Sensitive by nature, and prone to both anxiety and insomnia, she awakened one night with a racing heart and difficulty breathing. She rushed to the emergency room, where she had an electrocardiogram and an echocardiograph. Though the tests turned up nothing, she worries about another episode and has had difficulty sleeping ever since. Those worries have only increased since she was diagnosed with panic disorder.
生性敏感，容易焦慮、失眠的蕭太太，在一次半夜突感心跳加速、呼吸困難送急診，做遍了心電圖、心臟超音波等檢查，仍查不出原因後，一直擔心會再度發作，夜夜難以安眠，最後竟被診斷為「恐慌症」，讓她更加恐慌不安。