough to keep track of all the triggers that can cause a panic attack. Once, weeks before this night, my vision narrowed to a tiny keyhole when a client criticized my work as we sat in front of my laptop in an empty coffee shop. They came unprompted, at inexplicable times. In fact, I’d begun to encounter attacks like this a lot by then. That’s not to say this feeling was completely new, though. And though it felt as though my body was operating at maximum capacity, with every one of my senses on red alert, my knees were shaking, and I felt as though I might topple over. It was the sort of episode that makes you feel like you are falling to the Earth. And as waves of adrenaline coursed through my system, my hand filled up with such strength that I swear I could have torn that knob right off and hurled it through the double doors like a major league pitcher. I had night-vision in the pitch-black room, I could see everything. “What-what th-the fuck is going on?” I yelled. Wincing in pain, I snared one of the doorknobs and pressed the weight of my whole body against the cheap fiberwood paneling. I flung myself towards the doors, pushing my upper half forward so forcefully that I felt as though my right shoulder popped out of its socket. And from the sound of it, I was seconds away from three or four burglars blowing those doors down.įight or flight kicked in the moment my eyes opened. With enough of a push, the flimsy lock that held the doors together would unlatch right away. I’d sometimes drag my heavy metal weight bench along the floorboards in front of them. The doors were locked, of course–they always were.
I woke to the sound of thrashing outside my bedroom. Years later, in our shared apartment far away from college, it seemed that either our bad luck had returned, or worse–whoever’d been breaking into our homes had finally come back to finish the job. This was the sixth home he and I had shared–there were three dorms in college, then two houses off-campus and in the four years that we lived together, we were burglarized four times.
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