Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime, where we usually get very big mad over true crime,

but it's bonus episode Thursday random episode day, which means that it's time for a Q&A from all my beautiful listeners.

You guys are the best and it's time to chill out and talk about some less serious things.

Hopefully, I haven't read the questions yet that you guys submitted.

So maybe it'll be tough ones, maybe it'll be fun ones. We'll learn together.

This one is from Jess. And it says, you're in the middle of a full-blown anxiety attack.

What helps? Me. Situation depending. Maybe closing my eyes on that coaster or riding as a

passenger. Maybe calling a friend,

not food, that's for sure. How about you, Heather? You know, nobody's asked me about my panic

attacks. I went through a few years where anytime I would go to like a grocery store, I would have a

full-blown panic attack. I have like treated my anxiety and my ADHD really well the last couple of years and so I do not have panic attacks as often.

But when I do have them, I'm really glad that I have a supportive husband who can like tell when it is setting in.

And one thing I've learned that helps me is to hold this sounds insane and obviously talk to your doctor before doing this because it's probably, you know, not that great for you. I hold like a fabric

to my face and breathe through it. I just covered my mouth so it sounded weird on the mic. One time

we were at CrimeCon and I was eating dinner or something and I started having a panic attack.

Crowds is usually where it gets like tough for me. And so

Kyle wound up giving me his napkin was like, try breathing through this. And I just kind of did that.

And it somehow just I guess regulated my breathing a little bit and was able to help me calm down

the rest of my body. For me, panic attacks are very much physical. Like, I shake,

like my hands feel like they go tingling. My face will go tingly. I can't catch my breath.

Definitely feel like I'm going to puke. So obviously, like you, Jess, food is not the answer for me.

And yeah, that's one thing that's really helped. And obviously, I have medicine for if it gets out of

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