Anyone else have attacks/episodes?

I'm bipolar II with anxiety, ocd, and ptsd. I've started having these attacks and I don't know what they are. I'll be relaxing watching tv and I'll start to feel unsettled like restless inside. Then it's like a seizure.. immense pain-emotional and physical, I feel my muscles tense up till I'm in a ball and they contract and I can't yell only whisper for help. I feel so over whelmed and devastated like a parent just died, a strong feeling of doom and pain, lots of pain. I'm overcome for a few minutes and then it passes. Doesn't happen often but very distressing to say the least. I'd love to have a name for it. Anyone? No sweating like a panic attack and I'm aware so I don't think it's a seizure.

My pdoc told me to take a clonazepam before bed cuz I kept waking up with panic attacks through out the night. I didn't have sweating but they were definitely panic attacks. I'm sorry you feel this way, hope it passes soon.

Thanks, I take seroquel before bed so I don't wake up. I was thinking panic attack but the description is racing heart, sweating, and sounds uncomfortable. Mine attacks are crippling, can't walk, can't yell, can't move, out of my control completely. My husband has been close to calling 911.. he just came into the room and crying/moaning twitching..

Panic and anxiety attacks can manifest themselves in all kinds of different ways.

Thanks, that's true, I wish I could find someone else who experienced it. Makes me feel even more crazy than I thought I was lol

Did you start/stop any meds? Sometimes akathisia can be severe.

Sounds like a panic attack to me... maybe ask your therapist or pdoc or even regular doctor?

My panic attacks I can still talk and move but I do feel exactly what you described feelings. I also usually experience derealization.

Hope you get it figured out...

These sound like severe panic attacks. I get the fits of restlessness but I don't have the crushing wave attacks with them. I do get the crushing wave attacks when I'm in a severe depressive episode. For me, such episodes are caused by severe emotional trauma or missing my anti-psychotics. I will get waves of physical pain that lock me up and I cry uncontrollably. The pain happens at more or less regular intervals until the wave has passed. There isn't a set time of duration for the attack, usually, it sputters out within an hour but I've had days where multiple attacks last from morning until night.

I deal with anxiety and panic also .. I do often get the overwhelming doom and gloom and the inability to move or breathe, I shake but cant control it. Sometimes its a min or so and then other times its 5-10 mins of pure hell.. I am also unable to do more than whisper if even that, So i hear what your saying... I have yet to find a way to stop it.. even my T and Pdoc dont have much to offer except to explain that a very small % of people go through this.

I had a full heart work up and MRI of my brain to make sure it wasnt anything physical , everything came back more of less " normal" so its just something I have to deal with. sucks

Its horrible. Sorry you suffer from this shyt.

It does sound like anxiety/panic, manifesting in a way different than the usually described fashion. We can get into fight, flight and/or freeze.
I have seen people experiencing the "freeze" by contracting into a ball, acting much like you've described.

I am sorry you suffer with these episodes.
I hope you can eventually find a way to avoid them or disrupt them.

WC