I am wondering if this is just me. I have been having intense anxiety in the morning that last for the first part of the day. Slowly throughout the day the anxiety lifts until by the evening I am feeling pretty much like myself again.
Yes that’s me! Nothing to do with menopause as whenever I’m in a flare up, even from the age of 14, this happens. I think Joleigh87 has a good idea, that cortisol could be to cause. We naturally have cortisol and adrenaline to get up in the morning. So when we already have more because of the anxiety, it spikes even higher. The only thing that helps me is to get up and get on despite feeling like that. Like AM815 says, it’s like if you woke up with a headache. I have to ignore the thoughts that it will be forever and get on with things. Eventually I get to a point where it stops happening and I just don’t notice! Could be days or it’s been months but it does go
@Jennielouises Oh and this morning I marched up and down the empty office to get out some of that energy. I didn’t want to, I wanted to hide in bed, but we need to burn off the nervous energy
I’m experiencing exactly that! And for me it’s not menopause (31 yo). Before knowing I had ocd and getting helping with NOCD, I used to wake up super anxious every day and it would feel like I had an anvil on my chest. It would get a bit better throughout the day. I’ve been having a rough week with an OCD flare up but with everything I’ve learned through treatment it doesn’t feel as bad as it used to. I think sometimes the anxiety symptoms present before the obsessive thoughts do. So in the absence of a clear reason to be anxious, OCD can start grasping for scary thoughts to explain why you’re feeling anxiety symptoms. I keep trying to remind myself that just like my intrusive thoughts aren’t real, my anxiety symptoms don’t mean I’m in danger. They’re just discomfort, same as if I woke up with a headache.
The only thing that’s helped me get out of bed most mornings when I feel like this is putting on music. It’s just enough of a distraction or mood lifter to get me out of bed, and then once I’m up and doing my day DESPITE the anxiety, it starts to loosen its grip. I hope that helps!
So me. When my anxiety and intrusive thoughts are in check no issue but when I am having severe anxiety and my intrusive thoughts, mine presents what if I no longer know my name , go crazy, embarrass my family, no longer can work or am a burden to my family. When I am in that head space morning anxiety is excruciating and by evening I usually feel pretty good. Thank you for your post nice to know not just me.
Hormone imbalances... Gotta love em. Supposedly we're supposed to have them balanced throughout the day but noooo. Sometimes we get them in the morning, and sometimes it just wants be our bff throughout the day 😜.
Honey, that sounds like a menopause symptom.
does anyone else get morning anxiety or rather, anxiety whenever you wake up? doesn't really matter what time, but by the time you're awake, you get anxious and your problems seem like they multiplied as if sleeping collected all your troubles and threw them at you by the time you woke up
Does anyone else struggle with extreme anxiety in the morning? It’s like I wake up and my body is already anxious. It calms down towards the evening. It’s really frustrating to try to get moving in the morning when I just want to lay in bed and ignore it.
Hey there! I was wondering if anyone else experiences the same thing / has any advice on it! My OCD tends to be strongest in the morning, and it can make getting ready for the day pretty difficult. I always push through and continue with my morning / day, and eventually the OCD gets a little “less loud” so to speak, but I would love some insight on anything that has helped others in terms of not having so much anxiety upon waking up. I’m currently in therapy, but my next session won’t be for a few days as I’m on vacation at the moment.
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