Anxiety when waking

[enough]

amazing how this place times out sometimes.
Last night after being asleep only an hour and a half i was woke up and found myself in the throws of a full on panic attack. No nightmare, no easily identified increase in stress, no accounting for it.
I remember being in a group maybe thirty years ago and hearing a member tell us he thought his emotions fell from the sky and landed on his head. Anger, joy, anxiety, arousal, depression, all of them random and without any precursors. I could not relate at the time, it was unimaginable.
i am living it now. The diagnostic term is dysregulation and it sucks.

yep, anxiety on waking, got that. Trembling hyperventilating inability to calm the f*ck down on waking- oh yeah, sometimes it lands on my head.

 

[Susan Jane]

amazing how this place times out sometimes.
Last night after being asleep only an hour and a half i was woke up and found myself in the throws of a full on panic attack. No nightmare, no easily identified increase in stress, no accounting for it.
I remember being in a group maybe thirty years ago and hearing a member tell us he thought his emotions fell from the sky and landed on his head. Anger, joy, anxiety, arousal, depression, all of them random and without any precursors. I could not relate at the time, it was unimaginable.
i am living it now. The diagnostic term is dysregulation and it sucks.

yep, anxiety on waking, got that. Trembling hyperventilating inability to calm the f*ck down on waking- oh yeah, sometimes it lands on my head.

This is what I go through, anxiety, panic, crying like a small child then it changes to feeling depressed. I feel like I am on a rollercoaster, anxiety after falling asleep, upon waking, fear and then the pit in my stomach… I have to deal with it all day. When I am in one of my so called episodes it is much worse. It is a very hard thing to manage, too fearful to go out in case I can’t cope, stops me exercising or seeing people, then I feel isolate and down.

 

[enough]

i was finally sent packing by my long time therapist. Get local better help or not, she said she cant do any more for me by telehealth. so i have no choice, get better local help or wait this out, and i dont like the odds of this passing on its own. I have seen an md, will see a cardiologist team and a psych, talking to therapists who are within an hour of me and missing my best therapist ever
the stomache feeling is relateable, mine is more like an ice cube in my chest but it is definitely something i get too. It rides along through distractions throughout the day but is there almost every time i check in, constantly feeling the first wave of panic

 

[Susan Jane]

i was finally sent packing by my long time therapist. Get local better help or not, she said she cant do any more for me by telehealth. so i have no choice, get better local help or wait this out, and i dont like the odds of this passing on its own. I have seen an md, will see a cardiologist team and a psych, talking to therapists who are within an hour of me and missing my best therapist ever
the stomache feeling is relateable, mine is more like an ice cube in my chest but it is definitely something i get too. It rides along through distractions throughout the day but is there almost every time i check in, constantly feeling the first wave of panic

I feel you and wish I had a cure for all of us