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The conference room's glass walls felt like they were closing in as my CEO pointed to the quarterly projections. My palms left sweaty streaks on the polished mahogany table while colleagues' voices distorted into underwater murmurs. That familiar metallic taste flooded my mouth - the fifth anxiety attack that month. I excused myself, locked myself in a bathroom stall, and fumbled for my phone with trembling hands. Three taps later, I was typing through tears: "Can't breathe. Meeting disaster." W

Rain lashed against my office window like shrapnel as the Slack notifications exploded across my screen. Another production outage. Another midnight war room. My fingers trembled against the keyboard when I noticed the familiar spiral - that tightening in my chest like piano wire around my ribs. The fifth panic attack this month. My therapist's words echoed: "You need anchors." That's when I remembered the blue icon buried beneath productivity apps promising to save time I no longer possessed.

Rain lashed against the 14th-floor window of my Chicago hotel, the neon glow of Division Street casting eerie shadows on the ceiling. I'd just ended a catastrophic investor call - our startup's funding evaporated because I'd mixed up quarterly projections. My hands shook violently as I fumbled for my phone, that familiar metallic taste of panic flooding my mouth. Three thousand miles from home, completely alone, I realized my breathing had turned into ragged gasps. That's when my thumb instincti

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