After talking quickly with my pdoc about what happened on my other thread, I got to thinking about this other thing that happens to me. Luckily, this doesn't happen very often, but I've always contributed this to anxiety. Does that sound right? I don't think it's a panic attack per se. What I know and have seen regarding panic attacks, this doesn't really fit that. See what you guys think. I want to get to the bottom of this too!

Every once in awhile this intense fear floods over me. It's weird because every single time I become convinced I am going to die. Now it's not like a bookcase panic attack where a person will think they are dying of something medical. This is more of an intense fear that some one is going to kill me and I won't live through the night.

The first time, I was a teenager and (for some strange reason) couldn't shake this fear that there was something/someone in my room waiting to kill me. It basically felt like an axe murderer was in the corner waiting for me to fall asleep. Another time, I was painting someone's house (in the middle of the night) when all of a sudden I got this intense fear (again) that I was not going to live through the night. This time it was that the person whose house I was painting, her (soon-to-be) ex-husband was coming over to blow the house up in order to make sure she was left with nothing. Freaked me out so bad that I had to leave and drive across the street to a parking lot to wait for this fear to subside. And most recently (June), this same type of fear again come over me. This time I couldn't shake the feeling that someone was going to break into my apartment that night and (again!) kill me.

These episodes seem to last 15-30 minutes each. Now these don't sound like any kind of panic attack I've ever read about. I just can't imagine that they aren't connected to my anxiety. I don't have a fear of death, so that doesn't seem to be what these are about. What do you guys think? Mainly an anxiety issue, or possibly something more/worse?

I want to get to the bottom of this just like my other thread. Any insight or suggestions would be great!