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A PANIC ATTACK while you’re SLEEPING

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Sleep panic attacks typically take one of two forms, both of which can be very frightening. In the first type, a person wakes up feeling like he or she is about to have a panic attack, or is already in the middle of one. The person’s heart will be beating very fast, and he or she may feel confused, disoriented, anxious, and disconnected from reality.
The other type happens when a person begins to consciously experience a panic attack while he or she is still asleep. This may have similar symptoms to a waking panic attack, or it may be accompanied by other symptoms like tooth grinding, head pain, and a feeling of pressure in the ears. In most cases, the person may not be aware of being asleep during the event, or may feel that he or she is struggling to wake up.

• Generally speaking, this disorder is treatable with a combination of self-care and medication. Types Sleep panic attacks typically take one of two forms, both of which can be very frightening.
• By slowly breathing in and out, a person may be able to relax his body and mind enough to sleep through the night. In the event that a sleep panic attack does occur during the night, the sufferer should try to remain as calm as possible.

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Are you a ‘Sleepwaking Eater’?

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Has this happened to you? You woke up one morning, and you found that there were wrappers of candy bar all over your kitchen . Incidentally, your stomach aches and you see that you had chocolate smudges all over your hands and face. Don’t you worry, you are not a True Chocolate vampire or anything like that. Your parents or your husband tells you that you are up all night long eating, but surprisingly, you don’t recall that you did so. Your parents or your husband seemed serious telling you that you actually ate all those chocolates. Is there an inside joke? Are you a Creature of the Night?
Probably not, In fact, the symptoms show that you probably have a night eating syndrome.
Night eating syndrome, also known as sleep-related eating, is considered by medical doctors as a parasomnia. It is not a frequent sleepwalking type. People suffering from this disorder have experiences of recurrent eating episodes while asleep, without actually being aware that they are actually doing it. This nocturnal eating syndrome might happen most of the time that it would show significant gain in your weight. Although this disorder can affect people in all ages and sexes, the sleep-related eating affects young women more than men.

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Are you aware of Your SLEEP APNEA?

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Regardless of type, an individual with sleep apnea is rarely aware of having difficulty breathing, even upon awakening. Sleep apnea is recognized as a problem by others witnessing the individual during episodes or is suspected because of its effects on the body (sequelae). Symptoms may be present for years (or even decades) without identification, during which time the sufferer may become conditioned to the daytime sleepiness and fatigue associated with significant levels of sleep disturbance.

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing, during sleep. Each pause in breathing, called an apnea, can last from a few seconds to minutes, and may occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Similarly, each abnormally low breathing event is called a hypopnea. Sleep apnea is diagnosed with an overnight sleep test called a polysomnogram, or “sleep study”.

There are three forms of sleep apnea: central (CSA), obstructive (OSA), and complex or mixed sleep apnea (i.e. a combination of central and obstructive) constituting 0.4%, 84% and 15% of cases respectively. In CSA, breathing is interrupted by a lack of respiratory effort; in OSA, breathing is interrupted by a physical block to airflow despite respiratory effort, and snoring is common.