Waking Anxiety

Something I suffer from horrible anxiety on waking. Ive tried to rationalise it as simply the cortisol naturally kicking in, but its not natural, well it doesn’t seem that way. It comes with huge amounts of guilt, but attaching that to anything is difficult if not impossible. This morning for instance the feelings are intense, like Ive done something dreadfully wrong and Im going to be caught and punished. 

Im also diagnosed with c-ptsd so with that in mind it makes a kind of sense, but the intensity is out of all proportion to my life. I might have been having a dream (nightmare) which occurs intermittently where Ive killed somebody and hidden the body, then am terrified of being caught and imprisoned. I seem to be carrying this horrible burden, I know rationally thats its not justified but emotion mind cannot see that. 


My sleep is often bad, the nightmares are less than they used to be but I rarely get sufficient sleep. Lately Ive been having a frightening time dropping to sleep where Im trapped in this zone between awake and asleep, I get these jolts, Im unable to move yet almost awake, I convince myself Im dying and that I deserve it as Im a bad person. 


oh well, just need to get the coffee and get past this, we have the last few things to do at my old house before completion on Monday. 

Alice

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  • I think it might be the stress of moving. The change of routines, the uncertainty, the anticipatory anxiety, probably all create a threat response, pulling you into old fears and mixing it up in your head.

    Hopefully things will get better once this is over.

    My brain is also quite good at tormenting me when stressed. 

    Sleep is when you are vulnerable, so you have to feel safe to sleep.

  • Thanks everyone for your replies. 

    I got referred to a sleep specialist but all he would talk about was sleep apnea, which I am certain it isnt. I needed to talk to him about sleep architecture and parasomnias but he wouldn’t discuss these with me. He had been insentivised by targets to diagnose as many as possible with apnea so I was of no interest to him. Unfortunately he was quite senior and his letter dismissing (discharging) was patronising and critical.

    Today went ok as far as it went, Id hoped to finish the removals and cleaning today but we will need to go back tomorrow unfortunately, I was hit by fibromyalgia exhaustion early afternoon and we had to come home. I felt quite anxious and low as we now have only a few hours to finish. My anxiety was made worse by a coach load of east anglian Reform young farmers types with silly caps bused in to campaign in our area for the bye election. They are little short of fascists basically who know nothing about our constituency.

    Anyway we managed to get some sleep and cuddles while they terrorised the neighbours with their bigotry. Its cat feeding time now and the herd are gathering Joy cat  we have four, all rescues. 

    Alice

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  • Thanks everyone for your replies. 

    I got referred to a sleep specialist but all he would talk about was sleep apnea, which I am certain it isnt. I needed to talk to him about sleep architecture and parasomnias but he wouldn’t discuss these with me. He had been insentivised by targets to diagnose as many as possible with apnea so I was of no interest to him. Unfortunately he was quite senior and his letter dismissing (discharging) was patronising and critical.

    Today went ok as far as it went, Id hoped to finish the removals and cleaning today but we will need to go back tomorrow unfortunately, I was hit by fibromyalgia exhaustion early afternoon and we had to come home. I felt quite anxious and low as we now have only a few hours to finish. My anxiety was made worse by a coach load of east anglian Reform young farmers types with silly caps bused in to campaign in our area for the bye election. They are little short of fascists basically who know nothing about our constituency.

    Anyway we managed to get some sleep and cuddles while they terrorised the neighbours with their bigotry. Its cat feeding time now and the herd are gathering Joy cat  we have four, all rescues. 

    Alice

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