darkenedshadow
12-26-2012, 12:04 AM
Hi!
My name is Nathan :)
I am new to this forum and need some help. The reason I am turning to this forum right now is because I don't have any means to pay for any professional help at the moment, so any tips would be nice.
To give you a quick breakdown: I normally suffer from anxiety and depression, a mixture of both.
In the mornings, I find it hard for myself to get out of bed. I feel no motivation to do any work and I just feel exhausted and want to continue lying in bed. Once I get up I have to rush to work or rush to get my daily chores done. In the afternoon at work I am mostly focused on work and I do not have as much anxiety during the day, sometimes I do have anxiety at work but I believe it is just co-related to lack of sleep. Once I get home, I go on my bed and browse the internet for hours and end up not doing anything productive. I get depressed and anxious over not doing everything that I actually want to do in my spare time. It's the worst when I'm by myself (I live alone) and there is nothing pushing me to do anything. So I just sit down and do nothing but worry every aspect of my life. Then once it gets time to fall asleep I get very tense and I can feel my teeth cringing on each other and my muscles tighten up because I know I m going to go through the same thing the next day.
It is like I am not allowing myself to get into a regular routine and regular sleeping pattern. When I get tired at night I get anxious and cant fall asleep. I dont remember the last time I had 3 nights in a row of regular sleep.
I do believe that I found the cause to my dilemma, I have tried to resolve the issue in the past but after a couple attempts it is really discouraging. It's hard to try and be happy after years of depression and anxiety. Any help with tips would be very appreciated :)
My name is Nathan :)
I am new to this forum and need some help. The reason I am turning to this forum right now is because I don't have any means to pay for any professional help at the moment, so any tips would be nice.
To give you a quick breakdown: I normally suffer from anxiety and depression, a mixture of both.
In the mornings, I find it hard for myself to get out of bed. I feel no motivation to do any work and I just feel exhausted and want to continue lying in bed. Once I get up I have to rush to work or rush to get my daily chores done. In the afternoon at work I am mostly focused on work and I do not have as much anxiety during the day, sometimes I do have anxiety at work but I believe it is just co-related to lack of sleep. Once I get home, I go on my bed and browse the internet for hours and end up not doing anything productive. I get depressed and anxious over not doing everything that I actually want to do in my spare time. It's the worst when I'm by myself (I live alone) and there is nothing pushing me to do anything. So I just sit down and do nothing but worry every aspect of my life. Then once it gets time to fall asleep I get very tense and I can feel my teeth cringing on each other and my muscles tighten up because I know I m going to go through the same thing the next day.
It is like I am not allowing myself to get into a regular routine and regular sleeping pattern. When I get tired at night I get anxious and cant fall asleep. I dont remember the last time I had 3 nights in a row of regular sleep.
I do believe that I found the cause to my dilemma, I have tried to resolve the issue in the past but after a couple attempts it is really discouraging. It's hard to try and be happy after years of depression and anxiety. Any help with tips would be very appreciated :)