This Week's The Pitt Made Supriya Ganesh Feel 'Awful'

"The panic attack was a surprise to me. But then I was like, 'Why would we ever know a panic attack is coming?' I leaned into the unexpectedness of it. I have had my own experience with it in the past, and I was having, weirdly, imposter syndrome about my panic attack. Did I even really experience it? I was looking up symptoms, and I was like, Oh no, I did."

"She processes how awful it is after the fact in a way that a lot of people process something that's traumatic. It's a galling moment Ganesh communicates with a devastated, dazed expression and a glimmer of what she considers Mohan's own self-hatred."

Resident Samira Mohan faces mounting pressures during a particularly difficult shift at the hospital. Her diabetic patient leaves due to financial concerns, personal family issues demand her attention, the computer system fails during a waterpark emergency, and she becomes overwhelmed by desperate patients in the waiting room. These cascading stressors trigger a panic attack. Her supervisor Dr. Robby responds with contempt rather than compassion, cursing at her and telling her to leave. Actress Supriya Ganesh drew on personal experience with panic attacks to authentically portray Mohan's unexpected breakdown and subsequent emotional devastation, capturing how trauma is often processed after the fact.

Read at Vulture