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A Priest’s Thoughts on Depression, Anxiety, the Soul, Your Body and Your Brain

By Fr. Stephen Freeman, June 26, 2017  I was 19 years old the first time I had a panic attack. I was trying to go to sleep in my dorm room, when suddenly my heart began racing, my mind speeding forward, with what seemed like crazy, desperate thoughts. That was in the early 70’s and the phrase “panic attack” had not been invented. What I did not know was that this was the beginning of