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.
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.
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?”
Sleep panic attacks happen for some reasons. They may be triggered because of too much stress during the day. A person may have experienced something very heavy during the day like losing a sale or failing an examination and there was no outlet for it, then more likely that it will “hunt” him in his sleep. What will happen next is sleep panic attacks. Or it could possibly be caused of a big change in one’s life which will render him huge stress. A loss of a love one or job, or even starting of a new job, these are factors that may affect panic attack even as we 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.
So be aware that sleep panic attacks exist. Guard yourself from that and sleep better.
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