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...
Hi All-
For about a month I have been having vivid dreams EVERY single night. They WON'T stop no matter what I do. It makes me extremely exhausted the next day no matter how many hours of sleep I get.
I do not eat/drink or anything before bed, don't watch anything scary or anything of that sort. I am on Lexapro but have been since January and the dreams just started regularly a month ago. I seriously mean every. single. night. My anxiety has been a lot better lately which is why the dreams are frustrating. Can anyone offer advice or what this could mean?
Thank you in advance!!
For about a month I have been having vivid dreams EVERY single night. They WON'T stop no matter what I do. It makes me extremely exhausted the next day no matter how many hours of sleep I get.
I do not eat/drink or anything before bed, don't watch anything scary or anything of that sort. I am on Lexapro but have been since January and the dreams just started regularly a month ago. I seriously mean every. single. night. My anxiety has been a lot better lately which is why the dreams are frustrating. Can anyone offer advice or what this could mean?
Thank you in advance!!
This is what I did.
I realized that all of my dreams every night were visual representations of what I was repressing into my mind. Do you suffer from extreme anxiety?
All of that worry and fear follows you even into REM sleep. Neuro- circuits in the brain are still activated and it releases stored emotion as it spill into your REM sleep state. The dreams aren't causing you to feel said emotion. Its vise versa. Your emotion are causing the dreams to happen.
Recommendation: I seriously seriously SERIOUSLY suggest picking up meditation. This is what cured me.
Regardless if you have religious affiliation or not, meditation trains your brains to focus on nothing, therefore causing better focus on all things afterwords.
I highly advise to start doing it every night before bed for 10-20 min.
Once you see the positive outcome, start doing it every morning as well. I PROMISE YOU. Things will start to change for the better.
Here where you can start to learn. Best wishes
http://zenhabits.net/meditation-for-beginners-20-practical-tips-for-quieting-the-mind/