TRAVELLING through New York on a train, Catherine Plano suddenly felt as though the carriage was caving in. She couldn’t breathe, her hands felt numb and she lost all sensation in her legs. The high-flying Melbourne executive and mother was convinced she was dying. Catherine feels ridiculous recounting her visceral fear now, but while she wasn’t having a heart attack, that moment changed things for her forever. “Everything was closing down, the sound was muffled,” she said everything was drawing in on me, I couldn’t get my breath in. You don’t get enough oxygen.” The panic attacks continued for another six months, to […]