ok by day nightmare by night...

[DaizyLynn]

I have been dealing with Panic attacks since 2013 and usually I have been ok to handle them on my own but recently (partially due to a health scare) I have been very unable to deal with them on my own, I been to my doctor and there is nothing physically wrong with me but My level of anxiety is just too high to live properly, I can be ok in the daytime at work or out and about but the shaking and the crying comes with the twilight. I have not slept more that 3 hours at a time for the past week, (my health scare happened a week ago) I am convinced that I will break, that my body will betray me somehow. I have a long term medication that I just started and it will take 4-6 weeks to work, I am grateful but I need help now. Please tell me that I won't feel this way forever.

[gypsylee]

Hi Daizy and welcome :)

Meds helped me a lot - they do take a long time to work and tend to make you feel even worse at first, but when they work, they WORK.

You won't feel this way forever, but one of the tricks anxiety plays is making you think you will. I'm feeling a bit that way myself at the moment and I've had this on and off for over twenty years.

Anyway, there's lots of great people here and talking about how you feel always helps :)

All the best,
Gypsy x

[Mr Jingles]

A few months ago I was same as you, sleeping about three hours and then insomnia the rest of the night. It really hurt. Energy, focus, everything down. Anxiety, depression up. Worst part for me was having no real idea what was causing it, so it felt out of control, and I thought it would last "forever." It was hard to go on.

This last month I've slept consistently six hours solid most nights. The difference in my attitude and hope is huge. So for me at least, it didn't last forever.

I'm wishing you patience and kindness to yourself for as long as the insomnia lasts.

[Im-Suffering]

I have been dealing with Panic attacks since 2013 and usually I have been ok to handle them on my own but recently (partially due to a health scare) I have been very unable to deal with them on my own, I been to my doctor and there is nothing physically wrong with me but My level of anxiety is just too high to live properly, I can be ok in the daytime at work or out and about but the shaking and the crying comes with the twilight. I have not slept more that 3 hours at a time for the past week, (my health scare happened a week ago) I am convinced that I will break, that my body will betray me somehow. I have a long term medication that I just started and it will take 4-6 weeks to work, I am grateful but I need help now. Please tell me that I won't feel this way forever.

What was the (trauma-shock) trigger in 2013? Can you trace it back further. You certainly had pre-inception anxious thoughts (feelings) dating back some time before the initial panic manifestation. Think about this for some time. Then connect it with the health scare from a week ago. This thought train off and on has been the psychological atmosphere most likely since some stage of childhood into adolescence.

What is it that you feel so helpless at twilight? These are all puzzle pieces to gain a clear perspective. This health scare would have been filtered through a distorted sense of awareness associated with anxiety. And thus tainted with excess fear.

Do a little detective work you see. With truth and clarity comes a degree of freedom.

[DaizyLynn]

well I can trace it back to when I was a kid, we lived in an anxious house because of my father, will dad be in a good mood or not type of thing. and the trauma was that I lost both my parents in 2013 and they died of health complications that happened all of a suden, here one minute literally gone the next. My mother went from talking to me to being on the floor with the snap of a finger, on my 30th birthday, in my house.