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Page 4 • Thursday, September 16, 1999
GGIELIFE
Pain showcases battles with panic disod
BASSINGER
NEW YORK (AP) — Mysteri
ous, overpowering blitzes of fear:
In Kim Basinger’s life, there have
been so many.
But one stands out. The setting:
her fourth-grade classroom at Alps
Road Elementary
in Athens, Ga.
“It’s very quiet
and kids are rais
ing their hands.
But the teacher
called on me,”
she said.
“I stood up
and I was shak
ing, and my
mouth wouldn’t move, and every
body stared at me, and 1 thought I
was going to faint.
“I ran out of the classroom. It
was horrible.”
Unbeknownst to her or anyone
else, Basinger was gripped by
something called panic disorder.
She still is.
And however extraordinary her
accomplishments as a star and
Academy Award-winning actress,
in one respect she remains all too
common: She shares this affliction
with as many as 28 million other
Americans.
Basinger provides a compelling
case history in a new HBO docu
mentary, simply titled Panic.
Produced and directed by
Eames Yates, whose credits in
clude HBO’s acclaimed Dead
Blue: Surviving Depression of two
years ago, Panic airs Friday at 8
p.m. EOT.
Besides Basinger, the film visits
an unemployable model in Los
Angeles who is plagued by inter
mittent dizziness, shortness of
breath, crying and terror.
It travels with a successful
mortgage banker from Syracuse,
N.Y, as he attempts to escape his
geographic comfort zone for the
four-hour drive to see his ailing
grandmother in New Jersey.
Another subject: Earl Camp
bell, the Heisman Trophy-winning
running back at the University of
Texas who later played with the
Houston Oilers, then fell victim to
panic disorder after his football ca
reer ended.
Thinking back to when he hid
in a room with the shades drawn
and even contemplated suicide, he
said, “It wasn’t any more of that
tough stuff.”
The film hears from experts
who offer psychological and phys
iological theories and try to ex
plain to nonsufferers what the af
fliction is like.
Dr. David Barlow, director of
Boston University’s Center for
Anxiety & Research Disorders,
asks people to imagine them
selves subject to lightning striking
us two or three times a day, with
out warning.
“What would happen, of
course, is that you could think of
nothing else except: When is the
next time that I’m going to be hit
by this lightning?” he said.
Basinger agreed. “There’s a fear
of fear, fear that fear will come.”
Panic disorder can result in
feelings of isolation, inadequacy,
paralysis.
“I remember how lonely I felt,
and how in need of help I was,”
Basinger said.
/ don't know if I
was more elated
over winning or
more in pain over
knowing that I had
to come back.
— Kim Basinger
actress
The breaking point, she re
counts in the film, came when as
a rising young actress she had a
full-blown panic attack in a
health-food store.
She managed to get herself out
to her car and drive home. She did
not leave again for six months.
Then aid came from Dr. Ronald
Doctor, a clinical psychologist also
seen in the film.
“Dr. Doctor — he gave me a
new start in this life,” Basinger
said. “I even had to learn how to
drive again. It was quite a process.
I’ll tell you that.”
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drugs or a behavior-modification
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