How to cope with anxiety attacks

The best way to deal with crippling anxiety attacks is to challenge the cause of the catastrophic thoughts, writes Áilín Quinlan.

IT’S hard to believe that it can disrupt the lives of high-fliers like PJ Gallagher or Ardal O’Hanlon, two of Ireland’s hottest comedians, let alone bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.

Yet this week, all three revealed the crippling anxiety which has dogged them for years — in Gallagher’s case, stage fright has affected him to such an extent that he physically dreads performing live.