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how do i stop waking up so anxious
how do i stop waking up so anxious
I have this feeling, too. My own personal experience with trying to overcome this is to get up and say "I feel uncomfortable for some reason and Im going to keep going on with my day, despite it". I don't sit and wonder why I feel anxious, what's causing me to feel anxious or looking for my obsessions to try and neutralize the anxiety because it only makes it worse and it only feeds the monster. It will go away eventually, but for now just keep going about your day despite it :)
I wish I had a helpful answer, but I just wanted to comment here and say this happens to me almost every day, too. It feels like the anxious feeling sets the tone of the day and immediately causes the OCD to go into overdrive
I used to wake up all the time in a cold sweat panic from ocd and anxiety. When you wake up it is like your mind immediately goes into anxiety mode but is also half asleep so it can’t combat the anxiety as good as usual for like 5-10 minutes. The way I dealt with it was to tell myself before I fell asleep that I knew I would wake up anxious, and I would try my hardest to control it upon waking up. I would wake up and kind of “tank” the anxiety hits and just ride it out without letting myself panic. This mindset change kind of gave the morning anxiety less power over me, which ended up decreasing it.
i feel like going to bed with a calm mind means you’ll wake up feeling a bit calmer. i usually fall asleep with a racing mind and then wake up with a racing mind, it’s like my mind is picking back up where it left off. i know it’s hard to calm your mind but you could definitely try
You are probably waking up so anxious because you are going to sleep very anxious. Just from personal experience, I know that if I go to sleep very anxious, I am waking up several times during the night, having bad dreams, sweating, etc. I wake up not refreshed and I am already feeling anxious. Now I leave a comedy on while I sleep or a podcast and I feel like it helps block out the thoughts while I'm sleeping. Maybe you can try that!
@Anonymous yes your actually right, the more i think about it, the more i realize i’m always anxious about something before waking up anxious
for me I don’t feel any anxiety at all in the night but mornings and afternoons are a completely different story
Good question! I need to do the same!
I was really anxious before I went to bed last night so I couldn't stop checking my phone because i kept getting scared i was gonna somehow use my phone while asleep and send people horrible messages. Then I managed to fall asleep but then i woke up really early in the morning and just couldn't get to sleep and my mind was racing. And then it somehow unearthed false memories from a few weeks ago. Then I had this thought that "I remember" and it just made me more anxious because I know I didn't do anything but my brain is trying to tell me that I remember. OCD makes no sense sometimes, but it's still scary all the same. I hope that everyone has a good day, or at least a better day than yesterday if you're having a rough time <3
I'm at my college and don't feel like being here. I didn't even want to come here. I woke up with anxiety bc i feel like i need to solve this. I had a bad stomach ache when i arrived to school and still havent even eaten breakfast yet bc i feel like i have to solve this. Im just so worried bc i have harm thoughts daily. If i could i would remove this! I dont want to think anymore. Its just, how do I know i dont have real urges when I'm feeling a negative emotion like anger or disappointment or annoyance? Im worried EVERY time i feel a negative emotion. Yesterday I was playing video games with my neice (we are close in age range) and she made us lose. She started blaming me and I guess i felt a little annoyed, it really wasnt my fault (dumb mini argument it was more playful since we started laughing but it was a bit annoying). Anyway i got a harm thought while feeling annoyed of me getting off the couch and lunging at her to attack. I immediately look at my bodily reaction and I tense up to stay as still as possible. My stomach was hurting and i wanted to leave as fast as possible. I stood up and turned off the game and said i was tired while making sure to stay back from her (and i had my hands away and stiff) but i felt so uneasy. I laid I bed and felt sad and heavy. And i kept getting thoughts that said "íts only a matter of time before you can't take it anymore". I started to reassurance seek using ai to ask if i was about to or if they are real urges or thoughts i mean until i eventually fell asleep in the middle of the compulsion. Im just so worried, what if I act out impulsevly one day? I dont want to! But what if when feeling a negative emotion, i suddenly dont care and do something? I really dont want to! I dont even want to feel negative emotions anymore since they trigger the thoughts and I dont want to think about any of that. As a result i tend to avoid my family as much as possible bc they are annoying sometimes. I just wish i was all alone sometimes so i wont get any more thoughts and so everyone can be safe. I usually just stay in bed under my blankets all day long to avoid my family and pets. I am constantly uncomfortable. I miss when i would never think any of this. Living life has become very scary for me now. 😞
im getting so annoyed i cant stop thinking about time and death and everything how do i stay present and cope literally almost everything is triggering me its been weeks it feels like everything is moving so slow yet so fast and i can feel every second and i keep getting random memories of things i usually wouldn’t even remember they aren’t bad but its just another reminder of time passing and the only thing that helped just enough is xanax but i cant keep taking it every day cause i dont wanna get addicted i need like natures xanax or something how do i produce the same effect a xan gives without taking one for the love of god bro as soon as i think its getting better i start spiraling an hour later and wont be able to stop and its making me feel like i need to go to a psych hospital or something but then i feel like what if im not bad enough to go to one
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