An TV meteorologist is being praised for how he handled an on-air panic attack. ABC News Australia's Nate Byrne was presenting his weather segment on Tuesday's Daily Breakfast when he felt the attack coming on. "I'm actually going to need to stop for a second.
Some of you may know that I occasionally get affected by some panic attacks, and actually that's happening right now, Lisa, maybe I could hand back to you," he said before cameras cut to his colleague. "You certainly can Nate," said the show's co-host Lisa Mitchell, going on to promote a piece Byrne previously wrote about the same topic. "It's fantastic that he has been so open and transparent about it.
And the response when he first wrote about it and spoke about it was that everyone said, 'Thank God. Nate's not perfect. We thought he was perfect, but actually he's now sharing something,'" she said.
"We'll put that up, and you can get a little bit of an understanding of some of the things that go on with our brains and our bodies when we're doing live television." Later, Mitchell welcomes Byrne back. "Very pleased to say that our wonderful colleague Nate is back with us," she said.
"Sorry if I gave anybody a bit of a scare there," Byrne said. Nate Byrne experienced a panic attack while presenting the weather. He’s open about his panic attacks — he’s even written about them before — and he’s doing okay.
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