Hi everyone,
I am a new member but have been reading this forum for awhile now. It has helped me to feel a less alone so thank you in advance. I decided to join up because I've been feeling increasingly isolated recently and having a lot of bad days.
My sleep patterns are all over the place and I move between not being able to get to sleep because I'm so anxious and falling asleep almost immediately, napping a lot, and not being able to get up in the morning. On nights where I fall asleep straight away my body feels very heavy in the morning and full of grief and it wants to keep sleeping. This generally will lead to a very bad day and everything is emotionally off, I dissociate more easily, am more stressed by things and feel like I can't connect with people. Recently I've been having a lot of days like this. I do have a lot of nightmares but never remember having any on mornings when I wake up like this, I dissociated during my trauma and have consistently since then often not having much memory. It makes me wonder whether I am reliving the trauma on those nights when I am relaxed enough to fall asleep and thats why I am so exhausted in the morning and so affected for the next little while.
Wondering if anyone else wakes up exhausted after sleeping a lot, and feeling extreme grief or anxiety for no apparent reason and if so if there is anything that you do that helps to reduce the impact on your day.
I am a new member but have been reading this forum for awhile now. It has helped me to feel a less alone so thank you in advance. I decided to join up because I've been feeling increasingly isolated recently and having a lot of bad days.
My sleep patterns are all over the place and I move between not being able to get to sleep because I'm so anxious and falling asleep almost immediately, napping a lot, and not being able to get up in the morning. On nights where I fall asleep straight away my body feels very heavy in the morning and full of grief and it wants to keep sleeping. This generally will lead to a very bad day and everything is emotionally off, I dissociate more easily, am more stressed by things and feel like I can't connect with people. Recently I've been having a lot of days like this. I do have a lot of nightmares but never remember having any on mornings when I wake up like this, I dissociated during my trauma and have consistently since then often not having much memory. It makes me wonder whether I am reliving the trauma on those nights when I am relaxed enough to fall asleep and thats why I am so exhausted in the morning and so affected for the next little while.
Wondering if anyone else wakes up exhausted after sleeping a lot, and feeling extreme grief or anxiety for no apparent reason and if so if there is anything that you do that helps to reduce the impact on your day.