Understanding Panic Attacks That Go Off When You Sleep
The mind is such a powerful thing, so powerful that it does not stop working. Just like the heart, they work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Even if we sleep, there is no sleeping to these two. For this reason, panic attack may even get you while you sleep. One may refuse to believe this fact but they cannot do anything about it. It is the reality of things.
To refresh our minds about panic attack, authorities define it as a sudden “period of intense fear and discomfort.” This fear that is felt with panic attack is not normal. This is not the fear that you will be late for the exams or the fear of being bitten by ants but this is an “intense fear”, something that when it happens, you feel like struggling between life and death.
Of course, just like any other disease, panic attack also has its symptoms. There are actually many but to name a few we have the “racing heart”, trembling, dizziness, nausea, sweating, difficulty of breathing and other. One must know these symptoms whether it is panic attack or not because a lot of symptoms for panic attack can also be symptoms of other disease. Like the “racing heart”, this symptom is often mistaken for heart attack. So do not get in to the risk of a more dangerous disease, be sure about the symptoms that you are experiencing.
So much for a refresher course on panic attacks, what about now with what they call sleep panic attacks. Is this for real or just another scam for people who would like to deceive others for profit? But hey, it is for real. You see it on your TV screens. Remember the movies where the actor jolts off his bed, screaming, his heart pumping hard, he is full of sweat and he shakes? Those are exactly the symptoms mentioned above.
Sometimes, there is a question of how many time sleep panic attacks occur. There is no knowing to this yet. The point is it happens even in our sleep. The question would rather be, “why?”
There are some reasons for these sleep panic attacks. It could be directly of what happened during that day. Maybe a big even carrying a big amount of stress occurred. Take for example a huge bidding process of your company and you did not win, surely this will stir up something in you. Especially when you have no way to let it out, more probably, sleep panic attack will happen in the evening. It could also be due to a dramatic change in your life; a new job, a new baby, or even death in the family. And of course, it could also happen if you are thinking and worrying too much what if panic attack will happen again while you sleep.
Even if it does not really happen like in the movies were they jump off their bed screaming, sometime you will get that feeling in the morning that you are still tired. Waking up tired in the morning can sometimes be explained that you had a sleep panic attack. This is really bad because either you will have more attack due to lack of rest or you will be afraid to sleep again because of the fear of an attack.
Sleep panic attacks happen. This is the reality. But even if it does, make it a point that this must not occur to you, or else complication would happen next.
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