16-07-2025
I thought I was a drama queen because of how much I was affected by things that happened to other people... but then I discovered I had this little-known condition - and it's far more common than you'd think
Standing at a supermarket checkout, Juliet Owen-Nuttall felt a rising panic. Her heart was racing; she felt nauseous and weak to the point of needing to lean against the conveyor belt.
But none of these symptoms occurred as a result of something that was happening to her. Instead, she found herself on the verge of a full-blown panic attack because the payment card belonging to the woman at the till, a stranger, had been declined.
