Jeanne,
I would be interested in knowing if you feel panic attacks, mood alterations, etc... could possible be involved in things where people turn violent. Like the Andrea Yates case where she drowned her children. In other words, could she have been helped? Was she misdiagnosed perhaps? The papers said, "The motive for killing her children, he indicated, appeared to be the same as her suicide: to escape an intolerable, high-stress situation." Isn't stress a factor in panics? I'm asking because I'm ignorant on this subject and because I very much would like to know and feel you are a very good expert to ask!

JJ