Keep waking up

[Compo69]

I feel tired but I'm scared to sleep! Need help!

[Mcminn1]

I feel the same compo. I wake up with a fast heart rate every morning so im scared of going to sleep to. But if you know it's only anxiety what's the worst that can happen. I have to convince myself

[stde]

it helped me.............used to go to bed with ear phones and I found an album,tai chi........"sunrise".......never heard the end of the first track...............best wishes

[Marguerite2013]

I had that in my early 'teens! I was afraid to "let go" and sleep in case I did not wake up again. I never told my parents... But it passed... after a while...and later on I was told by a psych that it was a form of separation-anxiety - and thinking back now, it happened when I was dumped into a boarding school.

So if you can work out what has been happening in your life recently - that might make it easier to "let go" and fall asleep.

As one of the replies says - if you distract yourself by playing music, that is also worth trying.

All the best....... M x

[christhenix]

I found audio books helped at a low level so that you had to concentrate to hear them. Don't think I got though a whole chapter...ever.