People with panic attacks often complain of anxiety, depression, intense discomfort and fear. The episodes may last a few minutes to some hours and can occur without warning and since there is no trigger to initiate these attacks it is also noticed that people with this problem live with a constant anxiousness as to when the next episode may occur. Thus ebbing their natural energy and leaving them feeling mentally and physically exhausted. Patients often show signs of hyperventilation, sweating, and difficulty in breathing, digestive problems and chest pain. With over 40 known causes and signs of people with Panic attacks the most common ones are, sweating, fear, palpitations, difficulty breathing normally, nausea, chills, hyperventilation, trembling, choking, discomfort, chest pain, racing or rapid heart beating and unknown anxiety. Generally these symptoms are felt suddenly without any warning and can occur out of the blue for no apparent reason. Mostly they may occur when the person is under stress or some kind of pressure. This is not mandatory for every episode.
Due to this the problem may even lead to sleeplessness or insomnia. Excessive consumption of drugs, alcohol, caffeine or stimulants can have an effect on the person. Whatever the cause they are generally unexpected and catch the person unawares. Since these episodes come without any apparent reason or without any predetermined schedule more than the episode itself the person has anticipatory anxiety and this itself can lead to a lot of discomfort and ill health for the person. These thoughts can lead to some form of phobia in the person and can lead to unrelated fear of anything and everything. The anxiousness borders on other factors like sleep and thus lead to sleep depravation also. Due to the fact that these episodes or attacks can occur at night leaving the person feeling exhausted and in a state of terror so much so that the person may fear going to sleep in case he/she may experience another attack.
Sleeplessness stems from this phobia and can lead to sleep disorders like insomnia and have other side effects that come along with all the sleep disorders. The condition may worsen to an extent where the person fears any situation or place where he feels there is no way out and that is called agoraphobia. These people do not want to leave the safety of their home since they fear crowds and feel that places that are frequent spots of population can be sources of these attacks and hence lose out on their social life too. Episodes can be treated by understanding what triggered these attacks in the first place and ruling out any underlying medical problem and following some of the common self help methods that help in treating the sleep disorder and also working out some methods of group therapy and alternative activities that could relax and ease the mind so as to not focus on the anxiety part of the problem.
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