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 recall a little about panic attacks, books define it as a sudden “period of intense fear and discomfort.” Take note that this is not just any ordinary everyday fear that we feel. It is not just the like of fear that you will not catch the bus on time or coffee might spill on your new shirt. Panic attack is one of the many anxiety disorders that are feared so much by people. Who knows, this might even be the “most” feared basing from its definition.
There are many symptoms of panic attacks. They include the “racing heart”, trembling, dizziness, nausea, sweating, difficulty in breathing etc. Often, the symptoms associated with panic attack may also be associated with other disease hence it is important to eliminate which is which to keep yourself risk free from a more dangerous or lethal disease.
But what about sleep panic attacks? It may seem hard to believe that they exist, or that they happen even as we sleep. But there is no denying of it. It is always depicted in movies. You see the scenes where they get up suddenly from their beds screaming? As they do they are already full in sweat or sometimes they tremble. When sound effects are added, you could sometimes hear their heart beat running very fast. There you have the symptoms already, trembling, sweating, and the racing heart.
How many panic attacks happen while you sleep is not yet known. But even if it is not yet known, one thing is clear; they happen as we sleep. Now, you may ask why it still happens when we sleep, when there seems to be no reason that would trigger the panic attack.
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.
Understanding panic attacks that go off when you sleep is important. It is a way to guard yourself against it.
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