What are your early mornings like? - Anxiety Message Board

paxo · 04-16-2007, 03:18 AM

Hi

What are your early mornings like?

I awake with mild panic attacks about every 6mins. Also i have random images that startle me awake. I cannot seem to stop these images and their effect. It drains me. Any ideas about this?

After getting up things improve. I suppose it's best to get up when you wake up

Why do things for a lot of us seem to improve as the day goes on?

Tell us about your mornings and any advice you have

Paaaxxx

ChaosAD · 04-16-2007, 05:59 AM

My mornings are usually the worst. I'll wake up very early but still roll around in bed till I have to get up for work. By staying bed though I almost always make it worse because I'm just laying there and the thoughts can run through my head. It seems it is always better to just get up and start the day, but usually I can't do that cause my body just wants to stay in bed. On work days, once I am up, I am usually busy till I get to work just running around getting ready and heading out the door. Once I get to work it is a crapshoot on how I will feel. I am usually one of the few here this early and my ex is always here, so I get to deal with that on top of everything.

What I do to try and get through is to just keep busy and if thoughts come into my head I try and push them out.

hotdam · 04-16-2007, 06:34 AM

I feel the same way as the both of you, there are days where I am fine in the morning and then there are days like the last couple where the panic started, I too try to push it out, but just getting out of the bed seems to work, I work from home so I also deal with cabin fever sometimes, you know the isolated feeling. I belive the reason we feel better as the day goes on is we are keeping our mind busy on other things. Believe me I am no expert on this. I am just trying to get through each day panic free if at all possible.

paxo · 04-16-2007, 08:04 AM

This seems to be a familiar scenario for most of us. Only last night i thought tomorrow will be different.....

Making a drink when i wake up then going back to bed helps. Some suggest for a distraction sleeping at the other end of the bed so u will see a differnt view on awaking. Or facing a window when you wake to see movement.

What I am having success with is the following approach with intrusive thoughts/images:

Learning to "just be" in the present moment. "Just be" is being nuetral to the thought/image. Not analyzing, not being drawn in, no ruminating, no what ifs and so on. You're trying not to think at all. you're simply being and letting it pass. The 'not dwelling' is important. It only takes a little time to get the hang of it but the result is that the thoughts/images are not being 'fed' and die out.

Getting up at normal time not long after awaking is good for me but as u say ChaosAD our bodies dont want to. I think the busy/distraction thing is also true hotdam. Hotdam do u get to talk on the phone to break up the cabin fever?

It maybe that our minds are still trying to make sense of the day before although even my best days are followed by disturbing mornings.

perhaps someone may have some answers

Paaaxxx

Paaaxxx

barbpom · 04-16-2007, 09:21 AM

I seem to always wake up in a high state of nervousness. My hubby trys not to wake me, so when I wake up and he is gone. I'm just so jittery. I have never woke up in a peaceful type of moment. I hate that. Today is a bad day for me anxiety wise, I can't shake that nervousness out of me. I'm beginning to take 800 mg's of magnesium, so I hope that helps.
Barb