Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Panic Attacks While Sleeping - Is This Normal?

By Carolyn Miller

It is basically not unusual for some other people to experience panic attacks while they are sleeping, or even when they first wake up in the morning. This kind of panic attacks could be quite confusing, and this may also seem that the sleep panic attack may simply happen "out of the blue," and this attack was not provoked by any of a particular event.

For in reality though, sleep panic attack is a symptom that commonly happens because of an excessive stress during the day. Take for example, a person would wake up in the middle of the night and going through a panic attack, this would be caused if that person have gone through a dramatic change in their life, let say by moving from one country to another, a death of a loved one, a close friend, or even a pet!

Rarely, sleep panic attack in an individual could be experienced while they are sleeping and they are still unaware of any of the external stresses or the anxiety that happened during the day. In this case, the person is most likely that the person has been repressing the feeling of anxiousness in their day-to-day life. This would basically occur if they would not allow to vent or express their emotion during the day, they would often express or vent out what they feel at night when they go to sleep, this would then take form as nightmares, bad dreams, and the case of a sleep panic attack.

However, there are important things that a person should have to remember about sleep panic attacks, either they would occur during the day, or perhaps while the person is sleeping. This will not be considered as a condition, but it would be known as a SYMPTOM. This symptom of panic attack is an indicator that you have an imbalance in your life; this would be the build up of the stress as well as anxiety you feel daily.

Panic attacks are normally not that harmful physically, however the terror or the fear that a person would feel after going through panic attacks as they sleep would seem too real, this will also be the cause for them to feel physical stresses such as headaches, muscle soreness, and pains, they would normally feel this in their shoulder and back part.

But, of course sleep panic attacks may also interrupt the person's normal sleeping patterns or habit, and it can very well prevent us of getting the proper night's rest. There will be an instance that a person may become fearful of suffering from another panic attack, this will also raise the person's fear in going to bed, this would later on result a chronic insomnia problem.

Unfortunately, a person would go through or experience a series of insomnia, this would be the cause that they are experiencing sleep panic attacks, as the symptom progresses it will lead to a vicious cycle of experiencing panic attacks and also sleeplessness and it would drastically move into a unpleasant health situation, which will affect the normal ways of our living. Luckily, there have been proven treatments that can reduce or to even eliminate the possibilities of panic attacks.

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