Can you watch TV, until you get really sleepy? that and some tea or warm milk? Personally I find TV very relaxing. Just something mindless like HGTV or something like that.

That does help kind of. I just feel so wigged out.

I think you've got to do your best to try to relax as much as you can and try to get your mind off of the anxiety and start telling yourself it's just a thought and I'm okay. If you need to take a xanax! It will sure help you sleep and get a little calmer. Tell yourself positive things about yourself and tell yourself the thoughts that are causing this anxiety are all a bunch of lies.Having anxiety is a tough thing to deal with. Theres no sugar coating it! It's all about our thinking. When we start listening to the bad thoughts and start believing them then we get a bad reaction that causes fear to rear it's evil head and then the anxiety hit's. All this starts with a thought. We have gotten ourselves in to a habit of thinking bad thoughts that are not true but affect us in a bad way and we talk ourselves in to believing these thought's! Start challenging thse thoughts and practice replacing these thoughts with true positive thoughts about yourself. I hope you relax and get some sleep tonight. If you need to take a xanax and still practice your truthful thinking and other positive coping techniques. Good lick and have a quiet peaceful night. OO,Garrett

Me! I have had this problem for my entire life. For me personally, it is about my fear of death. I feel like at night, the world shuts down, and I feel alone and scared. The darkness reminds me of death and I just don't feel as alive as I do during the day with the sun shining and the people chatting and all of that. I usually just end up staying up too late and watching TV until the sun is almost up. As soon as the first glimmer of sunlight appears, I can sleep like a baby. I wish I had some advice to give you, but this is on area of anxiety that I am sort of stuck on. At least you know you aren't alone. Hugs.

I have struggled with this too. Especially when I'm alone. Watching television does help most of the time, but I don't want to get too dependent on it. I feel very vulnerable sleeping when I'm alone so I usually schedule a line up of movies until 5-6:30am (depending on the time of year) when it gets light out. It's not a good thing to do, but it's the only way I can manage when I'm alone, or else I won't sleep at all. Once the sun starts to come up, I can sleep better. I have an herbal, lavender scented heating pad (its one of the ones that you freeze, and then microwave, not an electric one) and that seems to really calm me down, so sometimes I'll use it to help me sleep. Other than that, I usually just look for distractions or something to do so I'm not worrying as much.

I have opposite problem. I get to sleep at night. I could not before but ElavilI take puts me to bad every time now. I have difficulties to live day till the evening because of high anxiety and depression. About every antidepresant I took was effective to put me to sleep after I took Elavil for a while but before I took it I had to use Diazepam, Ativan or something like that in big dose to go to sleep. Azaleptin was puting me to sleep for couple of dys and than it ended.
As I say, about every antidepresant was effective in that: Lexapro, Paxil (not as good but worked), Agomelatine, Trazodon (Trittico), Escitalopram. Celexa, Citalopram did not put me to sleep. I do not know whether it was because I took it before Elavil or because it can not put you to sleep in general. I was too agitated before I took Elavil, may be that was the reason. I do not take together Elavil and other antidepresant because it can kill you. I took for a while one antidepresant. Than I stopped taking it and started other antidepresant and so on. Now I am back to Elavil because it make my day the most tolerable. Other antidepresants did not make my day tolerable.

hi i think allot of us get anxious etc at night,i think its because we lay down and then the floodgates open to all the stresses of the day and things that have made us anxious etc and your mind just goes over and over things when i go to bed i leave the telly on quietly so i can just hear it i found that playing a 3 in a row game on my ds helps allot its not to hard and you get sleepy very quickly and your mind dosent wander of so you relax quicker, my husband has come to bed many times and found the stick thingy pointing at the screen and my game over and me asleep ;0)

i know how you feel cause i used to be able to sleep during the night and i would be fine, but now that our house go broken into i fine myself beening more nevous during the night and in the day time i am okay.....like people say here tried to watch t.v see if that helps or also too read a book??? i will pray that u feel better....anything i could help u with let me know

at night we lose much of the external cues that distract us and night also can bring on a alteres sense of reality - not good for those of us already in an altered state

When I am out of an anxiety place the night is cozy and peaceful. When my anxiety is high it can seem threatening