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By ABC News's chief national correspondent, an unflinching look at panic attacks by a reporter whose career was nearly derailed by them, offering readers a guide to making a truce with their warring minds. Matt Gutman can tell you the precise moment that his life was upended, even if he can't quite remember it. Reporting live in January 2020, Gutman found himself in the throes of an on-air panic attack - and not for the first time. The truth is that Gutman had been suffering panic attacks in secret for twenty years: gut-wrenching episodes that left his vision constricted, his body damp, his nerves shot. Despite the affliction, he had managed to carve out a formidable career for himself, reporting from war zones and natural disasters before millions of viewers on Good Morning America and World News Tonight.
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I tell stories for a living at ABC News, as the network's Chief National Correspondent. I've covered the news from about 50 countries around the globe. I've covered wars all over the Middle East, disasters all over the world, and more shootings here in the US than I'd like to remember. Which partly explains why the rescue of the Thai soccer team from a cave last summer so captivated me, (and much of the rest of the world.) I felt compelled to write "The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand." It's about a rescue that should have failed. About boys who should be dead... and about the intrigue, politics and guts that went into saving the lives of thirteen people in Thailand.
