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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tropicalmom 02/12/2009

Is morning anxiety a common thing? I am anxious in the morning no matter what...if i have nothing to do, something scary to do, something very enjoyabe to do. It is a baseline feeling of anxiety always accompanied by cold hands and cold feet. It usually leaves by late morning. When I was young, my mom would yell at us kids in the morning and this caused me to be nauseous and I couldn't eat in the morning before school and if I did I would often throw up. I don't do that anymore! I take 10 mg of sinequan at bedtime to sleep. It has helped a little with my morning anxiety. Before sinequan, if I was on vacation somewhere, I could not eat breakfast. That has stopped. When I take my bp in the early morning anxiety times, it is always elevated in the 140/80-145/85 range. Does anyone exerience this problem and what do you do about it? It is not a conscious thing. It just happens.

deleted_user 02/12/2009

home is supposed to be very nurturing, calm, peaceful and beautiful - all of the time. use your creativity to make a morning lifestyle that is really nurturing and inviting for you in your first few hours after waking up. the longer the new patterns are reinforced, the sooner the old feelings of anxiousness will fade.

in our modern, busy western culture, we are trained to rush ourselves in the morning and throughout the day. we can unlearn all of that though and make our days much more fluid and relaxed and joyful if we put our minds to it, use some creativity, and add things that others are doing to make their lives better.

deleted_user 02/12/2009

that is the old faithful I am used too.

deleted_user 02/12/2009

the same thing happens to me. i wake up with a heart rate of 96 to 120. later in the morning i feel better. i have a thyroid problem so maybe that is why it happens to me but i am not sure. once the heart starts pounding it is hard for me not to get anxiuos about it. eating something usually helps a little for me.

deleted_user 02/12/2009

I have been this way my entire life. I can remember being in first grade and feeling sick and nervous. Now at 53 I still can't eat in the morning and the anxiety is horrible. I don't plan to do anything early anymore. All plans are in the afternoon. What do you take the sinequan for? Does it help with migraines? I think I read they use it for that.

deleted_user 02/12/2009

That happens to me as well. I am anxious in the morning about the things I need to do later that day. Most of the time, I end up not doing anything because I get so overwhelm just thinking about it.

Barr62 02/12/2009

Tropical are you cheating? by drinking Caffien Coffee Hmmm?..lol that would do it are you thickheaded like me ? and drink it anyway? like i do?
but yes AM Anxiety is common.. if i dont get a good nights sleep? i a wake Anxious .. you know what i end up doing for it around 3 and 5 Am ? i run the Vacuum!! yes i do i kid you not !! or i come on here and Post or i log in my Journal!! and type until my fingeres are sore ect: but i see lot of new medications or old ones i never read about on here well i hope you find your reply's very helpful Dear

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