Part of the problem is the embarrassment. You do not want to talk about having to pee. It is gross, and no one wants to be gross, especially not a young woman still trying to reconcile life in the body. Later, you will find out that panic attacks disproportionately afflict young women in their twenties. Later, your dad will invite you to shadow him on a night shift in the emergency room for an article you are writing, and you will discover the ER at three o’clock in the morning is not full of blood and gore but women in their twenties having panic attacks. There is a particular, feminine shame
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