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Tough Mornings

Seaglass25
Seaglass25

How do you get going in the mornings? I wake up with dread about getting up because in the mornings I tend to feel the worst. I try going back to sleep thinking that just maybe this time it will help, but it is like the movie “Groundhog’s Day” and it just starts over again. 


This is not my first anxiety rodeo but it has been about 6 years since I felt this bad. I am really trying to get back to “normal” and it is all just so frustrating.


Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

mtd
mtd
Mornings tend to be worse because of the excess cortisol our body produces to wake us up. It is a direct result of the anxiety state. If you can remember this in the morning it might
help you give that extra push to get past it.
arfie
arfie
Going back to sleep seldom works for me. If and/or when I do manage to actually get back to sleep, the sleep is anxious with weirder than weird dreams that make me even more anxious.

Shaking up my morning routine a bit often helps. Nothing radical. Maybe drinking my morning libation in a new spot. A different libation. Scratch my nose with my left hand instead of my right. A juicy travel fantasy. Whatever. Just enough to stir the proverbial post. The important part is to be gentle with myself and patient with the process.

Easy does it, Seaglass. Maybe you need some bigger change in your daily routine?
rmb
rmb
I feel the same way about changing up the morning routine, even if ever so slightly. I think it helps reset eventually, at least for me. I'm also big into doing exercise in the morning. Seems to help put some of that heightened energy to use in a productive way. I stopped bothering trying to go back to sleep and just try to make peace with those anxiety induced early mornings. More often than not the anxiety seems to take advantage of those early morning (3:00am) bathroom trips. I assume there's no point in fighting it and that surrender helps me relax and ride it out.
Seaglass25
Seaglass25
Thank you for your responses. I did read that bananas can help lower cortisol so I am starting to eat one before I go to bed to see if that helps:)
mtd
mtd
Thanks for the banana tip, my biggest problem is that morning push. I’ll try the bananas and we can compare notes.
Marian2
Marian2
I have also written about the mornings. It is like you know it is coming the night before.
Just a horrible feeling.
And I would go to bed at night saying, hum I am feeling okay maybe it will not happen tomorrow, yet it does.
Good Luck Seaglass, I hope it gets better quickly for you.
(And the banana tip is something I also haven't heard but will surely be trying)
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