I know, not exactly the mind-blowing answer you had hoped to see, but the truth of the matter is anxiety attacks, and their symptoms, are rooted into a much deeper problem than simply hours of sleep you get.
Now that being said, any activity or object that can help you calm down and let your body lose some of its stress levels are great ideas.
The less revved up your body is, the less it will respond to additional stress factors.
So basically, sleep is not the end to the problem, but it can definitely help reduce the overwhelming symptoms you might be feeling during an attack.
Those reasons alone make it a high priority for those suffering for anxiety symptoms.
In a poll recently done by one mental health website, a question regarding how sleep benefited those suffering from anxiety attack symptoms was made.
The website asked participants to get more sleep than they typically would, and then asked them after several weeks what the impact on their symptoms were:
- Less than 21% did not notice a significant difference
- Less than 80% experienced a mild to greatly significantdifference
- Less than half of 1% experienced 100% relief
- However, not one participant said sleep made symptoms worse!