Panic attacks while sleeping

In the middle of a dark lonely night, you find yourself staring at a ceiling that has been run through with demonic horns. And they glitter, as blood drips from and into your eyes….Whoosh! A Nightmare. It is then, that you realize your body is going numb and cold, writhing in awkward directions as if bewitched, your heart gulped by a sinking feeling, your sweat buds puking out oodles of that salty wetness and your brain gone on a hike to Mt. Everest. The Nightmare has just begun.

Panic attacks, are terrible bouts of anxiety soiled with a pump-up of adrenaline and all that follows it. Though, it usually happens in broad daylight, there are these rarest-of-the-rare cases, where you hit them while you’re asleep. The worst part is that when encountering such an anxiety bang, you aren’t wakeful enough to understand what’s going on.

It’s largely taken as a bolt from the blue, and in most cases, it’s mistaken for a heart-attack. The reason behind these attacks cannot be properly explained. It could be the outcome of a stressful period, like coming over to a new neighborhood, losing a loved one, and so on. But there have been cases reported, where the victim had no such basis, and yet the catastrophe struck him. In such cases, it’s completely unexplainable, except the fact that such guys must have had a repressed emotional past, and have lived most of their lives as cagey introverts. But, if we are to deal with it, one thing should be kept in mind- a panic attack is a symptom, not a disease in itself. It’s the bursting of a build-up of stress and edginess.

If the root is destroyed, the branches shall succumb. Behavioral therapies and Psychological counsel can put you at ease over your misgivings. Though, medicating the symptoms, with prescription drugs and tranquilizers, will calm you down, as if a sort of peace has stolen over you, the volcano has to be pushed back to dormancy. It is the core that has to be resolved, and if the solace reaches you inside, the olive branches shall naturally bloom on the outside.