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I read before bed and it helps and I can take supplements to help fall asleep, but I wake up frequently and then won’t get back to sleep for the rest of the night and my mind starts racing and causing anxiety, like I’m in fight or flight and must stay awake. And when I start to dose off, something spikes and says “you’re falling asleep!” And this makes me wake up and feel heavier anxiety. Idk how to deal with that piece of it
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Maybe you need something with warmth like a hot water bottle covered in a towel or a towel warmed in the dryer.
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Go for it! Hope it helps. Also eating peanut butter before bed can help. I don't know why but I've heard other people say it and it has helped me too.
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I couldn’t stand the quiet either. I got a super super loud fan to drown it out. That’s been helpful.
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I have insomnia too. Once in a while I have a decent sleep but I usually lie awake for hours. I've started reading in bed which seems to be helping.
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I'm wondering (and this may sound a bit odd) but would having a stuffed toy you can hold be calming and help you relax?
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Funny you should say that I actually tried it last night and it didn’t seem to help unfortunately. I wish I could turn off that fight or flight feeling
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I’m willing to try anything
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It started when I became an adult, and started receiving my mental health diagnosis. I hyper fixated on each and every action I did and how it could be related to my diagnosis’s. It then lead to fixation to my physical health — making appointments and seeing every specialist I can to rule out every possibility. I currently have been suffering with obstructive sleep. I woke up the past few days with severe pain from the lack of sleep whilst believing I was oversleeping. Luckily my fit watch tracks my sleep cycle and it turns out I am not receiving any sleep. I had an extreme panic attack — bursting into tears on the phone with my mom wondering what this case might be. She told me it could be sleep apnea and that a simple sleep study could figure this out. However, knowing my family history I made appointments to every specialist I can to make sure it is nothing serious. The unknown of health can be scary to me. Watching my mother suffer with her physical health chronically since I was a child lead me to be very conscious and aware of how my body is functioning. This morning was one of the worst moments of physical pain. I should just take one step at a time with the sleep doctor instead of taking measures to see every specialist that could pertain with this issue. However, that is very hard to me. I don’t want to ever wake up in the pain I was this morning. Does anyone else suffer with health-related OCD? And if so, how do you find a sense of ease during moments like I expressed?
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Any one else deal with this? Like from the moment they wake up to the second they fall asleep, the intrusive thoughts are there?
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I feel like it’s just me. But at night when I start to fall asleep, play on my phone, or watch TV; I’ll get major intrusive thoughts and a butt load of anxiety. Has anyone felt the same about this? How have you managed it? It’s getting exhausting and even causes me to sleep-less.
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