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You can't keep it from happening.

When he was starting out in Hollywood, Judd Apatow began to have panic attacks.

The stress of rewriting the script, getting the film in on time, managing all the moving

pieces on a project.

He felt the enormity of the pressure, and like a lot of us, he took that to an irrational

extreme.

If this movie is bad, he would think it's all my fault.

He would look around at the actors on set and think to himself, I can take them all down

if I don't make this scene historically great.

And as he thought those kind of thoughts, his temperature would begin to rise, his heart

would start pounding, and his surroundings would begin to feel like they were closing in

on him.

As Apatow experienced more and more panic attacks, he learned the right way and the wrong

way to deal with them.

As he says in his book, Sikr in the Head, the secret was that you don't try to have a panic

attack, because that makes it worse.

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