Robin Meade's Panic Room

"I don't think my bosses here, or the people I worked with, had any idea that I struggled with anxiety."  Anchoress Robin Meade on years of anxiety attacks that started when she was a young anchor at NBC's WMAQ Chicago.

The 40-year-old HLN hottie's book comes out September 10th.  The approved spin:  "Robin Meade is the poster child for confidence and self-assurance. But the anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade wasn't always that way. In fact, there was a period in her career when she was plagued with anxiety and panic attacks. In MORNING SUNSHINE, she tells how she overcame her fear of public speaking to go on and achieve her dream of becoming a news anchor."

"Robin Meade offers her own tried-and-true four-step approach to building confidence. Her trademark warm, personal style translates from the screen to the page in this book, which will give readers even more insight into the young woman who came out of nowhere to become one of the most popular news anchors on television today."

I'm not a shrink but I suspect the Emmy winner's anxiety and panic attacks (same thing) had something to do with an event in her life at the time of the attacks.  She married in 1993.  Had the attacks when she was in Chicago in the mid-to-late 1990s. 

She grew up the daughter of a minister in a small Ohio town.  Went to a no-name college. Shot to stardown as Miss Ohio in 1992 and was one of the top ten Miss America finalists.  Took the beauty queen's predictable route to TV anchordom.

Usually these attacks are the culmination of years covering the vulnerable dragon's missing scale.  I know this because I'm a veteran of years of anxiety/panic attacks that ceased in 2002 with medication. Robin's self-esteem issues go back to her childhood where somehow she was emotionally scarred. 

Related:  Robin's blog