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Can't sleep due to anxiety

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My anxiety causes my whole body to feel like it's slowly swaying. If I concentrate on that feeling I would find myself feeling like I will fall forward or backwards. This has been the most common way my anxiety turns up. It gets really uncomfortable. My body tenses up so much, especially my legs. This feeling lasts for hours. Currently as I was trying to fall asleep with the feeling, I suddenly felt like if I was falling. Quickly I opened my eyes. Now I am scared to sleep. I have been feeling like this for a couple of days now. I was taking medication for my anxiety but stoped taking it a few months ago. I don't know if I should start taking them again because the reason why I started taking them was because of the same exact feeling I have now. I really hope it doesn't get worse. Yesterday it felt like I forgit how to breathe. I quickly got up and walked around and tried to get my kind off if it and I was thankfully able to get my anxiety attack under control. That was the first time in a while I felt like that. I feel like I will have no choice but to start taking my medication again. I really thought I could handle my anxiety without it. I am disappointed in myself.

Edit: 2 hours later now my heart is racing when I try to sleep. I. Forcing myself to sleep but can't. My palpitations went allow me to.

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Hi i have suffered some anxiety whilst trying to sleep and heart pounding the more you focus on it the worst it is you need a distraction some deep breathing deep breath count to 4 whilst breathing in hold for count of 7 then big puff breath out keep doing this until your calmer also you can get sleep hypnosis c d I wish you well x

Also it would help if you can exercise and this will help to relax you and tire you out and release the happy hormone seretonin look up Paul mackenna sleep hypnosis and also instant calm I need to get that c d again mine is broke I just kept playing it through the night everytime I woke up I would put it on I fell asleep before it finished

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