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What is a Panic Attack?

  In this informative Ted Talk titled “What Causes Panic Attacks, and How Can You Prevent Them?”, Dr. Cindy J. Aaronson educates us on panic attacks, taking us through the physiological, psychological and environmental triggers of them. She mentions how these environmental triggers can specifically be related to reminders of past traumatic life-events. She also provides […]

Sensory Overload

In 2013, filmmaker Mark Jonathan Harris and film scholar Marsha Kinder, along with dozens of collaborators, unveiled the Interacting with Autism website. The website is an interactive portal to autism or autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that conveys information mainly through video. One of the videos on the website depicts the sensory processing problems that often […]