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Complete night time fear.

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HB55
HB55

I have had trouble sleeping for a week. Nothing I do seems to relax me or help. I have health anxiety so when I dont sleep I worry something bad will happen. I was feeling very tired then from no where I had a surge of anxiety and fear and fell apart in tears. This is awful.

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  • Freelancewriter
    Freelancewriter HB55

    Posted

    You have got to get control of your thoughts so that you can sleep or you will never have peace. I have struggled with this for years. You have to force yourself to think about positive things and not on illness or fears because the more you focus on negative things the more symptoms you will have creating an endless viscious cycle of torment. You can try to play some calm music also, but gaining control of your thoughts is the biggest thing...tell yourself that you will be OK and that you aren';t going to die even though you feel like it...you ARE NOT going to die. Tell yourself the TRUTH! The more you do this the more control you will get. Believe me I know. I have been medication free for 17 years now so you can do it. You can take back control of your life with one thought at a time. Good luck!    
    • HB55
      HB55 Freelancewriter

      Posted

      Thank you for your reply. It has helped. I no its hard and I really do try. the worst times come when I let the fear and panic take hold. My thought last night was I was going to go mad and end up in a mental home. My fear is of loosing control. However I know this will not happen as its fear and not the truth. But there is no telling me that when im in a state. I will keep the positive thoughts going!!
    • HB55
      HB55 sals_5655

      Posted

      Hi. I dont no where you are with this now. I took a sleeping tablet and got a few hours but the fear that cycle will happen again tonight is always at the back of my mind. I have been told by a dr that meds dont work well for anxiety, you have got to treat the root cause and try and manage the thoughts and eventually it will get better. But depends how bad it all is I guess. I read as many self help books as I can and try and implament these as much as possible and it has helped, I am just having a bad time but it will pass. Untill it passes it will be so hard and scary.
  • michael15793
    michael15793 HB55

    Posted

    Im so sorry to read your post and really feel your pain and send you care and hugs. I feel so useless as i cant be of much help but still care.

    Unfortunately i have a number of issues myself and am very drunk yet again 😦 I can however relate to the sleep issues as most of the time i suffer insomnia.

    Best wishes and im awake also ☺

  • Hans15
    Hans15 HB55

    Posted

    I can completely relate to this, I starting getting scared of sleep at uni and then since I have been home from the summer it got 100 times worse I thought I was going to die in my sleep, so I would stay up as long as I could to tire myself out, I'm 20 years old and I felt about 5 again having to get my mum to sleep with me to stop the panic attacks it was awful!! But the best advice I can give you is that everything is going to be fine, if you convinced yourself it's just anxiety nothing is going to happen to you, you are healthy, alive and well- the relief you feel once you realise that is great. I'm getting much better I still have the odd night where I feel anxious and my heart races, but calming music really helps me and just happy nice thoughts always puts me to sleep with no worry! Please try not to worry, I know first hand how hard it is- but trust me your absolutely fine and you will get over it x
  • lillian03642
    lillian03642 HB55

    Posted

    HB55.  Know just what you are going through, I am not going to be
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