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Posted 7/6/2014 2:29 PM (GMT 0)
I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with this, you wake up and kinda do a body scan of any symptoms you might have. If you find something then your panic rises. I had a really bad panic attack about two weeks ago, I awoke and my ears felt wierd, full and I thought I had a brain issue or stroke. I was freaked out, went straight to the doctor and it was just fluid in my ear from my sinuses. Now everytime I awake I always think my ears feel full again or I have a headache, my sinuses are horrible lately and it doesn't help with anxiety. I hate mornings, always have since my first anxiety started. I really hate sunny bright mornings, I like it when it's cloudy or raining, winter is my favorite time.
Posted 7/6/2014 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
Deborah: I know the feeling. I have been waking up with anxiety every morning since I was
diagnosed with dry eye syndrome two and one-half years ago. I too like the dreary days, sunny ones add depression onto the anxiety. I just want to stay in bed all day, but actually, I feel better if I force myself to get up and start moving around.

One thing that has helped is that I take an anxiety pill right before I go to bed. It doesn't prevent the morning anxiety completely, but it cuts it down to maybe 1/4 of what it would be otherwise. I take generic Klonopin (clonazepam), 0.5 mg. (Believe me, I know of all the side effects and withdrawal effects of this drug and would take something else if I could.) Anyway maybe an anti-anxiety pill before bed would help.

Before I get up I also lay there and try to focus on my breath by following the in-breath and the out-breath as long as I can keep it up. This calms me down some, so that I can get up and start my day.

Hope you feel better.

WaLa
Posted 7/6/2014 3:02 PM (GMT 0)
Hi WaLa, I'm glad someone can relate to the cloudy day thing, lol.
Posted 7/6/2014 5:20 PM (GMT 0)
i go through that too , i hate the sun , i like my house dark , its a isolation thing ... its the anxiety and its no fun
Posted 7/6/2014 5:32 PM (GMT 0)
D.S.

Sorry that you had a rough morning! I hope that you are feeling better soon, and the rest of your day is calm.

Do back back and see your doctor if your sinus issue has not cleared soon. You may be able to get some allergy treatment for relief.

Use your coping skills first thing in the a.m. before you even get out of bed to knock that anxiety down, and not allow it folllow you throughout your day!

Wishing you peace.;)

S.C.
Posted 7/6/2014 6:17 PM (GMT 0)
I have been the same way for as long as I can remember. I dislike the sun, the morning, heat, bright lights, summer, all that stuff....

I prefer night time, cloudy, overcast, dark, rainy, stormy weather, and I love the snow and Winter.

I've been told things like I'll "get over it" once I train my body otherwise (such as when I had to arrive at work around 4:30am/4:45am to open the club and get it ready for 5:00am)....Years of this and still....nope.

Not having any of it.

Sure, my family all thinks I'm a little nutty, but you know, the older I get the more I'm coming to accept that this is part of who I am. Some of us just simply are not morning people,....(or sun-people, or warm-weather people, etc.)

It's variety that makes the world go around!

If you use the search feature and type in "morning anxiety" you will probably feel more at ease when you see just how common this is. So many of us find that morning is a big trigger as our physiology jumpstarts to get us going.

You're not alone!








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