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OK a bit more. Once the symptoms start, a friendly doc basically says the only fix now is to relax, destress, and not work as hard but of course... no, it's Tony. He starts to do neurochem hacks to fix it. They don't work - oh they work, in the basic sense of fixing the chemistry, but...

As anybody who has/had panic attacks can tell you (me) that one way of explaining them is the body desperately trying to tell you take it easy before you kill yourself with stress (real or imagined, it doesn't mean beans to your body crew.)

In my case, I corrected the attacks with meds, but the stress then migrated to phantom scalp itch, unexplained other symptoms, etc. I had to remove the actual stressors before things improved. But I can imagine Tony literally hacking his own brain into bits trying to fix the symptoms.