My anxiety is at a high today my husband woke me up saying that I was jumping in my sleep..... I don't what it is or what is causing it and its making me nervous also have been having crying spells this morning... anxiety is rough... I just want my life back
Hi tamaria, I'm sorry things are so bad for you, I started a bad relapse with my anxiety a few weeks ago and I often jump in my sleep so much so that it actually wakes me up, I tend to spent half the night in a semi awake state too aware of my anxious feelings.
I think we just struggle to switch off from our anxious feelings even when we are sleeping and we are constantly wired into our anxious state and feeling 'on guard'.
The stress and worry of getting through each day is a lot to cope with and it's impossible to go to bed without thinking about it in some way, for example I might go to bed worried about the state I am going to wake up in and that makes truly restful sleep virtually impossible so being jumpy and restless whilst trying to sleep is a side effect of that worry and stress.
At the moment I am trying not to dwell on it too much although it is absolutely horrible, the days are rough so some decent rest would be wonderful but the more we worry about things the more worked up we get and then they tend to happen even more.
I sometimes listen to guided meditation before bed, I shut all light out of the room, black out blinds are fabulous at this time of year because it gets light so early and our senses become alert so easily.
I know exactly what you mean about wanting your life back, I feel like mine has completely fallen apart again and I just want to get back to where I was before, not perfect, not cured but certainly much better than I am at the moment.
I do believe that things can get better but I know it's no real comfort when you are going through hell with it, seek out all of the support you can, I don't know what help you have in terms of therapy, medication etc but if you don't feel the help you have is enough then push for more.
Thank you so much!!! It's rough sometimes but we are going to get through this!!!! I'm so happy I have people on here that I can talk to that understand what I'm going through
i had sleeping issues when i took Olanzapine 2.5 mg, cut back to 1.25 last night and no startled wakenings.