Cause for panic attacks?

[Braylie]

I'm curious to get others opionons as something my dad said to me is maybe making a little sense.

He told me, not the reason that I have panic attacks, but the reason I get really bad ones, is because I don't do anything. As in my anxiety is so bad I'm scared to get up half the time. Bascially the way he's explained it was, your heart needs a workout and if you're not up and moving all that built up adrenaline has got to come out sometime. My heart rate gets pretty high with my attacks. I haven't had a bad one in a while, but I had been somewhat normal, going out and doing things, playing in the yard with my kids just whatever. Since this last round of anxiety has made my depression spiral out of control, I lay around all day and night and now my bad attacks have come back. Maybe like built up adrenaline? Always happens right after I fall asleep too.

Does that make sense to anyone? Lol

[Aspetta]

Hello. No. It does not make sense. The feeling comes and goes. Maybe medication and therapy can help. It helped me.

[Braylie in reply to Aspetta]

No this is different from my regular anxiety, I am on medication. I keep waking up to panic attacks but only seems to be when I go through a bad anxiety spell where I'm super inactive

[Aspetta in reply to Braylie]

I would talk with your dr. That is what I did. I have both panic and anxiety. I take lexapro, busparone and two blood pressure medicines.

[Braylie in reply to Aspetta]

See I take busparone too and I dont feel like its helping at all...BUT it's the first medicine I've tried and its only been about 4 weeks so not sure. Meeting with her Wednesday so we'll see how thay goes

[Aspetta in reply to Braylie]

Busparone takes awhile. I am on 60 mg a day. But that was added after I began taking lexapro. The combination has helped me.

[Braylie in reply to Aspetta]

I'm only on 10 a day, don't think it's enough. Wednesday cant come fast enough lol

[Aspetta in reply to Braylie]

That is a beginning!! That is great! Keep on keepin' on girl!!! It will take sometimes a lot of trials and errors before you find out what works for you. Please keep your appointment this Wednesday. I want to find out what happened!!

[Mrspjsmom]

It doesn't makes sense to me. I wake up in the midst of a panic attack. Maybe the reason what your Dad said to you makes some sense is because when you're playing with your kids you're concentrating on them. Try not to be too hard on yourself. These are difficult times and even people who don't have mental health issues are having problems. HUGS and BLESSINGS!

[Braylie in reply to Mrspjsmom]

You wake up to them too? I've had a hard time finding any information on that. Trying to understand it

[Mrspjsmom in reply to Braylie]

I have nightmares. Don't always remember them but wake up reacting to then. Has been worse during the pandemic. My husband and daughter are nurses and my son is a firefighter paramedic. Husband has underlying conditions. Son has asthma and my daughter has an autoimmune disorder. To top it off my brother works in the ER too and had a triple bypass just over two years ago. My therapist thinks the added stress has caused the nightmares and bad panic attacks. When I am awake believe it or not I am the calm supportive one who takes care of everyone lol

[Braylie]

Well I'm asking because if you do a quick google search it will tell you anxiety is helped by exercising to get rid of excess adrenaline, and every dr I've ever talked to says exercise helps

[Lm92]

Yes, it actually does make sense. Anxiety is caused by your brain telling your body you're in danger (fight or flight mode) which causes a large amount of adrenalin to be dumped into your blood stream thus resulting in a panic and/or anxiety attack.

I don't exercise anywhere near the way I should because of depression, but I can go back and look in my daily journals I've kept for the past 25 years and clearly see that when I'm exercising or taking walks, that my anxiety levels are lower than any other times.

There's some excellent low key workouts on YouTube. Some you can even do in bed when you don't want to move. I know I feel better when I make myself do it. Your Dad might just be smarter than you think.

[Braylie in reply to Lm92]

Thank you for sharing! I need to get out and do something, anything. My anxiety is so bad its just hard but I think I'll feel better in the long run. Currently up because I made myself stay up all day and not nap, but woke up to one 15 minutes after I fell asleep 😑

[Pinkyandthebrain]

Makes complete sense to me, I definitely notice that my anxiety is much more manageable during periods when I’m exercising more regularly!

It sounds like your dad really wants to help you, which is so lovely.

[Jessicawarriner]

My anxiety was so bad till I started meds but give the medication time of dose work just needs a settling in time mine is giving me headaches at the moment and like pins and needles in my head not good but all the time I ask the gp all they say is wait it out and then it may go I hope so it’s not nice just the medication is working and I would rather have this pain than the anxiety

[Hidden]

Does make some sense but feel it's a little too simplistic, don't think adrenaline behaves like that

However, the mind is a curious thing and long periods of inactivity will cause subconscious thoughts and feelings to escalate and panic will surely follow

When we are depressed our control disappeared forcing ourselves out of bed to engage in something starts to regain that control

Of course it feels impossibly difficult to do but if we want to really live, we must try. Take care

[politeplants]

I really like that idea, I’ve never thought about it that way before. I do feel a lot better on the days where i’m moving around. so whether it’s truly the cause or not i’d like the think about it that way.