Isolated sleep paralysis and fearful isolated sleep paralysis in outpatients with panic attacksb

Abstract

Isolated sleep paralysis (ISP) has received scant attention in clinical populations, and there has been little empirical consideration of the role of fear in ISP episodes. To facilitate research and clinical work in this area, the authors developed a reliable semistructured interview (the Fearful Isolated Sleep Paralysis Interview) to assess ISP and their proposed fearful ISP (FISP) episode criteria in 133 patients presenting for panic disorder treatment. Of these, 29.3% met lifetime ISP episode criteria, 20.3% met the authors’ lifetime FISP episode criteria, and 12.8% met their recurrent FISP criteria. Both ISP and FISP were associated with minority status and comorbidity. However, only FISP was significantly associated with posttraumatic stress disorder, body mass, anxiety sensitivity, and mood and anxiety disorder symptomatology.

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Sleep Paralysis in Brazilian Folklore and Other Cultures: A Brief Review

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Alien Abductions: A Case of Sleep Paralysis

“…SP is classified as a parasomnia and characterized by unusual behavior or abnormal physiological events that occur during the transition between sleep and wakefulness. SP episodes are generally accompanied by intense anxiety, inability to perform voluntary movements (even to scream or cry out for help), and, in some cases, fear of impending death (Sharpless et al, 2010;Jalal and Hinton, 2013). SP occurs most commonly in women (Pires et al, 2007;Sharpless and Barber, 2011) and when the body is in supine position (Chilcott et al, 1998;Sharpless etal., 2010).…”