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...
I'm having anxiety at night, and only at night time. Before bed I just get really nervous, shaky, and have PALPITATIONS. Which I looked up and said can be caused by stress which I have loads of. It makes me want to go to the ER but the doctor says I'm fine. It's a viscous never-ending cycle every night. You think it's gone for good sometimes, after a bad panic attack. But it always seems to get worse. Always...
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Once again I've had a fever today. I'm not going to the hospital because that's a huge waste of time but I did schedule a dr appointment for Wednesday afternoon.
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...and another day closer to Fall! Tra la la la la...Next month there is a Sasquatch Festival in my city! We're excited to go and get our picture taken with Bigfoot. Really!Have a great day, everyone -
Welcome Im new here too. My anxiety builds through the day and slowwwwwly ends late at night. So we are different but probably not that much. The differences are our individual life experiences over time, but we react to it in a similar way. Since I dont know how long you have been having the anxiety (mine is a lifelong thing) I just want to tell you its something you can work at and make much better! The tools are many, and I cant pretend to know which might help you but I did watch this today and it really made an impression on me. https://youtu.be/rxhC81AwtEA
Its a lady who does the Therapy In A Nutshell on YouTube. But this was not a therapy video it was from something sad that happened to her today. It is a good way to see how we can accept and embrace and process feelings .
in order to move on. And this is real time stuff which makes it even more powerful to me. Even the experts have bad days but have tools to help. I hope it helps you like it helped me. Hang in there you are far from alone!
Alan
What helps me is too call out and write bouts of anxiety.
This helps to identify and rationalize the symptoms.
I think once you do that, you gain control.
Also, if you have movies, music, or a favorite TV show to watch to try to distract and calm yourself with.
Music really calms me and I hope it could calm you.
I hope these can help!!!
You got this!!! Keep positive!!!
When I first started taking conscious inventory of my anxiety, it always **seemed** worse at night. Decades later, through 20/20 hindsight glasses, I grow ever more convinced it was my awareness which was greater at night, not the anxiety, itself. During the day I kept my denial so tight that my awareness of the ever-present anxiety symptoms was negligible. At night, when I let my guard down in preparation for sleep, my denial weakened and the symptoms gathered like thunderheads on the horizon.
These days I take my anxiety inventory in the morning and ply anxiety management tools as the day progresses. Maintenance takes far less out of my day than the exhaustion of denial and/or sleep deprivation. I'm sleeping well most nights as a result.
But that is me and every case is unique.
Gentle support while you figure your own case. Welcome aboard.
I hadn't thought of it that way. The night is quieter... more chances for anxious thoughts to creep in my brain. Less busy at night, less distractions = probably more anxiety.
Thank you... for that eye opening statement. I will remember that.
Example, mine is eat dinner, clean up kitchen, watch a bit of tv, take a shower, let the dogs out, read a book, put on music, and go to sleep. Same schedule every night. And by the time my shower is done I am ready to sleep.