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[00:00.00]Unit 17 text A[00:04.70]Panic and Its Effects[00:07.22]恐慌症及其影响[00:09.74]One afternoon while she was preparing dinner in her kitchen,[00:13.22]一天下午，32岁的美国家庭主妇安妮’彼得斯[00:16.69]Anne Peters,a 32-year-old American housewife,[00:19.87]正在厨房做晚饭。[00:23.04]suddenly had severe pains in her chest accompanied by shortness of breath[00:27.36]突然，她感到一阵剧烈的胸痛，并伴有呼吸困难。[00:31.69]Frightened by the thought that she was having a heart attack[00:34.77]安妮以为自己得了心脏病，[00:37.85]Anne screamed for help.[00:40.42]她惊恐万分，尖叫求助。[00:43.00]Her husband immediately rushed Anne to a nearby hospital[00:46.47]她丈夫马上把她送到附近的一家医院。[00:49.95]where her pains were diagnosed as having been caused by panic,[00:53.42]在那儿她的疼痛被诊断为是由惊慌引起的，[00:56.89]and not a heart attack.[00:59.12]而不是心脏病发作。[01:01.34]More and more Americans nowadays are having panic attacks[01:05.16]现在越来越多的美国人得过和安妮[01:08.99]like the one experienced by Anne Peters.[01:11.31]一样的恐慌症发作。[01:13.64]Benjamin Crocker,a psychologist at the University of Southern California[01:17.57]南加利福尼亚大学的心理学家本杰明’克罗克指明说，[01:21.50]reveal that as many as ten million adult Americans have already experienced[01:26.58]多达1000万的美国成年人一生中得过恐慌症[01:31.66]or will experience at least one panic attack in their lifetime.[01:35.90]或至少将得一次。[01:40.13]Moreover, studles conducted by the National Institute[01:43.31]此外，美国国家心理健康研究所进行的研究揭示，[01:46.50]of Mental Healthin the United States disclose that approximately 1.2 million[01:50.18]大约有120万美国人最近有过严重的、[01:53.87]adult individualsare currently suffering from severe and recurrent panic attacks.[01:58.79]复发性的恐慌症发作。[02:03.72]These attacks may last for only a few minutes;[02:06.80]这些恐慌发作可能只持续几分钟，[02:09.88]some,however,continue for several hours.[02:12.91]但有一些则长达数小时。[02:15.94]The symptoms of panic attacks bear such remarkable similarity[02:19.73]恐慌症发作的症状与心脏病发作的症状非常相似，[02:23.52]to those of heart attacks that many victims believe[02:26.69]以致很多患者都以为[02:29.86]that they are indeed having a heart attack.[02:32.66]他们真的是心脏病发作。[02:35.45]Panic attack victims sho