Is this normal for Panic Disorder?

My freshman year of high school I started getting depressed and at least during physical activity like running I would get anxiety or panic attacks where it felt like my throat was closing up and I just felt scared. Now I’m a senior and I get those same attacks in the middle of classes or sometimes other places and while I still get depressed here and there it’s like this constant feeling of panic drowns it out. I started therapy a couple of months ago where they said what I’m dealing with is most likely panic disorder and it seems to help but I’m still questioning some things and right now I was curious if anyone here could help me out before my next appointment.

First of all I have noticed a weird pattern in my moods and attacks. A couple of weeks ago I had a sort of grace period for a week or two where I really didn’t have any issues and I felt great. No attacks and no depressive moods. But now this week the attacks started up again and I had 2-3. But what also came back was the constant feeling of panic and anxiety where it feels like if I’m not careful it will result in an attack. I’ve been also trying to think of what my triggers are and I know for sure school stress is one of them along with large, busy crowds and weirdly enough, feeling like my friends or family are upset at me. Any time I feel like I’ve upset someone I get a rush of anxiety and this past week when a friend snapped at me out of frustration it actually sent me into an attack. I hate that trigger the most because I feel so stupid over it cause it means I literally can not handle people being upset with me. Anyways this pattern I’ve notice has been through my whole high school experience. My sophomore year I thought things were getting so much better and then my Junior year it all just took a huge downfall. I can go a couple weeks or maybe a month if I’m lucky where I have very little if no issues at all and then they all come back, usually getting worse. Does anyone know if this is normal to have such a pattern in panic disorders and other situations?

My other thing is headaches. The past couple of weeks I have started to get headaches more than usual and I think I have a completely explainable reason for it but I’ve heard that they can come from mental health issues too. My completely explainable reason is my water intake. I’m absolutely terrible about drinking water and it has actually resulted in me, an 18 year old, getting kidney stones. Yah, every doctor who has talked to me about it is looking at me like how tf did you do that one. So I’ve been trying to drink more water to help pass the stones and to just be better about it in the first place but I’m still failing to do so. But yesterday when I was at a Target, it took me a minute but I realized I was experiencing some bad anxiety again. But at the same time I was getting a killer headache. Even now I have just a slight amount of pain and what almost feels like pressure in the front of my head. Again it’s probably the lack of water I drink but I was curious if it could be a mental health thing too.

Okay my last one I promise. Spacing out. I’ve noticed again this last week that I tend to space out sometimes. Sometimes I just get easily distracted but other times I’m just not aware of where I am. It sometimes goes to the point where I do the whole “Is this real? Am I actually alive? Am I really typing this post? Is this actually my house?” And so on. I did this as a kid too but now it’s weirder. I had a moment where I kept feeling myself trying to think but it was like my brain had shut off and no thoughts were coming up. It actually really freaked me out. So now I’m wondering if this was a mental health thing or my brain just being weird.

And I know I said that one was the last one but I realized another thing is sleep paralysis. I’ve had an extreme case here and there where I wake up and I can not move for the life of me. But now when I’m that kind of state where I am in and out of sleep I keep getting I guess small episodes of it. I wake up and it try to move my body but it feels impossible and almost kind of hurts when I try. I’ve heard of a trick where if you try to wiggle your fingers and toes that it usually helps to bring you out and it does but it still sucks every time. I remember hearing that this can also be related to mental health issues as well but I just wanted to confirm.

Sorry this post is long. I am going to talk to my therapist about this stuff but I thought that until next appointment I could see if anyone here had some answer until then.