Been waking up in middle of night

[KatieRichie94]

For the past 3 nights ive been waking up in the middle of the night. It will feel like im breathless and my chest hurts. I had a stressful job and just got out of there yesterday. Also my period is 3 days late cause of stress. Also im having some acid reflux issues. The back of my throat has been hurting again.

[bullyman99]

Hi Katie. I'm very sorry what you are going through...I wake up in the middle of the night too. For me, its been happening the past 5 years or so. I would wake up from a dream and my heart rate would be high, I can feel it beating in my chest, and I would sometimes feel woozy. This would happen anywhere from 2-3 times per night. I believe I was having a panic or anxiety attack from dreaming. Sometimes I can get back to sleep, sometimes not. I also get anxiety attacks while I'm up and about. Lately for the past 6 months, my sleep has improved. My attacks have diminished to 1-2 times a night and maybe once a week, I slept all the way through. Last 2-3 weeks, I have had no attacks a few times per week. Then until this week where I was back to waking up 2-3 times per week again (including this past night). I am very confident that I know its just a bad week and I will improve again! And it is indeed stress that started everything! Now, I don't know if this is anything like what you have been through mentally, but perhaps for others, it may be? My apologies if I'm not even close.

I have found something that helps me through it, and improves the way I feel if I have another attack. What I found is that if I accept the way I am currently feeling and symptoms while having an attack, this puts my mind at ease and its easier for me to cope with it. That is, I think to myself, 'OK, I feel awful right now, but I accept this feeling and I know its stress and it can't hurt me'. The trigger for my attacks seem to happen when out of no-where, I would feel woozy in my head for no apparent reason. I instantly get anxiety from thinking something is wrong with me, and then I calm it using the acceptance method. I just accept and observe that its there and its important to not judge it, analyze it or even try to suppress it. I have been doing this the past couple of years and it is slowly improving my health and sleep. I've suffered from stress for the past 15+ years before I found this method, so I expect it to take a while for it to fully heal me. There are times when I have fallen back to being stressed out again, but every time so far I have been able to crawl back out to improve the way I feel. It is important to also know that you can make a 100% recovery from this because others have in the past!

If you do manage to try it, then all the best of wishes to you and the others who decide to try this. Resources: mc2method.org. A free website with audios explaining everything.

Cheers!