Kerry Washington speaks candidly about suffering from panic attacks at age just 7 in her upcoming memoir Thicker Than Water.
In an excerpt shared by Oprah Daily on Wednesday, the “Scandal” star recalled how she “developed panic attacks at night” after hearing her parents constantly argue.
Washington wrote of the attacks, “They manifested first as a rhythm of anxiety that encircled my brain, then evolved into a rapid pulsing, a whirling frenzy of metallic thumps, like those nauseating old spinning rides at a county fair. “This was not just a feeling.
It was a sound, an internal beat, or series of beats, though they didn’t equate to music. It was the sound of terror, wholly unnatural and unconnected to the rhythms of my heart. “I was dizzied with terror, no ground beneath me; it was crazy-making, endless.
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