[Invisible]

For months now my anxiety has always kicked off at night.

I can be calm all day but then as soon as it gets dark outside then the chest gets tight and all of the classic symptoms flare up.

The anxiety techniques are not really helping. I have tried lavender, breathing, relaxation, distraction but yet still the anxiety makes the night even worse.

I have problems with sleeping anyway and this just makes it impossible.

Does anyone else have worse anxiety at certain times of the day??

I think I know what the problem is and unfortunately it is not anything that I can solve.

Thank you for listening (reading) it is much appreciated.

[Tessaroo]

hmm this is such a tricky situation!

i know i get anxious when im confronted with something new or if im faced with a challenge. Especially going/entering a new place, that is a BIG anxiety issue. I usually sit in the car till i see someone familar, people think im late because im unorganised.

Unfortunately i cant think of anything that could possibly help as you have labelled everything id usually suggest as a failure, for myself i close my eyes and think of a happy place and really tend to focus on my breathing. im getting quite good at it.

best of luck invisy

[Invisible]

Thank you for the reply.

I try not to shut my eyes unless I need to as I get all sorts of horrible pictures showing up.

The breathing is the main thing I do but it does nothing really.

I am the same as you when it comes to going to new places, hence the reason I have my girlfriend with me all of the time when I go somewhere new.

Hugs about your anxiety, I know how sucky it is.

The thing that gets me anxious is the hallucinations in the hallway, they happen every single night plus the voices are still going on for me so it is a double whammy, then on some nights I will have flashbacks as well so I am very overwhelmed with things.

I guess I worry that the hallucinations will get into the room and attack me, like they have done before.

Yes they are hallucinations but when they attack me I feel everything.

Imagine that there is a murderer in another room of your house and you worry that they will slash you with a knife like they have done before. That is what it is like for me.

Sat in the house all alone now is making many anxiety is going up as I worry about sitting in the flat by myself.

I am so pathetic.

[missozzy]

thinking of you hunny..

my anxiety can be triggered by lots of things. its mainly caused by flashbacks but this runs through into everyday life also as they are so often it leaves me pretty much to think of a better word- screwed.

the flashbacks on the whole get much much worse when i am home alone. and with alot of the flashbacks being to do with fire everything i touch, smell or see could potentially burn. its a big mess. grrr. the only way i find of trying to escape them is silly really. Its silly when i think about it with my rational brain on anyway.
I will hide from the problem. the doors get locked and i check em about a million times, everything in the house gets unplugged ( yes when its dark i have been known to sit with a torch in bed reading, cos i cant have the bedside lamp on), and anything i can remotly see thats flamable, deodrants, lighters, etc....well i've put these in the garden before now, and then panicked that they where by the wooden fence so had to move them again. and they say i'm not nuts!!!!!

i tend to go to bed with my ipod on very low, usually just chill out music, as sometimes, and just sometimes a tune will come on that i will really really love and associate with really nice things and it does help a little. stupid i know.

( i cant find a hug so u'll have to make do with huggy kisses,oops)

[Tessaroo]

How are your nights going now, invisy? Hopefully something someone has mentioned has helped.

Thinking of you

[Invisible]

The anxiety is still bad and what makes it worse at the moment is that I have a cold/chest infection thing so breathing is hard without the anxiety.

Having a hard time tonight, but for a whole host of other reasons.

Thank you for the kind thoughts Tessa.

Just got to keep busy I guess.

[missozzy]

I'm praying for some solace and peace for you invisible,
i really am .

[Lee]

My Anxiety sometimes gets very bad while I am trying to sleep! I never found out why - and still don't know! It does my head in sometimes. I can be really tired and just not be able to sleep at all!

[Laura Lee Lewis]

i get anxious when im around people even being around myself scares me i hate them and myself.............leaving the house wouldn't be possible without my medication. I have nightmares and cant eat!


Hugs

[Invisible]

Thank you people.

Sorry that so many other people have similar problems.

The anxiety is getting so bad lately, not just during the night. I think some of it might be because of the extreme levels of the voices at the moment, and that I am feeling so low.

Just got to try using the lavender and the breathing techniques.

Peace to everyone else that is struggling.

[missozzy]

and peace to you invisy!!!!
know the feeling about crippling,
struggling myself....eek.
and to top it all off i'm full of cold. boo hiss
(cant pass em through cyber space though so you'll be fine)

hopefully the voices will settle down a bit soon,
at least for long enough to give dear sofa woman some peace.

[Invisible]

Thank you for those kind words.

Sorry you have a cold, I had one not long ago...Maybe it can be passed through the computer.

I know that the cold makes it worse because you are struggling to breathe anyway.

Hopefully the voices will settle down too, but knowing them they won't.

Seeing my CPN tomorrow so at least I get to vent at him.

Look after yourself.

[Crimson]

Hey honey,
Sorry I haven't been around much, you have always been there for me <3

Because I am Hallie, I thought I was the only one with this problem. But my anxiety kicks off as soon as the sun is down, the lights are off, and I am in bed for about 3 minutes before all of a sudden I am blasted with symptoms that make it impossible to think straight, breathe, stand up, rationalize, etc. And as you know it is all downhill from there.
Pathetic is the word I use to describe it, as I see you also have done above.
And I am not going to argue with that.
It is pathetic. It sucks. I can't really help much other than be really angry about it with you, and let you know I am struggling with the same damn thing and it is seriously and horribly frustrating.

After being frustrated and let down by aromatherapy, breathing techniques, etc I have found something over the counter that my therapist (NOT doctor) told me has helped her patients, and it may be helping me also.

It is called Rescue Remedy, and I found mine in the form of drops at the vitamin store here in town. I am a total sceptic about it, but my therapist swears she was until she saw firsthand how it brought her patients out of panic attacks and even shock. Since my panic doesn't always go 0-60 in like .5 seconds, I can't say for sure if it is working for me, but I have been taking the drops before bed and so far have not had a full blown panic attack since I started.

As you can read online it is all natural with no side effects, etc. I hope this gives you at least some hope <3
www.rescueremedy.com


I care about ya, girlie.
xx

[Invisible]

Thank you for the kind words and thoughts.

I wonder if we feel anxiety is pathetic because we live within a society that makes us feel like that?!

We know deep down that it is not pathetic, it is in fact scary, annoying and very tiring.

I have tried several things over the counter, not sure on that one, but nothing has really helped.
But if it helping you then keep it up.

For me the main issue is the pain that comes with the anxiety attack. I get severe chest pain and pain in my arm as well, so then that worries me and makes me even more stressed out.

I am in complete agony now as I have not been able to keep my painkillers down today, I am going to try again in a moment as I know that once the anxiety takes hold I will be unable to take them.

Just so tired of the whole thing. I think I know where the night time issue first came from, but over the years more things happened and my anxiety got worse.
Then I started having terrifying hallucinations in the hallway and the anxiety shot up...But I guess half dead people trying to kill you will terrify you!

Thank you again for the kind words.