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Morning anxiety

ar_row
ar_row

Does anyone else feel like this?  I wake up to high anxiety.  The only thing that slows it down is to get up,  even though I need to rest.  After a while,  depression takes over. I've never been able to solve this. 


 


Greenteam
Greenteam
I don't know enough about anxiety to be more than your average joe. I understand it's a very troubling feeling to cope with. In my case when I wake up with these kinds of feelings I attribute it to something that is unfinished, something I've been putting off, a problem with a friend. One way to cope may be to throw yourself into something that occupies your thoughts. Give you something to focus on besides that knot in your stomach. Like I said I'm just your average Joe. I don't let things bother me for to long. Good, bad, right, or wrong I don't let things fester, but then again that's just me.
ar_row
ar_row
Yeah, I have unfinished business, but most of it needs to be processed in therapy, which I don't have at the moment. Your right about getting into something. A guy always feels better when he is ' on to something ".
rajik
rajik
I have morning anxiety too. Never used to have it before my husband passed away. The thought of whole day without him - the emptiness is so hard to take. I keep telling myself I have so much to be grateful for. Why am I in so much pain. But does not help. I want to be alive again- to feel joy again. Life is precious. It can be taken away in a second.
MayaRose
MayaRose
I have really bad shakes all the time and sometimes when I wake up in the morning it feels and looks like I'm having a seizure. It's part of my anxiety and stuff. Just thought it might be good to know you aren't alone?
Seamus
Seamus
I'm doing better now. Last year was Horrific at night.

I have severe sleep apnea. I still don't sleep well. But their were weeks I had less than 12 hours of sleep in 7 days. I was stressed I would have a heart attack or stroke any minute.

My anxiety would get worse after 5pm knowing I would stop breathing over and over. I'ld jump up after falling asleep for only two minutes. Then i'ld have a panic attack. Walk the streets up to a cpl hours.

That's when I wished this site had a chat, for people that were up late or all night. Drove me crazy to be awake night after night.

This year, I'm better... I have a CPAP machine. But I can't really sleep with it. But I try....