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    Ben is feeling anxious and is having panic attacks. He tells Clara that he has been worrying about small things like getting lost on his way home or going to the wrong class. Clara recognizes these symptoms from her own experiences with anxiety and panic attacks. She advises Ben to see a therapist but also shares some strategies that helped her, such as exposing himself to anxiety triggers in a controlled way when feeling safe to build tolerance, and having coping mechanisms ready for when panic attacks do occur like exercise or distraction techniques. Ben is grateful to Clara for sharing her advice and perspective.

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    Ben is feeling anxious and is having panic attacks. He tells Clara that he has been worrying about small things like getting lost on his way home or going to the wrong class. Clara recognizes these symptoms from her own experiences with anxiety and panic attacks. She advises Ben to see a therapist but also shares some strategies that helped her, such as exposing himself to anxiety triggers in a controlled way when feeling safe to build tolerance, and having coping mechanisms ready for when panic attacks do occur like exercise or distraction techniques. Ben is grateful to Clara for sharing her advice and perspective.

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    Getting Advice-Điền Từ

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    Ben is feeling anxious and is having panic attacks. He tells Clara that he has been worrying about small things like getting lost on his way home or going to the wrong class. Clara recognizes these symptoms from her own experiences with anxiety and panic attacks. She advises Ben to see a therapist but also shares some strategies that helped her, such as exposing himself to anxiety triggers in a controlled way when feeling safe to build tolerance, and having coping mechanisms ready for when panic attacks do occur like exercise or distraction techniques. Ben is grateful to Clara for sharing her advice and perspective.

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    GETTING ADVICE

    Write no more than three words for each answer

    Clara: Hi, how are you? I haven’t seen you in (1)_______________ for a (2)___________.

    Ben: Good, thanks. You?

    Clara: Great, as long as I don’t think (3)___________ hard about all the (4)___________ I
    have to write this (5)___________!
    Ben: Yeah …
    Clara: Hey, are you OK?

    Ben: I have to (6)___________, I’m (7)___________ a bit. Maybe even a lot. I’ve
    (8)___________ been (9)___________ well at all and then I can’t (10)___________. And all
    these things are just (11)___________________and around in my (12)___________.

    Clara: Mmm … that doesn’t (13)___________________. So, you’re sleeping


    (14)___________ and you can’t concentrate. Is that (15)___________ it is, do you think?

    Ben: Well, (16)___________ I’m (17)___________, it’s more than that. I’m starting to
    (18)___________ going (19)___________. I find (20)___________ worrying about
    (21)___________things like what if I (22)___________ the way home. Or, what if I go to
    (23)___________ thinking it’s (24)___________ but actually it’s (25)___________ and I’m
    in the wrong (26)___________ at the wrong (27)___________. It sounds even more stupid
    when I say it (28)___________. It took me (29)_______________to (30)___________ the
    (31)___________ today.

    Clara: It doesn’t sound stupid at all. It actually sounds a lot like me (32)___________.

    Ben: Really? But you’re so (33)___________!

    Clara: I’ve (34)___________ to be, but even I still have (35)___________. I used to have
    (36)_______________and everything. When you were trying to leave the house today, how
    did you (37)___________?

    Ben: Like I couldn’t (38)___________. And my (39)___________ was going


    (40)__________________.

    Clara: Hmm … that sounds like a panic attack to me.

    Ben: I thought I was (41)___________.

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    Clara: You’d be (42)___________ how (43)___________ they are.
    (44)_________________have them, they just don’t talk about it.

    Ben: How did you (45)___________them?

    Clara: I actually talked to a (46)___________ about it, and you should too. But I learned
    some (47)___________as well. Though they’re (48)___________than (49)___________, and
    they’re going to sound (50)___________, so (51)___________, OK?

    Ben: OK …

    Clara: So, one thing I did (52)___________ to try to (53)___________ the (54)___________
    of the (55)___________ and the panic attacks when they (56)___________. So – and this
    may (57)___________– at a time when you’re feeling safe and OK, you (58)___________
    do things that make your (59)___________ start (60)___________and your breathing
    (61)___________.
    Like spinning around on a chair until you’re dizzy or (62)___________ so you’re
    (63)___________.

    Ben: That sounds awful!

    Clara: It is, but it means you get used to the (64)___________, so they feel less
    (65)___________.

    Ben: Right.

    Clara: Then you have to (66)___________ do the things that usually make you
    (67)___________. So, if it’s going to class on Monday and being (68)___________ you’ve
    got the wrong day, on Monday you go to class. If you let the anxiety (69)___________ you
    by making you (70)___________, it just makes it (71)___________ the next time you really
    do have to (72)___________.

    Ben: And what did you do if (73)_______________came anyway?

    Clara: I had a (74)___________. So, I (75)___________ everywhere instead of


    (76)_____________because the exercise helped, but also I did things like
    (77)___________or (78)___________or something. Whatever it was (79)___________, as
    long as I had something else to (80)___________.

    Ben: I can’t tell you how much I (81)___________ this. I thought…

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