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Afraid to sleep for fear of not waking up

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amelia43385
amelia43385

Hey all,

Right now, most of my anxiety is tolerable. I can handle dealing with it throughout the day, as unpleasant as it is. But it doesn't keep me up at night. What keeps me up at night is the horrible fear of SUNDS or a heart problem or hemorrhagic pancreatitis occurring in my sleep where I won't wake up the next morning. I am only 20 years old and fairly healthy (out of shape, but not a normal weight, no chronic illnesses that I know of) but I've scared myself sick reading about it occurring in young people. Is there any way to combat this? I am seeing someone Wednesday and I can't wait to address this and hopefully get some coping strategies for it, but that's still 5 times I have to go to bed between now and then. Anyone dealt with this before and overcome it? This has got to be the worst anxiety related thing I have ever experienced. I feel so powerless.

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  • jane75220
    jane75220 amelia43385

    Posted

    I went through this. I finally decided that I was going to overcome it and just toldmysself each night when I went to bed, I am going to wake up fine in the morning. It will be alright in the end.

    It worked. I also had a mug of hot milk which helped me as well.

    Why do you think of haemorrhagic pancreatitis I wonder?

    • amelia43385
      amelia43385 jane75220

      Posted

      Thsnks! I try to just tell myself to go to sleep but it doesn't always work. I'll keep trying though! It's in my head because I read about tiny somewhere of course when trying to reassure myself nothing was wrong with me that could cause it...I've got to stay off the internet!

  • borderriever
    borderriever amelia43385

    Posted

    When it comes to your Anxiety Amelia you need to understand the fears you have are so very irrational. When I was young I was the same I would be wathing the weeks going by as the months also seemed to eave me behind.you see my fears were ruling my life and those fears were worse than the death I was frightened of.

    I am now in my 66th Year and in August I will be 67 years old. I have now had a very full life and now I look upon my early years as a waste because of my fears of the final journey.

    We can do nothing to stop our deaths, when it happens, we have to go. We cannot really negotiate any more time we are called we go.

    My main negotiation is I go in my sleep without pain, I have suffered from a Chronic Disability for near on forty years and I am tired of it all sleep sounds a good way to depart.

    Enjoy your life, I have been retired early and have done many interesting things met interesting people and travelled the world I even tried to write a travel book.

    Stop waisting time about the end, Enjoy your life, do not worry, I look at life as a learning place where we can do so many good, interesting things

    BOB

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