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: 31w

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: 31w

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

Vangogh00021

Date posted: 20w

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

myfunnyvalen...

Date posted: 13w

Can anyone help?

Does anyone know any tips on how to accept the uncertainty of being unable to sleep? I get to so scared that if I don’t sleep, something bad will happen to me. Or I’ll end up in like the hospital or I’ll go crazy. It’s really scary and it bothers me so much. If anyone has advice I’d love to hear it!!

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milkcarton19

Date posted: 10w

Help Out of Loop

I had a really bad nightmare revolving around one of my big themes and I woke up with the panic still left over the dream as if it was real and I kept thinking about the situations. I tried to tell myself it was just a dream, but then it made me question real life. So then it was a cycle of ruminating about the events as though they were real and my reality which really messed me up bc my biggest theme right now is becoming schizophrenic/catatonic/"crazy." I feel stuck in a loop, I've tried saying the "maybes" and even talking to my partner about other things but it just keeps looping in my head "am I crazy?" "I can't differentiate between dreams" "I feel like I'm stuck in my head and I can't even talk". Any tips? I feel like I'm at the crescendo of my 20 years (lifelong) ocd due to stress from moving soon.

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