Perfect Panic Attack Roche

Patrick Roche, a YouTube famous slam poet, writes about his experiences with panic attacks. During the panic attacks, the body is in a specific state of mind: fight or flight mode. These responses his body is giving off makes him feel like he is dying. Roche’s Perfect Panic Attack slam poem is not about having a perfect panic attack but more about him showing the reality of his life in the moment of a panic attack. When the audience first sees the title of Roche’s poem, they interpret the perfect panic attack as being just that, perfect. As Roche explains the perfect panic attack, he starts off with stating “find a trigger.” He then goes on to tell us what these triggers may be when presented to him in the form such as a “job interview, a