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Discover If You Are Experiencing Night Panic Attacks
Our ancestors while having their own set of issues never faced the daily barrage of stressors that we have to deal with. Many nights sleep is lost due to that stress. Not only do we feel ragged and depleted the next day, we tend to age quicker due to our body not recovering and resting the way it should. As this get worse, we begin to experience nocturnal anxiety attacks, which will disrupt not only our sleep pattern but our life.
As human beings we need to rest approximately every 16 hours. Our resting period lasts approximately 8 hours and then we're up again. There is no way around this cycle. Sooner or later our bodies must rest. When something causes a disruption in the normal course of life, the sleep awake balance is lost and problems start to arise. People who have a tendency of sleeping less than usual are likely to suffer from chronic sleep problems and one such issue of concern is sleep panic attacks.
Nocturnal anxiety disorder encompasses several symptoms which are present in other sleep disorders making a reliable diagnosis difficult. During the first stages of the night attacks, you will not sleep much or well for that matter and will most certainly feel drained the next morning. You are advised to seek a professional to help you through this when such a situation occurs.
The general symptoms of panic attacks while sleeping are insomnia, sleepiness during the day and unpredictable sleeping patterns. Insomnia is more predominant than the other two symptoms in the initial stages. Also panic attacks during sleep are routine with people having abnormal sleeping behaviors.
As much as 50% of all panic disorder sufferers experience some nocturnal anxiety disorder.
One of the worse side effects of panic attacks while sleeping is that the sufferers tend to build up a fear of sleeping and that increases their anxiety and complicates matters even more. However, turning to sleep pills isn't the way to address these issues as the pills can make you dependent and not clear the problem.
Night panic attacks should not be assigned to dreams as the attacks occur at the earlier stages of what is known as Rapid Eye Movement.Therefore, dreams cannot be held responsible for triggering panic attacks. Also, the occurrence of nocturnal anxiety attacks can result in sudden waking up, tremblings, breathlessness, dread, sweating and shudders. Such symptoms usually come about when the person is in deep sleep.
We still do not know the exact cause of panic attacks occurring during sleep. Some experts suspect that the cause may be the buildup of carbon dioxide within the body while we sleep. This has been referred to as the "false suffocation alarm".
Sleep panic attacks is treatable and can be decimated with medications.
Taking into consideration that these disorders can be cured with restrictions and behavior modifications, the use of medications should only be used as a last resort. To be clear, we're talking about anxiety medications and not sleeping pills.
A key part of your intervention is for you to make peace with yourself and with your disorder. This doesn't mean that you have to accept it. Just accept that you have it and move peacefully to find a cure. Before you try to explain your situation to anyone else you must first comprehend it The more you talk about your situation the better the intervention. Some sufferers experienced a reduction of panic attacks after they quit smoking and limited their use of caffeine and alcohol. These substances can easily increase the intensity of an attack. Additionally I would say that self help is the best help to cure night panic attacks.
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