How to support a colleague having a panic attack

If you have coworkers who experience panic conditions or anxiety, here’s how to support them (and not make it worse).

Australian ABC News meteorologist Nate Byrne had just told viewers about the rainy days ahead when he started rubbing his hands together. “I’m actually going to need to stop for a second,” he says evenly into the camera, during a live broadcast last week. “Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that’s happening right now. Lisa,” he says to his ABC News Breakfast cohost, Lisa Millar, “maybe I can hand it back to you.”