I think Jilli's only recourse is a pharmaceutical one, because any other bribe or rationale just isn't up to the task of breaking the cycle of panic she can descend into.Pete, this was my experience. I suspect if I'd treated my occasional panic and almost-panic attacks sooner, my panic might not have developed into a full-blown panic disorder. After a while, panic attacks become their own trigger, that is -- fear of having one can push a person over the edge into having one.
Jilli, if you have any more questions you want to ask, please feel free, either here or e-mail is good (but I've been a big skipper and skimmer, lately).
Okay, now I want to talk about 80s vids.
Oh again! I loved Van Halen's video for "Jump," but I think that might have been 90s, too. It was Sammy Hagar, not Dave ... I can't believe I'm blanking on his last name.
Amy, Jump isn't Hagar. It's still David Lee Roth era Van Halen. You just lost some massive 80s cred there, girlie.
I think Cashmere's right about Total Eclipse of the Heart being the iconic 80s video. The only challenger I can think of is Pat Benetar's Love is a Battlefield, and Duran Duran's Hungry Like the Wolf. These were all so big, and overblown, like the 80s themselves.
Of course then there was Michael Jackson's Thriller, which deserves a category of its own. Honorable mentions should go to Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Madonna's Like a Virgin, ZZ Top's Legs, Peter Gabriel's Sledge Hammer, Human League's Don't You Want Me, Baby?, Culture Club's I'll Tumble 4 Ya, and Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love, because they were each so new in their own way.
That said, none of those were my favorites and (confession) Duran Duran never really did it for me. I had a big thing for Stevie Nicks, Fleetwood Mac, and of course, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas. Asia, Loverboy, and the Go-Go's always mean MTV to me, and I can't hear Def Leppard without seeing their vids in my mind.
My favorite vid was April Wine's Just Between You and Me though, and it was just a plain concert (or concert style) vid. *sigh*