INSIDE COA, THE NEW GYM FOR MENTAL HEALTH

I HAD MY first panic attack in college a few months before graduation. Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers had his in front of millions of viewers during a televised game against Atlanta. The stakes were slightly different, but the symptoms were remarkably similar. “It was like my body was trying to say to me, ‘You’re about to die,’” Love wrote of the experience, adding: “I ended up on the floor in the training room, lying on my back, trying to get enough air to breathe.” As for me, I was on the floor of a beer-stained campus restroom convinced I was having a heart attack.

We’d both waited for a crisis to finally seek treatment, which is the second (and probably last) thing I have in common with