I've never been hospitalised for my disorder, but I was once hospitalised with complete panic and pain in my heart and back... as though I'd been kicked in the ribs repeatedly by a rabid donkey. They never figured out what was wrong with me, and I managed to escape before they realised I was bonkers. I know what triggered it, and I do think it was an emotional breakdown, not just a sore everything. The doctor said something about "broken heart syndrome"... my husband had just died. If it hadn't been for him I'd have been hospitalised several years earlier than I did. The man did look after me. After his death I couldn't last a week without him.