hyperventilate

When the body hyperventilates, the sympathetic nervous system is activated, triggering the body’s “fight or flight” response.

Ms Benson said she explained her son's medical history and told the call handler he was hyperventilating, in agony and could not move.

“You can’t see anything and you are just hoping for the best. I was hyperventilating in the car. My husband was on the phone. He’s like, ‘You can do this,’ ” she recalled.

“Shrinking,” being a show about therapy and grief, asks us to consider something brave — especially before an election that has many hyperventilating into paper bags.

Everyone else’s alarm may be reflected in Alicent’s quiet hyperventilating with her eyes frozen wide with horror and disillusionment as she finally grasps her total powerlessness.