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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Time-related anxiety.

Horatius
Horatius

Does anyone else have issues with anxiety being particularly bad at specific times of the day? Every morning my anxiety and sense of dread gets very heightened, gets less pronounced around lunchtime, and then I feel great starting around 3:00pm.


I have no idea why it's like this, there are no particular triggers at work that I can identify.  So I'm a bit confused as to why this is the case.

Emerald0743
Emerald0743
Yes its funny at you mentioned it because I was just thinking the same thing yesterday. My anxiety is always really bad between 3am &7am. And gets better as the day goes on.
Anna1212
Anna1212
yes, i have the same thing about the same time schedule but i never feel great. i think it's usually worse in the morning. i think for me part of the morning anxiety is just anxiety about getting through the day.
Horatius
Horatius
Maybe that’s where my anxiety stems from, the thought of getting through a long workday.
arfie
arfie
Hello Horatio. Welcome to DS.

My anxiety runs distinct time cycles. Morning used to be the worst for me until I inserted a morning meditation routine. In my case, there was no doubt the anxiety stemmed from the challenges of my work day, as well as the domestic challenges that weave such wicked tendrils into my work day. It's allot to juggle. Getting up an hour before the household stirs where I can take a personal inventory and prepare my psychotherapy tools for the day made a huge diff in how I balance the stresses of my day.

Alas, anxiety can be as nebulous as a fog bank. That early morning anxiety shifted to other, less predictable times of the day. The good news is that the morning meditation breakthroughs made those sneak attacks easier to manage. It still sucks, but it hasn't sucked quite so hard since I found the anxiety management tools that work for me.

Gentle support while you find what works for you, Horatius. This condition can be managed by many different methods.
silverlight
silverlight
This is definitely true of me,although over the past few months i have found that the timing has jumped around a lot.Of late it'll begin around 3 PM ish and i can have a long drawn out panic attack until around 9 PM.For some reason it has been alot better over the past few days though,thank God.
Community LeaderMid
Mid
I had to add a gentle motion method to getting out of bed to help reduce the first 'anxiety' awareness.

Some days, when the schedule keeps filling up with unexpected challenges, I have to remind myself to stay calm.

Here's to finding what works for you to find the better balance.
Horatius
Horatius
Thanks everyone, interesting to see others having similar experience. Of course, since it’s 5:20pm now, I feel fine!
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