kelseyt
01-10-2014, 03:44 PM
So recently I've developed a new symptom of anxiety, one I haven't actually heard many people talking about.
It's fairly "normal" for us with anxiety to be scared to fall asleep, like the feeling like you won't wake up. But my fight or flight response has actually started kicking in the second before I fall asleep now. I'll just be laying there with my eyes closed and as soon as I get relaxed I'll get a huge rush of adrenaline that makes me wide awake.
It's sort of like that feeling you get of falling then you jolt awake sometimes when you're about to fall asleep but worse, because it completely alarms me as I go from relaxed to that much adrenaline in a split second. I then can't get back relaxed enough to try again because of all the adrenaline in my system. This can go on for hours until I'm so completely exhausted that I pass out and get about 2 hours sleep as I need to wake up early.
Has anyone else ever experienced this?
I'd really like some advice.
It's fairly "normal" for us with anxiety to be scared to fall asleep, like the feeling like you won't wake up. But my fight or flight response has actually started kicking in the second before I fall asleep now. I'll just be laying there with my eyes closed and as soon as I get relaxed I'll get a huge rush of adrenaline that makes me wide awake.
It's sort of like that feeling you get of falling then you jolt awake sometimes when you're about to fall asleep but worse, because it completely alarms me as I go from relaxed to that much adrenaline in a split second. I then can't get back relaxed enough to try again because of all the adrenaline in my system. This can go on for hours until I'm so completely exhausted that I pass out and get about 2 hours sleep as I need to wake up early.
Has anyone else ever experienced this?
I'd really like some advice.