I've been stresse out by this paper due, I finally got it done but now I have anxiety from all the stress and I am only gonna get two hours of sleep. My heart is palpitating from me being so tired, I feel like there is a huge lump in my throat, when I try to fall asleep I get that butterfly feeling of anxiousness and it make me feel nauseous. I feel like I am going to die too. It's just a bad night and I want to sleep
I used to get terrible insomnia, no sleep for days at a time, sometimes it's better to accept you will be tired and start your day early. Your body will sleep when it needs to
I feel your pain daily, I work full time and attend college full time and on top of that I have a husband and step son to attend to when I get home from work, so my plate is full and I stay stressed at all times along with panic attacks regularly. I am learning to deal with the anxiety by telling myself it's just an attack and I will be fine. It truly is all in our mind and the negative thoughts we think that make us feel the way we do. My doctor has put me on paxil and It hasn't taken affect yet, but I can tell you that sleep plays a major role in our overall health and well being. Proper rest is required for proper function throughout the day.
When anxiety strikes hard it can, as you know, affect your sleep patterns. It also starts to un- balance your electrochemical system and physical symptoms start to manifest as well as mental symptoms. Tiredness compounds the issue and makes you want to stay in bed even though the anxiety symptoms start building up because you know you have to get up and face the day.
You can feel trapped in this cycle- so how do you break it?
If you are deep in, positive thinking rarely works because the anxiety symptoms promote negative thoughts; it's quite different to being more positive on an 'up day'!
Breaking the cycle is difficult if you don't know how to do it, so you need some help!
You need to find the most sympathetic GP and get some appropriate treatment.
It is a medical condition that affects homeostasis just like diabetes or any endocrine imbalance.
When the chemical imbalance settles down, then you can start to focus on mental triggers.