Panic Attacks Support Group

A panic attack is a period of intense fear or discomfort, typically with an abrupt onset and usually lasting no more than thirty minutes. Symptoms include trembling, shortness of breath, heart palpitations, sweating, nausea, dizziness, hyperventilation, and sensations of choking or smothering. Panic attacks can be very sudden, appear to be unprovoked, and are often...

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Can one treat nocturnal attacks/night terrors?

JennyMay
JennyMay
My partner and I are about to resort to sleeping in seperate beds. He's not getting enough sleep on the nights I have a panic attack or a night terror, though it doesn't effect me too much as I tend to fall asleep soon after they happen (I don't even remember it happening last night!).

I'd like to see a sleep therapist, but I'm not sure it's worth it if there's nothing they can do. It's not like they'll give me drugs to help me sleep every night for the rest of my life, and I don't want that anyway. What advise/treatment have other people been given in this situation?
harry3333
harry3333
maybe ask him to hug you when it happens
I doubt that sleep apnea has anything to do with it
these nocturnal panic attacks perhaps are caused by dreams antidepressantt meds and some others cause vivid dreams??
harry3333
harry3333
maybe ask him to hug you when it happens
I doubt that sleep apnea has anything to do with it
these nocturnal panic attacks perhaps are caused by dreams antidepressantt meds and some others cause vivid dreams??
JennyMay
JennyMay
Not taking any medication of any sort. And he can't hug me all night, sometimes we'll spoon as we fall asleep but it's not like we can stay in that position all night. It seems to be that if he moves at a particular point in my sleep cycle (within the first hour usually) something happens in my mind and sets off a panic attack or night terror.

I'm rarely dreaming anything to cause the attacks/terrors, usually I'll just wake up screaming or panicing with no recollection of the reason
deleted_user
deleted_user
I've had that happen also,but it passed,I dont know,how long have you had this?If you have a panic disorder,have you been treated with medication for it?Give a bit more info please...D o you have high stress/anxiety in day?because I think its what caused mine to start,but it stopped out of no where,it still happens occasionally,you might consider a benzo..
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
harry3333
harry3333
a course of aN ANTIDEPRESSANT SUCH AS PROZAC SOMETIMES STOPS PANIC ATTACKS and perhaps the night terrors
sometimes videotaping the terrors and playing it back to him may help
JennyMay
JennyMay
Wow Harry3333, thanks, I get the point :P

I don't have panic attacks during the day. I started having them in 2007 when I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my leg. That's no longer an issue but the stress of dealing with that caused me to start having panic attacks during the day. But it's been in the last 2 years that it's happened solely at night.