What works for you? Im New

[natureslaw]

Hi, I hope you are well. I have just joined Today and feeling totally desperate. I have severe anxiety in the evenings and realised I simply hate to be alone. I got divorced last year and have gone from a noisy ( 2 kids), wife etc... to this horrible silence in the evenings that make me feel am losing my mind and I simply cant get to sleep or if i do I wake suddenly at 3am and it brings on horrible anxiety and panic. Does anyone on here have my kind of Anxiety (in the day I feel fine - most days) and if so is there a doctor giving them anything that works for them? I am prepared to try almost anything. Thank you and I hope everyone who is struggling finds there way

[Hidden]

Hi and welcome

Sorry for what has happened to you. Enxiety can be a really bad demon. Here there are a lot of people who have great of advices and I know you will benefit from their advices and copying schemes. Welcome again

[natureslaw in reply to Hidden]

Thank you

[Iamanartist1 in reply to Hidden]

I read novels. They take me away from my thoughts and anxiety. I also go to therapy and am on prescribed drugs for both anxiety and depression. I think it’s important to see a psychiatrist who can provide counseling and drugs.Good luck! I also play music during the day...

[Hb2003]

I drink lavender tea and do therapy 😊✌️

[Nothing_but_books]

For what it's worth, there are a lot of insomniacs here to chat with at night.

I hate being alone too. What have I done about it? Well, I like to look things up in my spare time (too much of it). I learned it's called autophobia (or monophobia). See? Now that it has a name we're all set.

Seriously, I try to busy myself. I work. If I can't work, I read, I make myself some tea, watch films, write down my plans for the next day.

It stinks, huh. Maybe it'll improve over time?

[Dolphin14]

I don't sleep all night either. I just get up and read the news and answer emails etc.

I do meditate and eventually get back to sleep for another couple hours.

I have to say it's much improved over the last year or so

[MelaniaTaylor]

Kind of reminds me of the early lockdown days when I used to sit all day alone in my balcony looking at the random occasional passerby. And once the sunset, I started to feel so alone in my apartment that I my anxiety would be going over the roof. After some time, I was even sick of using my phone or having those long video calls with my friends. That's when I moved to using marijuana to cool myself off. It would really calm my nerves down and my night would go down really well after that. mmjdoctor.com/how-medical-m... Here's how marijuana helped me get relief from anxiety