Panic attacks every other day. Couldn’t leave the house. - Project UNWD Ep 68

Project UNWD (Real People. Real Stories.) · Oct 29, 2026 · 27m

Abbye is a wife and a stay-at-home mom of three. This fall, she's going back to school to teach.

But her story didn't start where you'd expect.

It started five years ago, when her newborn son got RSV. He spent a month in the hospital.

After he came home, she got more and more anxious. She started drinking to quiet her head.

By March 2025, she couldn't walk. She couldn't pick up her kids.

Ninety days later, she came home sober. But the anxiety didn't go away.

Panic attacks came every other day, for months. She was scared to drive after dark.

She hid panic attacks from her kids. She kept asking…