Panic attacks/night terrors in young children?

Does anyone else's toddlers/small children have panic attacks or night terrors? My son is two, and will occasionally have full blown panic attacks randomly in the middle of the night. Like, not just waking up and being upset, or just crying about a bad dream. I mean fully screaming, crying, kicking and punching, and trying his damndest to get away from us. He screams so hard that he chokes himself. These episodes don't happen super often, but it's scary when they do. He literally acts like he's fighting for his life. I can sometimes talk him down, but I usually just have to sit next to him and wait for him to come back to himself naturally. It can be up to an hour of pure panic sometimes. This has been happening since he was a few months old. Does anyone else experience this? Advice??

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My daughter has these episodes, and I grab her, giving her hugs and kisses, telling her it's okay. I'm here and that I love her, and she screams til she is red in the face, screaming and choking on her cries, coughing upset. I went to her pediatrician, and they said it's normal behavior for night terror, but I don't know what else to do

@Angela My son also gets these. Just an FYI if they are in fact night terrors speaking to her, touching her or holding her is going to make it worse. Since they are not in a conscious state. My step son and my son both experienced them. You’re basically just supposed to sit close and let them ride it out. They don’t remember them either which is comforting!

My son also gets these. Not much advice though as we haven’t found much that works. As I stated above- my step son also experienced these. So between both of them and research all I know is that you shouldn’t try to talk to them or touch them as it frightens them more and can make the night terror more intense of last longer.

Hi @Jaymie i had experience this when my boy was 6-7months.. exact same situation happens to me, i can understand thats too scary. Now my boy is 2year old and he still have these terrors sometimes.. but i noticed one thing when you pray over your lil one before they are going to sleep.. i just put hand on his head and pray to Jesus Christ to protect him through night.. believe me these terror reduced from 3nights per week to 1 night per month… in short just do prayer over your childern it do wonders..🙏🏾😇ThankyouLord😇

My lo has had these since about 13 months old. Google says they can't start that young but... whelp. If he reaches for us we pick him up. If not, we just pat his back and leave him in his crib. (He'd fight us so hard it was dangerous to try to hold him.) It's awful, but he doesn't seem to remember and, from what I've read, it's all textbook night terrors. I've started talking to him about seeing stories when he sleeps. I don't think he understands, but it makes *me* feel better.

My daughter has had these episodes a couple times but noticed she was never conscious during them and us interacting made it worse so we would sit by and ride it out. When it was over, we comforted her and put her back down once she was calm. She hasn’t had an episode in months but will occasionally cry from a bad dream. My husband tends to get these episodes too but only when he’s dehydrated so we just make sure she has plenty of water nearby

My two year old gets them as well. He will scream and tense up but I can’t calm him down so I just stay close to him and speak softly once he is calm.

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