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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Anxiety and sleep

Tinamb
Tinamb

Been going to bed feeling fine, but waking with symptoms in middle of night and not able to fall back asleep.

Restful
Restful
I have similar experiences when I am totally racked with anxiety. In fact, I’ve had panic attacks in the middle of the night. I think it’s your mind and your body’s way of telling you something needs to change.
GirlinCalif
GirlinCalif
I wake up in the middle of the night too. Or have nightmares. Usually when I am under some kind of stress in my life. Do you have some extra stress going on right now, or something you're worried about, etc? Journaling could help.
LisaLisa
LisaLisa
I get similar things. Nightmares, bad dreams, wetting, heart thumping, cold sweat etc. It happens more when I'm under stress at work or worried about things. Camomile tea sometimes helps, but not always, but I often find it difficult to get back to sleep afterwards. I hope you can find something to help,
arfie
arfie
Hello Tinamb. Welcome to DS.

I'm another who has dealt with this symptom ALLOT, but not so much these days. Knock wood. In my strictly personal herstory, I addressed this as a symptom of, "Normalizing." Normalizing is the coping mechanism by which I attempted to be, "Fine. And how are you?" despite the levels of chaos I inherited as a birthright. My case was extreme and it took allot of therapy work to get past ^it^.

I still get the symptom during high stress periods, but processing the emotions attached to the stress while ^it^ is still fresh keeps it from escalating to the repression of "Normalizing" with all its psychoquirks. Stress happens, buttttttaaaaa. . . May it never again be my "Norm." It is a gnarly symptom.

But that is me. . . Every case is unique.

Gentle support while you sort what ^it^ is for you. Welcome aboard.
Tinamb
Tinamb
Thanks for the feedback everyone. Every night is getting better.
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