Sleep panic attacks are not as uncommon as one may think. Although they may seem to have no apparent cause, they are usually the result of stress during the day. Whether it is ongoing stress, or a trauma or stressful event, there is most probably a route cause to sleep panic attacks. If these emotional challenges are not dealt with while awake, they can manifest themselves in the form of nightmares or sleep panic attacks. You can read more about this at: panic attacks while sleeping.

If panic attacks while sleeping become a frequent occurrence, they can lead a person to develop other problems. The person can start to fear going to bed and sleeping, which may lead to insomnia. It could be that the sleep panic attacks are disturbing their routine of sleep already. In turn, leading to more tiredness and stress and so increased chance of feeling anxious.

If this is happening to you, the first step is to remind yourself that you are not in any danger of physical harm. If you wake up in a state of panic, it can be a very strange and disorientating experience. Just remember you cannot come to any harm. Next, start the deep breathing and relaxation exercises that you would use during the day to control panic attacks. It is possible to feel a bit paralyzed as you are not fully awake, but it is nothing to worry about. When the body is in REM sleep, it is normal for some muscles to become inactive as they undergo the natural repair process. This effect is hardly ever noticed by anyone because we are asleep at the time, but is nothing to worry over. More information can be found here: curing panic attacks.

To stop sleep panic attacks, the root cause of the anxiety needs to be addressed, just like with any other panic attacks. There are immediate steps, can be taken to minimize the risk of the attacks coming on. Stretching in the evening is a good practice, especially after some light exercise. Stretching out the muscles in your legs is a good habit for anyone and can help relax for a good nights’ sleep.

Sleep apnea and some other conditions can bring about some similar symptoms to those of sleep panic attacks. If the attacks only ever come about while sleeping then you need to think about whether it may not be panic attacks but one of the other sleep-related conditions. To be more certain about it, it is advised to talk it over with a doctor. For more info, click: panic cure.

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Panic attacks are so bad that they can disturb your life in so many ways. It may even lead to loss of family, friends and more importantly your job. There are medications and therapies which will aid panic attacks though. However, there are a lot of ways to overcome panic attacks and see them off or keep it under control.

Physical reactions are caused by panic attacks. Medications and therapies only help controlling these reactions but not fully curing them. It can go to the extent of stabilizing your body but it mostly depends on the person to cope up with such attacks when it strikes. A psychiatrist can help in a great way to revive back to normalcy. He may even advice you on the medication before any treatment.

Mostly, anti-depressants and anti anxiety medication are prescribed for panic attacks on the body. Beta blockers can be used to treat symptoms, mainly physical, associated with the anxiety attacks. You tend to focus more on the psychological portion of the fear and anxiety by helping yourself physically. Tricyclic, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, benzodiazepines and Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or the SSRIs are anti-depressants that can aid symptoms of anxiety disorders. Many a time, anxiety leads to depression and unwanted worry. These medications, however, help you bring some lost relief. Apparently, benzodiazepines help to reduce panic attacks surprisingly up to 80%. Medications differ for every sort of panic attack.

No medication should be hurried as it takes sometime for the medicines to get settled and react in your body. So patience is the key in treatments such as these. It might even take a week or so to work and feel the full effect of it. However, if it takes too long to have an impact in your body, doctors could be sought and asked about it. Medicines prescribed for these anxieties sometimes work on trial and error basis. Not all medicines work and not all medications might sink in your body quickly. It takes a lot of time for it to have any sort of impact. The dosages may vary for various medications.

Following a medication, therapy is a preferred follow-up. A therapist is one who can help you handle the anxiety in a more pragmatic way. Therapy uses the fact of role playing which is quite an effective tool that help you work through various problems without even being in the situation before. You imagine yourself being in an anxiety-stricken situation and think about how you could have avoided it. This makes it less worrisome and fearful. These skills might prove to be handy someday when you really are put in such a situation.

Self calming techniques can be kind of a morale booster if you are suffering from a panic attack and have no help to seek out. The most common self calming technique being breathing. Ten deep breathes through your nose can be rally soothing and helpful for you to counter panic attacks. It boosts your spirit and calms you down terrifically and thereby preventing any panic attack striking you. You can imagine yourself handling such predicaments with ease and feel inspired to do so in real time. This certainly helps to regain control and focus and hence preventing panic attacks take the better of you. There are many other tools that can help you with panic attacks. A therapist is probably the best person who can individually help you control such attacks. Hard work and good medication can ensure a good life without panic attacks.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/panic-attacks-few-tips-to-tackle-the-suffering-709356.html

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Panic attacks and anxiety disorders affect even 5 year olds. The difference between these panic attacks on children and the same on adults is that the former one is tougher to detect. It is often misdiagnosed as a deficit disorder when it actually happens to be a panic attack on the child. Even hyperactivity is suspected sometimes, the main reason being the symptoms are close to being the same for both these kind of disorders. So it is often misdiagnosed in children.

While the anxiety disorders or attacks happen for some reason or the other and can be fairly identified, the panic attacks are never predictable. It can happen more than twice without any reason at all. The problem lies in identifying these causes. When these have an effect on 5 year olds, it might or might not have a cause depending on the diagnosis, but still it is advised to be addressed. The fact that it is hard to explain what the 55 year old feels makes these panic attacks unpredictable.

Like adults, children too have their own worries. It becomes disaster only when these worries and tension turn into panic and attacks their ability to live normally. This is quite a serious problem that can happen to any child. It can happen to them anywhere, especially at school or at home. These panic attacks can be specific as well, depending on the lifestyle of the kid, mostly just like adults. Adults understand it better than children, obviously. When these panic attacks have their impact on children, patient diagnoses and treatment is desired. Every child is unique and heir behaviors vary from how they do in school and at home.

The main two reasons for panic attacks on 5 year olds is the agony of separation and the avoidance factor, the latter being the more severe one. Some children may just have anxiety on less specific things and thus making diagnosing a tad difficult. But 5 year olds, especially boys, find it very tough to cope up with their parent’s separation, for instance. Being avoided too makes it a problem for these young kids as they all thrive for attention and care at that age. The child carrying an abuse may feel shy to let it out, thus inviting panic attacks on it.

Panic attacks on children reveal in various forms, ranging from physical to psychological. Physical symptoms include intense sweating and difficulty in breathing. Psychological symptoms could be hard to explain for the child, but they mostly include abuse and avoidance. Children are often left bemused over their state, as it is understandably hard for them to perceive their problem. The child may be suffering from agoraphobia or the fear of social situations. The parents have to take extra care and concern on these budding children when they have an idea about the panic attacks their child is suffering from.

The first thing you do when you identify that your child is having panic attacks is to understand to avoid minimizing the problem. Patient treatment and good relaxation can solve this issue.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/panic-attacks-on-5-year-olds-get-to-know-what-to-do-dont-neglect-709355.html

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Out of all the sleeping disorders in medical science, ‘fatal familial insomnia’ is one of the rarest, least understood sleeping disorders there is.

What we know about ‘fatal familial insomnia’?

* It is an inherited disorder.
* It has only been detected in about 28 families in the world, that have the dominant gene.
* Only about 50% of the people with the dominant gene develop the disorder.
* There is no cure at this time.
* The onset starts at 30 to 60 years of age.
* The sleep disorder usually runs about 7 to 18 months.

Fatal familial insomnia disease runs a cycle of 4 stages.

* Stage 1-the sufferer deals with increased insomnia
1. He or she experiences sever panic attacks brought on by lack of sleep
2. He or she develops various kinds of phobias
3. The duration lasts about 4 months
* Stage 2-hallucinations begin to occur
1. He or she has increased and obvious panic attacks
2. The duration lasts about 5 months
* Stage 3-absolute, total inability to sleep
1. Extreme weight loss occurs
2. Duration lasts about 3 months
* Stage 4-the onset of dementia takes hold of the sufferer
1. He or she becomes irresponsive and mute
2. The duration lasts about 6 months

The content of these stages of ‘fatal familial insomnia disease’ are similar to those for Alzheimer’s disease. However, you will notice the time frame and duration differs dramatically for each disease. Where fatal familial insomnia is over a course of months to a little over a year; in comparison to Alzheimer’s sufferers have a course of several years to cope. Plus, Alzheimers’s disease progressively deteriorates the mental capabilities to the degree of complete loss of memory.

There is a great concern on treatment for fatal familial insomnia. Medical science has no insights as to why it is fatal or creating effective treatment options to help or cure the problem. Neither sleeping pills nor non-medicinal therapy work to alleviate the condition.

With the expanding knowledge and genetic testing on inherited diseases and disorders; menical science will be able to find a fix that can be medicinally or therapeutically prescribed to help sufferers. Depending on how the medical world pays attention to this disorder and pushes for necessary funding to develop a cure. Through effective genetic testing and following families’ history from generation to generation; will medical science be able to determine if fatal familial insomnia disease occurs in each generation or skips a generation. Determining a pattern for the disease will be one step closer to a cure.

Fatal familial insomnia disease is rare enough, it doesn’t get the research needed for a cure as other sleep disorders get. Yet, it’s NOT rare enough to get the proper recognition to qualify for the treatment research programs.

At the rate medical science technology is developing; it is just a matter of time, they will catch up and have the help that over 60 million people world wide need to receive a restful night of sleep.

Abhishek Agarwal

http://www.articlesbase.com/sleep-articles/fatal-familial-insomnia-little-known-facts-about-this-rare-disorder-739590.html

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Millions of people experience panic attacks each year. The symptoms are extremely uncomfortable, and can closely mirror life-threatening physical problems. Restlessness, nervousness, or feeling scared are common psychological symptoms. The physical symptoms can include chest pain, tingling or numbness in the extremities, racing heart, diarrhea, stomach pain, and headaches. Twitches or other involuntary movements are not uncommon. But there are ways to cure your panic attacks and find relief from these extremely uncomfortable and frightening symptoms.

1. Curing Panic Attacks – First Steps

Most doctors will begin the process of curing your panic attacks by prescribing anti-anxiety medication. This will allow a few things to happen: Your physical symptoms will decrease or go away. Your mood and mental condition will stabilize. You will be able to live again without fearing the onset of a panic attack.

2. Learning to Live Again

After you have gotten your feet back under you and the medications are working, your doctor will recommend a therapist. The role therapy plays in curing panic attacks cannot be underestimated. While the medications can provide relief from the symptoms, a true cure for your panic attacks can only come from within yourself. A therapist will help you work through the issues that are causing the panic attacks in the first place. It is very rare that a person has panic attacks without some underlying factor causing it. Only once these issues have been worked through will curing your panic attacks be complete.

3. Dealing in the Meantime

If you can’t go see a doctor right away, there are some things you can do that can help you manage your stress and help control your panic attacks. Most of these are simply relaxation techniques of some form or another, so you can feel free to do whatever relaxes you best. If you can lose yourself in a game, for instance, that can be just as effective at staving off a panic attack as meditation.

Deep breathing: In through the nose, out through the mouth, ten times, when you get into a situation that may provoke a panic attack or causes you undue stress. Do not hyperventilate. Ten, and only ten, deep, slow breaths, then take a break.

Meditation: Practicing meditation every day is a great way to relax and let go of some of the stress you build up every day. Proficiency at this can even help you control impending panic attacks by relaxation. Just begin meditating if you feel a panic attack coming on or in progress, and continue until it subsides.

Counting down: Count down from 100 whenever you start feeling like you may be having a panic attack. Focus only on the numbers, and try to relax. This can help you stave off a panic attack.

4. Cognitive Therapy

You can change the way you think, if you put your mind to it. If you approach a situation as a frightening one, then you will be frightened. Try to adjust the way you look at situations that provoke your panic attacks. If you can convince yourself not that you are no longer scared, but that the situation itself is no longer frightening, then you will no longer be scared in that situation. This process takes time, sometimes a lot of time, but is a sure way of curing panic attacks.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/mental-health-articles/curing-panic-attacks-4-ways-to-take-control-of-your-life-709323.html

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