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‘Panic attacks are like death’

Rafael Estefania
Features correspondent
A woman faces her crippling anxiety by diving 18m below in Thailand

For anxiety-prone Erin Craig, learning to scuba dive alternated between being the most amazing experience and fears that she was going to die.

Travel Journeys is a BBC Travel series exploring travellers’ inner journeys of transformation and growth as they experience the world.

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