Anxiety at night worse?

Is this normal? If I am depressed it happens during the morning usually, but my anxiety if it happens is almost always in the evening/night time. I just wondered how others feel and deal with it. I have a hard time at night in bed especially if I am overtired I think and then I start panicking and have to calm myself down. Insomnia is a given but has been improving.

Thanks!

Thanks Karen. I have many tricks I use too like audio.
I have resigned to take 1/2 to 1 Klonopin tablet if I start feeling too anxious. The Pdoc
said to take one if I get that "uh oh" feeling. I hate taking the dang drugs but I only take it when I
have to and only take 1mg or less a day if any at all. I guess I feel like I should not need the drugs?
Silly huh?

My anxiety is def worse at night. I notice it most when im really tired.. I can feel my breathing slow down...which is normal for sleeping, but it makes me freak out.. So i usually Get up and walk around the house then try to go to sleep again..

I too find night time hard, as I let my mind go into overdrive just as I go to bed, resulting in full-blown war fare with my partner and it just escalates out of control. I panic that he's cheating on me and in love with someoen else and it drives me insane. I usually flee the house wanting to disappear - not him, the noise in my head.
The last 2 weeks has been better as we have chosen to be apart and as yet no melt-downs. Maybe I will need to be on my own to survive life

Hi there! I am in the same boat as most you on this page. My anxiety is worse at night. It is mostly when I am alone with nothing to do or no one around to preoccupy my time and thoughts. I think that it is worse at night due to the quietness and the fact that I am left to deal with all my thoughts. I have tried Valerian Root and it seems to help. This really sucks though because I have just started getting anxiety attacks and I am almost 30yrs old.

I have the same problem. I have suffered from anxiety for about 5 years sometimes its worse than other times. We are a minority and people even doctors can make out that it can't really be that bad. I would not wish it on my worst enemy the feeling that I am dying every night. I have tried many ways to help me get to sleep without anxiety but without success. I am going to try these audio relaxation tapes to see if that helps. I have never tried any medication as my doctor says I do not need any. It sounds bad but it comforts me to know that there are other people in the same boat then I know I am not going mad.

I think anxiety is worse in morning and at night because the mind is given too much time to wander and focus on things. Anxiety is a machine that is always working, but when it is distracted (by activity, projects, exercise, any focus) it does not manifest, or manifests less severely. When I get in bed often, or in the a.m., my mind races to all the possibilities that "could go wrong" or regrets, or whatever fodder is present for the anxiety machine. I would LOVE some kind of trick at night, in lieu of someone there to just remind me I'm okay. When I'm with someone (i.e. someone's visiting or I'm visiting someone or sharing a room on a vacation; I live alone) this tends to make a positive difference—unless the person is distant or has fallen asleep before me. Anyway, if anyone has any tools, or tricks, to put one at ease at bedtime, send them along! Thanks and peace to all.

I've just recently started suffering from anxiety this year. I'ts been driving me crazy making me think I have something severely wrong with me. The symptoms seem to escalate and decline randomly from week to week in severity. As of lately they seem to only truly bother me at night from about 8:00 pm until I fall asleep. It starts by me hearing a high pitched ringing in my head and having tingling sensations in random parts of my head. Once I start feeling symptoms I start to panic and my pupils dialate. My gf tries to comfort me when I get home from work but I feel like I want to be alone for some reason. It's effecting my work aswell, I start to lose energy quickly and become tired and short tempered (I've yet to lash out at anyone)while also feeling on edge and constantly alert. I'm fairly young ( 21 years old ) and I'm not sure if this is a physical problem or just anxiety. Ever since I've been feeling these symptoms I've been to the doctor for a full blood test, a physical, ultra sound on my abdomin and groin and a regular checkup. I worry that I have a brain tumor or something similar and constantly expect the worst. I stumbled across this site hoping for some comfort from those who are also suffering from anxiety as others who aren't don't quite understand what I'm going through. I'm also hoping for some reassurance that I'm not dying of some brain related illness, browsing google for weeks makes you think you have everything wrong with you.

Thanks for reading and I hope to hear from others who might beable to help me out with this.

I have started to have panic attacks at night. I take alprazolam and an extra pain killer. I have physical pain that increases at night. Breathing and relaxation exercises help a lot. A small glass of Japanese plum wine also helps. I get headaches very easily and the Uemasho plum wine works better than Advil.