End Panic Attacks in Sleep Now!

About half of all panic attacks sufferers experience nocturnal panic attacks or panic attacks in sleep. This is extremely distressing as it leads to the person being scared to go to bed for fear of having another panic attack which develops into a new problem of insomnia.

Sleep panic attacks are not caused by your dreams or nightmares. They happen during the second stage of sleep not the REM (dream) stage. Sleep panic attacks are generally triggered after an especially anxious or stressful day. They can also be induced by alcohol or drug use.

Sleep panic attacks are very distressing as we are at our lowest point during the night-time and having a full blown panic attack wake us up we are naturally in fear for our life. As we worry about the possibility of this attack being a heart attack or stroke we get more anxious and the symptoms become worse. Rational thought is difficult in the dark of night and there isn't always someone at hand that we can talk to about the problem.

The more we worry about panic attacks in sleep the more likely they are to happen again. Lack of sleep can also make your symptoms worse.

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It is important to understand that the sleep panic attack is a symptom of your anxiety, they are harmless in themselves and in order to cure your sleep panic attacks you must dig deep to discover the cause of your anxiety. It may not be anything obvious, it could be something from your childhood that a recent event triggered into a full blown panic attack. On the other hand it could be ongoing untreated general anxiety that are causing the sleep panic attacks.

Once you have treated the cause of your anxiety successfully your panic attacks in sleep will disappear.

Ways to help alleviate your sleep panic attacks are to avoid alcohol, drugs or stimulants such as coffee before bedtime. Try to read a book or listen to soothing music to relax your mind and body before bed. Try meditation before bed. Meditation has been proven to lower blood pressure and totally relax the body and mind. Think calming thoughts and train your mind to relax and calm down whenever events upset you.

When you experience a panic attack understand that it will not harm you and that it will soon pass and breathe deeply and slowly and allow the feelings to wash over you without getting agitated and upset. When you tighten up and get upset this just magnifies your anxiety symptoms. Relaxation during a panic attack is very hard to do at first but with practice it does get easier.

Get immediate help to get to the root cause of your anxiety disorder and panic attacks in sleep will be a thing of your past.

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