anxiety relapse

[sarah56]

um it’s officially been 3 days that i can’t sleep on time or even sleep in. my anxiety just doesn’t affect me physically, it effects me emotionally. but some how i don’t think im having a relapse of anxiety or im just stressed.

[97531]

My own anxiety is great; however, I do have ONE remedy that helps me get to sleep at least for awhile . For me and others thinking about trying to get to sleep is counterproductive. You want the opposite. This remedy involves trapping your mind in something that is compelling but, this is IMPORTANT not something you care that much about. Also, the scenario must not be so complicated that you have an additional thing to worry about.

Like it or not I do like war movies. Believe it or not I find them less violent than even Law & Order. Back to our sleep problem In the movie First Blood Sylvester Stollen is tormented by a disturbed sheriff. Finally Stollin gets even and goes after the sheriff. The screen writers do a good job of making the viewer hate the Sheriff...At the end Stollin is taken away in handcuffs not by the sheriff but after he levels the town.

Are you still with me? How I go to sleep I list in my head every crime Stollin breaks in his quest to get the SOB Sheriff I know a little about law so I can list off the dozens of laws he could be held responsible for. Often I never reach the end because I fall asleep.

Another example, in my head I walk the trail in Emmigrent Basin Wilderness. Better yet I list in my head the fifteen countries of the former Soviet Union.

This method does have a problem. I can race through all 15 counties without a stumble. and I am still awake. Time to find a new compelling pattrn to think about

This method is the same as counting backwards by seven from 100; however there is little compelling about counting backwards. I find that it can work if it has something to do with me

I know of a person that names as many islands off of Scotland before he falls asleep

Sorry, that took so many words but I too am very anxious Scott