- Username
- whaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
- Username
- Anonymous Anonymous
- Date posted
- 4y ago
You are going to be ok. Try to take the approach that it's ok if you don't sleep. Maybe if you need to get up and move around or even sit somewhere else. My therapist told me that self harm thoughts is my brains screwed up way of helping and its presenting me with different options to relieve my anxiety. It's just a thought and not an indicator of what I'm capable of or that it will happen. Just acknowledge it and let it go. Same with the fear of not sleeping I know it's hard but you will be ok. If you lay down again just tell yourself you are resting and stay present. I hope you feel better. I've been where you are so many times
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
thank you. The problem is I used to be told that insomnia meant I was bipolar crazy. I'm not diagnosed bipolar anymore but I think I'm going crazy all the time. And it hasn't been this bad in literally months.
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
@whaletuune So your problem is mainly what you connect with this insomnia, not the insomnia itself. I know it feels scary, I really do.
- Username
- cocococo
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Can you do anything to distract yourself like write? draw? Smell something like a perfume or cologne
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Hey there, how is it now? I totally know how you are feeling! Just try to breathe at first ok? Don't fight the feeling and don't fight the images. Do you know Harry Potter? The first book, where they are stuck in that poisonous plant and just have to relax and let the plant devour them only to find themselves underneath it and in security. I am here and I am telling you that it is exactly like this. Do you understand?
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I'm going to go to my dorm bathroom and splash water on my face
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Yes that sounds good! You got this hun!
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I don't know usually it's not that bad. I'm going crazy. I feel so isolated. I have not had insomnia so bad in almost a year, I have absolutely no idea what brought this on. It came out of nowhere
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
And right now is a difficult time all over the world. We don't feel like it because it doesn't feel like an immanent threat but deep down it makes all of us anxious. And those who are already anxious even more.
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I can't stop panicking and even though I'm extremely tired, I can't sleep. I shut my eyes and lie still for half an hour or forty minutes. I drift in between feeling kind of asleep to complete wakefulness. I have no idea if this counts as sleep. I'm so tired but I don't sleep and adrenaline is coursing through my body
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Then don't sleep. It feels horrible because you connect it with so many things, "it's getting bad again, why is it like this..." Accept the fact that right now, you feel like you can't sleep. Your poor body is totally anxious, be gentle with it. Don't be hard on yourself because your brain is confused right now.
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
Can you go outside? Not to make it go away but to provide your body with oxygen and to feel more connected.
- Username
- Anonymous Anonymous
- Date posted
- 4y ago
I know what that is like I've felt that too. My friend told me that even if you close your eyes and just try and relax, even if you dont sleep you are still getting rest your body needs. Sometimes the thought of something bad will happen if I don't sleep or I'm so tired I have to sleep just stresses me out more. I haven't heard that about bipolar, but I'm sure your anxiety is latching onto that and trying to prove or disprove if something else is going on here. I don't have bipolar and I struggle with sleep issues. Try not to focus on what this means, I know it's hard. Alot of people have nights where they can't sleep, it just happens sometimes.
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
then I'll try to rest
- Username
- whaletuunewhaletuune
- Date posted
- 4y ago
My body needs to stop associating my bed with anxiety at least
- Username
- SoMi1907SoMi1907
- Date posted
- 4y ago
You can make it stop by going to bed and accepting that whatever happens just happens. And I know that this is easier said than done... But it's the only thing you can do right now.
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- Username
- anonymousN
- Date posted
- 5y ago
Hey can someone please help me out here . I’m trying very hard not to panic . I’m a little spooked out rn I can feel my anxiety rising as I’m trying to get some rest . Please help me get this off my mind
- Username
- zaynab
- Date posted
- 5y ago
I have work at 4am tomorrow and normally am asleep by 9 or 10 at the latest to be up by 2:30. But the thoughts are so bad I’m afraid of even closing my eyes and lately I’ve been going to bed at 6pm to fall asleep by midnight. I’m so over this. Any tips for falling asleep without getting bad thoughts. I keep picturing imperfect things or reliving every event that triggered me throughout the day. Last night I literally tried falling asleep without closing my eyes (which is impossible) then had to work today running on 3 hours of heavily interrupted sleep. I’m so exhausted and just over this.
- Username
- emilyxo17
- Date posted
- 1y ago
Pls help!!
Everytime i try and go to sleep the most random scenarios pop up it’s like I’m aware of them but not like I’m half asleep half awake I’ve tried to clear my mind and stop them but I can’t stop them. What if I think of something bad and then it makes me poet anxious. It’s like i feel myself going to sleep but then I can see a scenario playing but im not in full control. Idk why this is happening but im terrified and exhausted. I just wanna sleep. I cant stop it from happening. It’s like im not in control but im only fully aware of what’s happening when i snap out of it and sometimes I even forget what was happening when I open my eyes. Im so confused what is this???? What’s happening????
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