Re: Panic, hyperventilation and perpetuation of anxiety. (last post on this topic...maybe)

 I see on the basis of long experience over the year that "mental illness", which I consider to be a misnomer, to be primarily physical and secondarily "psychological". See:

Assumption in Psychotherapy

Most of the physical aspects involves "hypglycemia" as demonstrated by the vast majority of people with mood disorders that are are found in fact to be  hypoglycemic. Gyland and here.

This is not to say that hypoglycemia alone is the only factor. There are many other silent illnesses that contribute to mood disorders, apart from hypoglycemia. 

See:

Silent Diseases and Mood Disorders

But talk therapy (if necessary) should only be undertaken after the physical factors have been corrected.

Thus the cardinal principle in nutritional psychotherapy is that treatment of the physical aspects takes precedence over psychotherapy. In some cases I have found that nutritional therapy alone will help a person. But generally psychotherapy aims at teaching social skills after many years of having suffered from a mood disorder that may have interfered with normal psychological maturation.