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Does anyone know of or use any herbs or natural remedies for anxiety, nerves and sleep?
I seem to be having to take so much stuff to be able to sleep at night that I feel sluggish during the day and I also notice I have been having a lot of anxiety lately due to job stress ( financial) worry about my younger brother (cancer) and just the fallout from my history of abuse.
I currently take 3 Tylenol pm (yes I know that is a lot) and a melatonin and sometimes even a soma to sleep through the night. If I am lucky, I won't be woken up by nightmares that leave me in cold sweats. Used to be about prior abusers and childhood issues, but lately they have been the repetitive ones about my Mom and her death. I don't want to trigger anyone with the gory details of the two dreams I have of losing her as they are so graphic in my mind, and not how she died, which does not make sense, but I feel they may be due to not getting closure with saying goodbye to her and not feeling like I did enough for her. I was her caretaker along with my dad, but with work, being married and feeling so overwhelmed, I just feel like I failed her somehow?
Anyway, any help is appreciated...
I seem to be having to take so much stuff to be able to sleep at night that I feel sluggish during the day and I also notice I have been having a lot of anxiety lately due to job stress ( financial) worry about my younger brother (cancer) and just the fallout from my history of abuse.
I currently take 3 Tylenol pm (yes I know that is a lot) and a melatonin and sometimes even a soma to sleep through the night. If I am lucky, I won't be woken up by nightmares that leave me in cold sweats. Used to be about prior abusers and childhood issues, but lately they have been the repetitive ones about my Mom and her death. I don't want to trigger anyone with the gory details of the two dreams I have of losing her as they are so graphic in my mind, and not how she died, which does not make sense, but I feel they may be due to not getting closure with saying goodbye to her and not feeling like I did enough for her. I was her caretaker along with my dad, but with work, being married and feeling so overwhelmed, I just feel like I failed her somehow?
Anyway, any help is appreciated...
Those are the ingredients in a herbal relaxation preparation I took that worked a treat. Valerian and Skullcap are also available as teas, but it's a matter of taste - if you can't drink the tea, look for them in herbal sleep tablet form instead.
Be careful if you are on medication already, and check with a doc first that the herbs won't react badly with it. Even though they are herbs, it can happen. Better safe than sorry!
Hope this helps xxx
If you find you have dreamless sleep, that's something to make note of and talk to your psychiatrist about.
I drink a cup of green tea in the evening. I also do 6, 8 breathing for a few minutes while I sip my tea. That's where you count to 6 while you breathe in then count to 8 when you breathe out.
I tried St. John's wart and it didn't help at all.
Just be aware that if you are taking an anti-depressant, you cannot take things like 5HTP, & St. John's wart. And, as Rockin said, check w/your dr.
The Somas are for the spasms in my neck, the Dr thought they would help with migraines but I don't really notice them helping for that so I take them at night for sleep.
I will check with him next week as my insurance is supposed to kick in then. Already paid but you know how that goes. Not sure what this new insurance will or will not cover. Also hope to find a therapist that is not in the same town and is a bit more specialized in trauma or abuse.