Common, and again, distract your thought pattern. You may have to keep getting up, walking around, writing or doodling, drinking/sipping liquid until your hydration level balances (with anxiety, you can dehydrate fast because your body is constantly in fight/flight mode), and know you're alive and breathing. It is necessary to withdraw from a drug treatment plan slowly and naturally to help your body and brain recover a natural balance before starting a new drug treatment. Best wishes, you are not alone.

That's exactly what my anxiety feels like. God it is so awful. Take a walk or read a book. Try to get out of your own head.

it is one of the flavors of my anxiety. my mind insists in like accessing everything there is in the brain. what helps me is trying my best to focus on something else. talk to somebody, sit in the porch.

Yes it is a horrible feeling. The worst is at night,especially if you know the next day you are going to have to overcome some of your fears...forget it,I would probably get an hours worth of sleep because would just be constantly worrying. I started taking Zzzquil, which helps,but I just don't want to have to depend on that being the only thing that helps.

I feel the same way. We all understand. I take xanax too, and it helps. How are you feeling now

Have you tried keeping a notebook next to bed, to write down the thoughts and get them from your brain to paper? That has helped me get rest.

I write everything down when I wake in the am because it starts when I wake up. I start out asking myself how I will feel today. If I can't feel an emotion I start to panic and it lasts all day.

I often have great difficulty going to sleep and staying asleep. I worry about did I turn off the stove, lock the door, etc. I also tend to run through my head list after list of what I didn't do or what I need to do. I also keep a notebook by my bed and that helps with the list issues but when I can't go to sleep I have started listening soft classical music, or nature sounds, or white noise (you can actually download an album of ";white" noise - which includes different colors - which are just different types of ambient static, and sometimes I listen to old radio shows on XM radio. I listen with my earbuds so it shuts out all other noises. If you don't want to use earbuds there are inexpensive blue tooth speakers on Amazon. I often use my 10$ shower speaker all over the house because I can suction cup it to Windows, the oven door or the glass in my headboard. Just a thought!

@beachshore It's very scary not being able to feel! When I've tried meditation or the tapping solution, it's made me feel worse because there was no way to connect w/ what was happening. It was a constant reminder I couldn't be present no matter how hard I tried. @ least that's definitely how it felt.

Waking up at 3am and thoughts won't stop and you have to be at work at 7
Pure hell

Hugabus, if first thought is negative when you wake replace it with a thought about what you hear, see, taste, smell or feel with no judgement. Do this with every negative thought. I just read an article about this tonight and used it during the last 2 hours and I am
Feeling a little relief. We need to trick the subconscious and get it thinking positive because it will follow the positive thought we replace it with. This article was from an MD.