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She broke down the walls inside her<br />
BY GAYLA CAWLEY<br />
SPRING <strong>2021</strong> | 37<br />
Wendy Tamis Robbins was only 6 years<br />
old when she had her first panic attack.<br />
"And they really didn't stop after that,"<br />
the Marblehead author recalls.<br />
For nearly 40 years, Robbins suffered<br />
from what she calls "treatment resistant<br />
anxiety." After that first attack, she<br />
continued to deal with a series of anxious<br />
symptoms, which included further episodes<br />
of panic and a number of serious phobias.<br />
Those symptoms could be debilitating,<br />
she says. For example, as a child, she had<br />
an intense fear of the rain, which made<br />
everyday life difficult.<br />
"By the time I was in my late 30s, I<br />
really reached this point in my life where<br />
I asked myself the question: could I ever<br />
live a life not limited by this debilitating<br />
disorder?" said Robbins.<br />
"I had been at rock bottom, and as the<br />
title of the book alludes to, I had built these<br />
walls so thick and tall to protect myself<br />
against what were at first real fears, but<br />
Marblehead author Wendy Tamis Robbin's book, "The Box: An Invitation to Freedom from Anxiety" is<br />
scheduled to be released on May 4.
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