[squish_is_me]

What is going on here!
Ok I have posted several times about my DR being gone mostly. Well as things in my life continue to stress me out and my anxiety grows it is creeping its way back in!
I first wanna say how proud I am of myself! I went to an amusement park yesterday! A HUGE step for me! I have yet to venture to a place so big and crowded because of my anxiety! I went and had a good time! All day my anxiety was sorta eating at me though.. not a ton but some... and the DR just barely began to creep in as the day wound down!
Last night I was feelin stressed when I layed down at 11. I fell right asleep! I woke up at 3am in the midst of an anxiety attack?! I woke suddenly and freaked out. Must have been a bad dream? I dont remember dreaming so I am guessing. Then I saw I was at home and layed down and tried to go back to sleep. I layed in bed awake for at least a half hour with my stomach totally in nots and freaking out in my head! Thinking about the days events. How I felt yesterday, just knowing I am totally loosing it, and so on!! Why for the life of me all this happened I couldnt tell you! All I wanted was to go back to sleep and my mind just kept reeling itself down this path!? It was horrible! Finally I went to the living room and layed on the couch watching tv till I calmed down and fell asleep!
Anyone wake up in an anxiety attack like this before? Anyone know what the hell is going on!? Janine, any thoughts???

 

[flowingly]

I'm not sure why it happened, but I have woken up feeling in a panic, as well. Mostly, I just wake up feeling like the dreaming has just begun, not ended-- I'm a million miles away, and I want to get back, but I cannot find my way, so I panic. I would think and feel so much as night that I wasn't sleeping, so my psych gave me some sleeping pills. They don't help with the morning-weirdness, but they help me fall asleep finally.

Congrats on making it to the amusement park! Where there rides and games? Win anything?

 

[squish_is_me]

oh yes lost of rides! Ever heard of Kings Island? That is where I went! I didnt win anything though, no money to play any games!

I usually dont have this problem. I mean sometimes I get this weirdness durning the night when I come out of a dream and wake up a lil where I feel sorta not with it but that is is! I woke up in a full blown panic that continued to escalate and wouldnt go away! Even once I fell asleep on the couch I had a dream that I had been kidnapped and was devestated about never seeing my children again and the other I was being hunted by a psycho with a shot gun!

 

[squish_is_me]

oh yes lost of rides! Ever heard of Kings Island? That is where I went! I didnt win anything though, no money to play any games!

I usually dont have this problem. I mean sometimes I get this weirdness durning the night when I come out of a dream and wake up a lil where I feel sorta not with it but that is is! I woke up in a full blown panic that continued to escalate and wouldnt go away! Even once I fell asleep on the couch I had a dream that I had been kidnapped and was devestated about never seeing my children again and the other I was being hunted by a psycho with a shot gun!

 

[squish_is_me]

oh yes lost of rides! Ever heard of Kings Island? That is where I went! I didnt win anything though, no money to play any games!

I usually dont have this problem. I mean sometimes I get this weirdness durning the night when I come out of a dream and wake up a lil where I feel sorta not with it but that is is! I woke up in a full blown panic that continued to escalate and wouldnt go away! Even once I fell asleep on the couch I had a dream that I had been kidnapped and was devestated about never seeing my children again and the other I was being hunted by a psycho with a shot gun!

 

[flowingly]

Yeah, I've heard of King's Island. Sounds like a blast

I don't think I've ever woken up during the night with a full-blwon attack, although I do tend to be even more aware and overwhelmed at night. I used to get bad nightmares almost every night. Bizzare, frightening nightmares about ghosts and spirits and evil. Although one time I ended up flirting with the devil before I woke up, haha.

 

[peterparker]

Nocturnal panic attacks are the only kind I have. Occuring sometime about an hour after I go to sleep. I haven't found any cause for them other than it supposedly happens to people with derealization when changing from one stage of sleep to another. I take medication which works, and have been working on sleep hygene such as not sleeping with TV on or working on computer up until bedtime.

 

[M A R S]

My latest attack of DR/DP started like this: I woke up in a semi conscious dream state and freaked up, I WAS FREAKING OUT LIKE MAD! Since that day i have felt unreal and lost. Like I'm not real or even awake. I wake up many days with a raging panic attack and anxiety.

 

[squish_is_me]

Sorry I posted that 3 times... dont know how that happened??? Anyway, I think I saw somewhere that this can be commone for DR peoples. I dunno iut was just so weird! I woke up already freaking out and it just went on and on! I didnt that that could even happen!
About good sleeping habbits. Well I used to always fall asllep on the couch watching tv and move to bed midway through the night where the TV was off. In the past month I had been trying to go to bed without dozing off on the couch and no TV on. I did alright. Adam, the father of my children and bf of almost 5yrs, just moved out 3wks ago and the past week or two I have really been having a hard time getting to sleep in the dark! I think he is sorta a safety blanket and that is gone now! But the other night when this happened I was good and actually went to sleep with the tv off!
sigh... I dunno. THIS SUCKS! Anxiety during the day is enough! Sleep is usually an escape from all the anxiety! Now its haunting my sleep!