About half of all people who suffer from panic attacks also suffer from sleep panic attacks.
As our lives become more hectic, we try to fit more into each day until we start cutting back on sleep. There comes a point when a person realizes that their sleep cycle has become disrupted: insomnia and other sleep disorders start to manifest their presence.
What is a Sleep Panic Attack?
Quite simply, a sleep panic attack is a panic attack that happens when a person is asleep. The symptoms are the same as a regular day-time panic attack, and the duration is also similar, ranging from 15 seconds to 30 minutes.
Why do Sleep Panic Attacks Seem Worse?
When you fall asleep, your defences go down, and you’re not consciously aware of any stressful situations. That’s why some people find it extremely worrying that they suffer from panic attacks when they sleep. However, sleep panic attacks are common among panic attack patients.
The symptoms of a sleep panic attack are the same as a regular attack, and tend to include dizziness and heart palpitations. Because these symptoms are associated with heart attacks, people tend to be scared that they’re having a cardiac arrest. When such an attack happens more than once, patients worry that they’ll die of a heart attack in their sleep. Such thinking might seem morbid to anyone else, but as a former panic attack sufferer, I can tell you that that’s exactly what I thought: that I’d die one day soon of a heart attack, while I slept.
What makes Such Attacks So Serious?
In the case of any panic attack, the patient starts to dread situations associated with the panic attack. In the case of a sleep panic attack, this situation is night-time and sleep.
The patient starts to dread having to go to sleep, and starts to fear sleep itself. This leads to further problems in sleeping, which leads to greater likelihood of being vulnerable to a panic attack. As you can see, it’s quite a vicious cycle.
Dealing with Sleep Panic Attacks:
Sleep panic attacks can lead to further problems if they affect your sleep cycle, and your ability to fall asleep. If you have panic attacks when you sleep, you need to start taking steps immediately to deal with them. Lack of sleep can lead to troubles in all spheres of life, and left by themselves sleep panic attacks can create complicated problems.
As a former panic attacks sufferer, I experienced all the panic related problems and know how they can ruin a person’s life and turn it to an everlasting hell.
But after struggling for 3 years, I was able to totally eliminate my panic attacks and gain back my normal life.
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