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Am i haveing panic attacks well sleeping or just anxiety attakcs? I go to sleep worreying about stuff and then i have nightmares and i wake up with avreything spinning really fast and my heart ponding it feels like its going to exsplode and im trying to chech my breath its very intence unlike my normle anxiety attacks and im starting to wonder if i been haveing panic attacks well sleeping? Im just asking for advice i know i still need a doctor.

And could you answer my am i haveing tics on my other form? if so thank you i find it alot easyer to get adivce and then look this up before i go to a doctors an assume something. but thanks if you answer that one i really would like to know.

I don't understand you fully, I'm afraid. I'd suggest try to keep your problems out of your sleeping time, by saying to yourself when you feel anxious in your bed, "Every problem I have can't be solved just now, I'll work on them tomorrow, after I slept well, and I'll be not tired then because I'm going to sleep now." Easier said than done, but it can help.

I don't have nightmares (I don't dream that often - or if I do, I don't usually remember them), but I do often wake with a start and find my heart pounding and that I am sweating profusely, and I am disoriented. I don't know why this is, but it has happened for as long as I remember. I have no idea if this is the same as what you are describing, and if it is, I'm sorry that I can't tell you why it happens. All I can say is that because it has been going on forever, I can usually get back to sleep again afterwards (once I lose the disorientation and my heart goes back to normal).

Last year I spend much time writing down my dreams and discussing them from different points of view. So I hope I can say something useful... The first thing you should know, that nothing what happens during dreaming can hurt real you.
Sometimes when I must get up in unusual time using alarm clock, or when I just wake off hearing some lodud sound, I have similar simptoms like you describe. I think the reason is, that it is not very good, to wake up fast, and when you wake up fast, it is like jump from the roof of the house instead using a ladder.
So maybe you should think about how do you wake off, and try to do in smoother.

And the second thing,, have you ever woke up and felt, that you cannot move at all? Many people are very anxious when they feel something like this, but in most cases this is normal state of body during sleeping... So you wake up "too early", when you body is not ready.

A good idea should be to analyse your periods of dreaming and find most comfortable time fore wake up. For example, I sleep usually from 3 a m to 9 a m, and feel myself good.

It sounds like you are having nightmares which are waking you up in an anxious state. I get those sometimes, a lot less than I used to. Last night I had three strange dreams and three nightmares. The three nightmares made me wake up in a cold sweat with my chest pounding so hard. Often nightmares are linked to anxiety during the day. When I used to be at school, I used to get nightmares about running away from school, knowing that someone was chasing me to take me back. I used to wake up feeling extraordinarily sick when I had those nightmares.

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

Without medication, I wake up with a panic attack daily. And it has nothing to do with dreaming/nightmares or worrying about something happening that day. It was pretty annoying, because, even if I wouldn't have other panic attacks throughout the day from taking tests or waiting or something else, I'd ALWAYS have at least one panic attack a day because of always waking up with one. Doesn't start your day off too great, does it? Thankfully, Anafranil has not only lessened my OCD's severity, it has eliminated my panic attacks almost entirely. I'm still fascinated by this unexpected benefit of Anafranil. Klonopin and other benzos couldn't do for me what Anafranil does.

Anafranil never eased my OC symptoms, but that could be because mine are more obsessive-compulsive personality which they say is much more difficult to treat with medication.

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I'm a pure obsessional, and I have had severe OCD almost my whole life. Symptoms started at age 3. SSRIs did zilch for me. Anafranil is my miracle drug, and I strongly believe it's because it's a tricyclic and NOT an SSRI. I feel the serotonin hypothesis is relied on too heavily. I only wish I had discovered Anafranil years earlier, rather than first finding it in '08 when I was 21.