DM (83) was diagnosed with Parkinson’s last year but unfortunately just a few months later my beloved dad - her husband of nearly 60 years - was admitted to hospital as an emergency and passed away early this year (still in hospital). So it’s been a year of turmoil - mum coming to terms with PD (she hasn’t) and losing my dad. She is of course deeply grieving. We had to get her a full time live in carer as she couldn’t cope. She is having the most horrendous panic attacks, which are getting worse not better. Well we think they are panic attacks/anxiety and that’s my question. The sensation feels like a deeply uncomfortable feeling in her body (especially in her privates) and spreads throughout her body. They mostly just happens without a trigger. Anxiety makes it worse. Happens mostly daily and lasts from an hour to a few hours. Often at night too keeping her awake for hours (she won’t sleep in a bed anymore choosing to sleep in a reclining armchair). She says when she’s having them she feels “so ill” or “I feel like I’m dying”. My question is does this sound like anxiety/panic attacks or some kind of awful PD symptom or maybe both? Psychiatrist thinks it’s grief, GP thinks it’s anxiety and we don’t know what the PD team thinks yet (seeing them soon).