The Boyfriend List (lots of guys that come with lots of trouble)

In the book, The Boyfriend List By E. Lockhart, the main character, Ruby Oliver, goes through tough times when in only a time period of 10 days she feels that she loses everything. The real problem was also that she was having panic attacks and she got them whenever she was overwhelmed with emotions. She wants them to stop but the reason she gets panic attacks is because she doesn't express her emotions. That's where Dr.Z comes into save her. Dr.Z is her shrink that saves her life from eternal attacks. She teaches her how to control them.

I went from being just a leper to being a leper and a famous slut. By Friday,the girls bathroom in the main building had a ton of anti-Roo graffiti, I can only imagine the boys'.

Here she also has a panic attack because she is overwhelmed by the fact that everyone thinks badly of her, not that she deserved it or anything she just shouldn't have let Kim at the boy she was in love with and Kim shouldn't have been a man-stealer and back-stabbing friend like that. If it were me I now I would be mad but I most  definitely wouldn't have panic attacks because I wouldn't put up a wall and not let people see that I am going through tough times, if anything I would tell someone about it.

Another example of a time when she had a panic attack was when she had the party at her house. She had her panic attack because she did many things wrong that night that might regret for the rest of her life. For one thing she drank beer for the first time in her life and as expected did get drunk, but worse of all was that her mom caught her in the act of drinking and was so astonished, she didn't even know what to say to her one and only daughter and child. If I were Ruby's mom would be very disappointed but because at the time she didn't know what her daughter was going through she didn't know that her daughter felt like her life was crumbling around her and felt she couldn't go to anyone for help.

In all, Rubys' panic attacks are caused by a feeling of overwhelming emotion and that was her big problem, but Dr.Z helped her find ways to stop her attacks or prevent them. She told Ruby to take in deep breathes so that she could calm herself before talking to anyone or confronting a situation.