Having a small attack

Right now in the middle of the night. Mostly anxious, it woke me up. I turned on my bedside light, it has a warm color that I find soothing, and is not so bright. It's more relaxing than the lights being off. Don't remember exactly what I was dreaming about, but I had only one choice yet somehow I had to choose from among multiple things despite their only being one choice available and visible to me.

My rib/sternum are bothering me. It tends to do that because it shifts or something when my shoulder pops, which tends to happen because of a motion with it I tend to make when anxious. I can make it happen on purpose by rotating my shoulder in a certain way. It makes a couple of my upper left ribs sore on the front of my chest. And my body's reaction to the feeling (other than anxiety) is to tend to move the shoulder around in just the way that causes the feeling in the first place. Upper left front of the chest is not exactly a good place for soreness in someone with anxiety attacks already, since it's said an anxiety attack can make you feel like you are having a heart attack. If I pay attention to the feeling I can tell it's at rib level and not inside my chest at heart level, and of course it's something I can consciously cause with shoulder movement. However anxiety attacks are not the most logical of moments.

Writing posts while having the anxiety attacks helps distract me from the anxiety, helping with the attacks. I should take some Alleve (that generally seems to help with the ribs/sternum) and try to relax enough to fall back to sleep.