Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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salvatop 06/22/2016

I wish there was something I could do for this adrenaline rush when I wake up in the mornings. It increases my level of anxiety and goes down through the rest of the day. Does anyone have the same experience??

skeerdcat 06/22/2016

When I wake up, before my eyes are even open, my mind already starts going. Like an adrenaline rush, ready to battle, whatever the day may bring.

I find that a lot of times, what sparks it is, a feeling I may get in my abdomen, or a thought that just so rapidly went through my mind. Leftover anxiety from the night before, I think wakes up before I do.

Mine, like yours, will go down throughout the morning, once I get up and occupy my mind with other things.

You are not alone.

rskb3 06/26/2016

I know what you mean. When I wake up I feel a lot of adrenaline in my system. It is hard to come down from that. It eventually does get better throughout the day but it makes me not want to go to bed at night because I know I am going to wake up feeling like crap because of all the adrenaline.

Ps139mom 06/29/2016

I wake up every morning with such a rush that my whole body is shaking. Sometimes it's manageable within a little time other times I have to take Xanax just so I can breathe. I HATE this feeling also because it makes me feel so exhausted. Nobody seems to get it. I hear just take a few breathes. Yeah sorry not helping. Evenings are tolerable most times. I think the overwhelming idea of dealing with the "what ifs" that could happen that day is what plagues my mind in the morning. I wish I could just take things as they come. I feel for you. I really do.

Dougiefresh 07/02/2016

I wake up not in total adrenaline mode but my mind is restless. I take an ativan and in 10 mins im good

salvatop 07/02/2016

I used to take Xanax, but have been benzo free since the beginning of April. I believe that much of my adrenaline rush in the mornings is due to Xanax withdrawal, specifically post acute withdrawal which they say peaks at 3 to 6 months after abstinence and can last up to 2 years!!

rskb3 07/04/2016

Salvatop- It could be the withdrawals for you you or it could just be anxiety because a lot of us here have this issue. If you do find a way to stop the adrenaline in the morning please let us know I hate feeling that way.

salvatop 07/04/2016

rskb3....I have asked my doctor and he says there is no medications that address adrenaline. He says it's the "flight or fight" from the anxiety. Time is the best remedy.

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