Anxiety plagues us mentally, but it can also take a nasty physical toll. An anxiety attack is our body’s way of saying it can no longer deal with the stress hormones overwhelming it. It can feel like a heart attack. Sometimes it takes a medical event of that magnitude to prompt us to seek help and make the changes we need, both physically and mentally.
Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.
