I need help!!!!!

I have bad dreams, weird dreams, normal dreams. I dream about everything I can think of, watch or read. I wake up with panic attacks from the dreams every night and it’s hard to go back to sleep. I’ve talked to my psychiatrist, I may start a medication to help with it anxiety and depression but I just can’t stop thinking negative and I’m terrified of falling asleep. This has been going on for a month now. A month without any good sleep. I feel so tired and afraid of this. I don’t know how to make my brain stop. I’ve seen my cardiologist and even a sleep specialist the past few days and they said it’s more likely anxiety. I’m losing my mind. How do I shut my mind off? Am I going crazy? What is this? I want to sleep. Psychiatrist thinks I have a combination of everything. This is affecting my life in ways I didn’t know it was possible. I can’t stop crying. What can I do?

issphra 🫶🏻

Date posted: 28w

I’m so so sorry. I’ve experienced this over the last couple of months and it’s truly hell to go through. I have a mix of OCD, GAD, MDD, ADHD, PMDD, and panic disorder. My OCD and ADHD feed each other, they trigger my GAD and MDD and then my PMDD is basically an amplifier and then there’s the panic disorder. Having multiple things going on can definitely make you feel crazy, I know that well. You’re not alone. Things that I did to help a bit: - I started sleeping in my mom’s bed because I felt more comfort there. - I started taking magnesium glycinate to help with sleep and stress. - I have a show playing in the background just so that if I wake up, I wake up to something that can ground me a bit. - Drink water when you wake up and feel panicked, especially if it’s cold it can help with the nerves a bit. - Cry all you need, it’s okay. I’m so sorry, this is so frustrating. - Try watching on reading something before bed to lower the chance of a nightmare. This can backfire so be warned. When my mind wouldn’t shut off, if it wasn’t going off about my OCD or nightmares, it would rant about whatever I had watched or read. It was SURREAL and I’d wake up sobbing, not because I was terrified of what my brain was going off about, but because I was exhausted and horrified that my brain wouldn’t shut up it was like it was trying to reach a maximum word limit of 10 million. I see you said that happens to you too :( It got to the point where I’d cover my ears or yell shut up. It calmed down a bit but I still suffer like this every few days. Medication could definitely help so do try that just know it can make it worse at first. I’ve heard exercise helps too, tire yourself physically and your brain follows suit. It’s not something I’ve been able to try bc I have too many physical health issues right now but if you can try it, I really hope it helps. I’m sorry you’re going through this ❤️‍🩹

Tulips4thesoul

Date posted: 28w

This is random, but I was taking hydroxyzine for my anxiety, and it has a side effect of nightmares. I already have nightmares sometimes and I think it was making mine worse, I stopped taking that medicine and the nightmares decreased a lot afterwards, so maybe look into the side effects of meds you already take as well. Just a thought from my experience

Vee4

Date posted: 20w

Rant

I'm really frustrated right now because once again I feel like I can't keep up with my own brain and I just can't keep doing this. I'm so tired of doing this. My head is always going and going and going and I just want to unplug it. It makes me so stressed. It's like I have someone else in my head who won't shut up and is always pointing everything I do out. Like I'm walking on eggshells around myself so I don't trigger these thoughts. But if I walk on egg shells then it just goes on about something else and I feel like I'm going crazy.. I feel so bad because it makes me so snappy. I want to bash my head in because I'm so over it. The only thing I know that helps is anxiety meds, because I had one one time and it actually really helped me (it didn't even do it's job! Because of how bad my anxiety is!! I'm just so desperate at this point for relief) But the last time I brought up going on meds for anxiety with my mom she said I'll get addicted, like my dad, or my grandma, or whoever else in my family because everyone in my family is addicted to SOMETHING. I don't see the issue in trying though. I feel like I'm someone who could really benefit from anxiety meds. I don't talk about my feelings often BECAUSE of anxiety, so it seems like I'm just trying to go on meds for no reason. But it's like..my body hurts. All the time. And my brain never stops. My brain is so messed up. I feel like I could do so much more if I wasn't like this. It's never going away, I've tried and I've tried and I'm still a mess. I just want it to stop. I'm not asking for much. I just want the fear to stop and the intrusive thoughts to stop and the racing thoughts and the feelings of doom and the nervousness and and I actually want to feel okay in my own skin for fucking once. I've tried everything nothing works im losing patience and I'm losing hope. I feel like there's something wrong with me. I feel like my brain is broken and that makes me sad to be honest. I feel like everyone around me can work. Why can't my stupid brain work???? I try so hard. I try so hard all the time. And it still doesn't do what it needs to do. I hate myself so much.

Vangogh00021

Date posted: 17w

Help please

I was trying to sleep in an aunt house and I’m suffering from nightmares or when I take naps or sleep I dream horrible things, and I took a little nap and I was about to start having a nightmare and I woke up. There’s a person that lives here and he’s not even here but I was about to have a dream with him it’s so scary he’s not even my family member or anything. And like it’s a delicate topic. But it’s the feeling that I can’t even sleep sometimes without dreaming this things that are so scary . And the groinal responses are about to kill me ! This is truly destroying my life I don’t know what to do I don’t want to be like this but I’m too tired to stay awake and too tired to sleep

Anonymous

Date posted: 13w

please help..

i’ve been going through weird phases in life and it’s really not what i need at all. i’ve been recently having really bad anxiety and i think i have depression (not sure) but everytime i go out my stomach starts to hurt and my mind goes all over the place i just always overthinking bad things are gonna happen like im just having the worst panic attacks when nothing is even happening. i can never go out with friends feeling normal because my mind goes crazy about anything. i can’t hang out with my girlfriend without having really bad anxiety and panic attacks, it’s also so bad that recently i got a job i’ve been trying to get for almost a year now and i finally have the chance to get into the job but my minds all over the place about traveling to another state for training and also even getting the job in general i feel so scared and feel so uncomfortable and uninterested when i been hoping for this opportunity for the longest. idk what’s going on with me and it’s clearly ruining my life and my mental. im starting to think it’s because about 2 years ago i used to smoke weed frequently and i stopped a while ago but now i do it once every blue moon and im thinking about quitting everything in general. what can i do to heal my mental and help my panic attacks where nothing is wrong? i need help..

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