It should be off limits!!!! It's a sacred place!

Sleep.....it should be the one place we can go to rest and recoup and ready ourselves for the trials ahead!!!!! But what to do when "it" wakes you from out of your sleep!!!!! It's horrible and leaves you feeling that there is no peace....anywhere.
Any body else go through this????

G.,

I agree...this is a dirty trick on anxiety!! ;/

If it is any consolation, I found that as I progressed in managing the daytime panic...

...this is when the nocturnal attacks started.

With continued use of therapy and coping skills...the night time P/A's also stopped.

I'll occasionally wake up with anxiety in the middle of the night, but with postive mantras and breathing, I can quickly recover now.

Keep up your efforts...it is going to get better.:)

S.C.

Aloha,
I am in transition from zoloft to paxil right now. Coming down from 200 mg of zoloft, I am now at 100 of zoloft and at 25 mg of Paxil. I also take klonopin, but at the present time all systems are in chaos!!!!

Hi Grams,

Couldn't agree more, sleep is sacred, we all need it, lots of it :)

I finally seem to have the anxiety under control with meds, mindfulness and talk therapy, have been anxiety free for a few months now.

My only issue now is SLEEP, I can't seem to fall asleep unless I've had a few derinks, the nights when I don't I toss and turn for hours. I also wake in a sweat I know is from anxiety.

I will say I am not getting any anxiety about the sleep issues which is a positive, I just catch up on the weekends. Also, like SC said, this has only come about for me since I got all the day time stuff under control.

Wishing you the best on your journey. :)