Does anyone know how to help..

[Insomnianxiety99]

I can’t sleep at night because I stay up constantly worrying if I’m dying. My body aches and I shake and I can’t breathe and I’m scared it’s all in my head. I take my anxiety meds like I should but it’s so bad I stay up until 5/6am every night. Please help..

[mru008]

You have to revisit your psychiatrist to review medications & their dosage.

[quitter333]

Trust your body more. People are superresilient, so you wont die.

hey - empirical evidence that you havent died till now is a good enough proof, you will be ok.

[Sunandrose87]

Set up a bedtime routine... drink your favorite tea and get a positive book read every night. Repeat for one week. Let me know if works

[tamka38]

I had that fear and for so long and my mom would tell me to relax and think of a beautiful place in my mind and most of the time it work and after getting checked out by doctor for the 100 time I finally accepted that is anxiety and is not going to kill me if anything I will scare the living hell out of myself and now I don’t have that problem anymore hope u feel better and good luck

[Lindsey14]

I get how you feel, just know you are okay

[Jeff1943]

This feeling of impending death is very common among people with anxiety disorder. It is a nasty trick sensitive nerves play on us. We all are concerned not to die before our time but oversensitised nerves exaggerate all our minor concerns and fears many times over. This is why you feel this way.

It is only a thought, do not be bullied by a thought. You are not going to die, anxiety dies not have the power to do that. Regardless of how awful it can make us feel its power is limited.

We are allowed to have strange thoughts and this is yours. Accept it for the time being without fear, you know you are safe. Let it run its course, let it continue to come. But do not be cowed by something that is just a glitch in your tired nervous system.

Anxiety is whispering lies in your ear, do not take them to heart. Accept them for the moment and when your anxiety lessens you will suffer thesr strange thoughts no longer.

[Hidden]

I totally understand how you feel.

I’m going through the same thing.

What sometimes helps me is when I’m laying in bed trying to sleep and a thought comes into my brain, whatever it may be, I tell myself “I’m tired and I’m not thinking about that right now.” I have to say it a lot but it does keep me calm. As soon as an anxious thought enters, show it the exit.

[beautyoutofashes54]

You need to go see your psychiatrist and therapist. Something is wrong, maybe you are taking to much of something or not enough. In my thoughts. beautyoutofashe54

[Calm_mama]

Hi there,

I could have had your username at one time

You have had a check up by a doc, right? If not, do have one. Sometimes anxiety is the result of something else, and your doc can figure that out, usually easily.

Assuming you've seen the doc and been told this is anxiety...

You are simply tied up in knots. Yes, it feels like death is near, but no- this is what a sensitized nervous system feels like, and it's completely normal for the circumstances. Please check out the resources on my profile- they are tried and true, and you can see in many posts here that Dr. Claire Weekes (the favorite of my resources) has brought so many people such peace and relief from suffering.

As for insomnia- it is an offshoot of anxiety. It is nothing. The less you focus on sleep, the better you will start to sleep. With insomnia, when you finally do get some sleep, your body sleeps differently- in a deeper and more restorative way, and this helps "make up for lost time". So you have no need to worry about lack of sleep. The best thing to do when you can't sleep is get up and enjoy the extra time. Write cards, send emails, plan a trip, read, knit, etc... do something you like to do and don't toss and turn in bed. Practice sleep hygiene of course, (link below), but turning the insomnia into a friend rather than a foe is what will cure it.

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Wishing you all the best!