Anxiety and dreams

Well it's January and I'm once again riddled with anxiety - seems it's always around this time of year that I get it the worst (but I get it at other times too).  What I've noticed over the last year or more is that I have vivid, oftentimes upsetting, dreams every night.  That is probably why I wake up each morning with the most severe anxiety which lessens somewhat after an hour or so (or maybe that's because the Xanax I take first thing in the moring is starting to work).  I also take 25mg of toprol for BP but I find it helps with my pounding heart when I'm having an anxiety attack.  The only thing is I read somewhere toprol can cause vivid dreams but it seems like a low dose of 25mg wouldn't do that....don't know, just know I HATE having these dreams and the way they make me feel when I get up each morning.  I'm also convinced now that, at age 64, I'm developoing Alzheimers.  I've suffered from health anxiety all my life, convinced I always had some kind of rare, terminal disease but actually been quite healthy all my life.  Now, because my aunt had classic Alzheimers, I'm convinced I must have it too.  I still work and keep active so it's not like I'm sitting around doing nothing but I'm still sure whenever I forget something that THAT'S IT...the dreaded dementia.  I wish sometime before I die I could rid myself of all these medical fears....it seems I've wasted a good portion of my life thinking I had things I never did....I know it's part of the whole "anxiety" spectrum but knowing that doesn't seem to make it go away.  Right now I'm typing this and am sure I'm having a stroke because one of my ears is plugged up, making me a little off balance but I'm SURE it's got to be a strok coming on.....I get really disgusted with myself that I'm like this but can't seem to convince myself.  What a heavy burden anxiety is....no one who hasn't experienced it can't imagine what we go through.  I feel for all of us.  But I do agree with one of our other writers who suggests comedy to lighten the burden - it certainly does help me.  I remember a very long time ago my mother saying to me "surround yourself with happy people and happy things" and I think she's right...don't watch depressing dramas and reality shows on TV and don't perpetuate other people's depression just by sympathizing....try instead to be positive and talk them out of it...maybe you'll at times talk yourself out of it too.

Hi

Good to meet you. Sorry to here you are having problems with your anxiety I to get bad health anxiety and it can really take hold and before you know it you convince your self you have all sorts of things.

I have a very understanding doctor and if I am very anxious I go and see him just to get things checked and to put my mind at rest. When you are dealing with high amounts of anxiety you become very in-tune with you body and notice every twitch, pain etc etc.

I have had vivid dreams all my life and also bad nightmares this is due to my aspergers syndrome I have always found those hard to deal with but agree with what kitt said about reassuring yourself they are just dreams.

Keep posting to let us know how you are getting on. Take care

Hibee

Hi Carmila


Good to meet you. I will try that I have never taken vitamin B complex but good to here it has worked for you.

Hibee