Have you tried any kind of breathing therapy? You may be able to learn to control it and once you can do that it will go away. One word of warning: You will often read advice about "deep breathing exercises". Avoid these like the plague. Most of the people that give breathing instructions don't know anything about breathing and anxiety. They just ... more

Of course it would be great to get to the bottom of it and discover the cause of your panic attacks. But I can tell you it takes time and some people never find the answer. I never did. So do look for the cause but in the meantime I'm a big believer in dealing with the symptoms. As you described, panic attacks almost always come along with a racing... more

Hi, I can see a couple problems going on here. The first is easy to solve. You're setting yourself up for disturbed sleep by falling asleep the way you do on a chair or sofa. I take it this means before your bedtime. But whether it's before or not, what happens is you wake up in an hour or so and your brain doesn't know what's going on. Maybe you'v... more