Who is Paula Dean? Why did she have so many panic attacks?

Paula Deen (not Dean) is fairly well-known American cook with her own cooking show on the Food Network. She has a very thick, Southern accent and likes to cook a lot of Southern comfort food. She has also published several books and own two restaurants.

Supposedly she has a talk show, or will have one soon, but I haven't seen it myself. She is currently in her 60's. Paula was married when she was 18, pregnant by the time she was 19, and both her parents died when she was 23, making her an orphan.

She then settled into a depression and that was about the time her panic attacks started. They continued for 20 years, making her feel confined to her house. During the time, she consulted with her preacher, who then called her a spoiled brat.

Then she attended one session with a psychiatrist but couldn't afford to go back--plus she was deeply shamed by her episodes and seeing a psychiatrist back then meant you were "crazy". So she mostly hid away at home during all those years, just trying to cook for her family as a way to keep happy. At some point she saw The Phil Donahue Show that named her illness as agoraphobia.It is a fear of being in places that could induce anxiety like large areas (grocery store), crowds, big bridges, etc. In the meantime, she managed to make a living by making brown-bag-lunches and having her sons sell them to office workers.

This landed her on the Oprah Winfrey Show. A shopping network picked up her cookbook in 1998 and sold 70,000 copies in one day. Here is a quote from another site: " 'One day, I felt like I could see clearly, like I had woken up that day and someone had flipped a switch.

I decided that I was not going to let the fear that controlled my life control me anymore. I decided to get out of my bed and start living life to the fullest,' says Deen on her Web site.

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