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

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.

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. :wave:

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

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

Paxo,

Yes I am on the phone everyday, I guess its the fact that I am in the house all day and I dont really get to go anywhere except on the weekends and then I am off and running. I just came back from the Dr and he is putting me on Celexa, not sure about this medication. he explained the seratonin stuff, at this point I want to be the way I use to be unafraid, carefree, not a worry wort that I have become. :dizzy:

Hi my mornings are disasters, I wake up it seems in panic mode,super anxious,nervous,short of breath ect.. I found just getting up asap when I open my eyes helps because it gives me less time to lay in bed and think about the day ahead and what happens before bedtime is also important as far as thoughts ex.. today was bad, I guess tomorrow will be too,will I sleep ok,I'm sick of this, when will it end so I'll feel normal or going to bed tense/angry/stressed I think those night thoughts can predict the morning feelings some of us have. I try to read a bit to put my mind in a peaceful state before bed, it does not always help though but every bit helps!! I feel like I set myself up at night sometimes to produce the morning anxiety which I'm working on. I also feel alot better as the day goes on, maybe because I get involved in doing things and forget about it but there are those dreaded days where I dont do anything and my anxiety last all day long and creates a cycle that last for days and leaves me depressed and wore out.

HI

It's true hyper that the evening sets the tone for the 'morrow. It doesnt always work but as u say it all helps. I cant watch some tv in the evening with wifey as it starts my anxiety off and influences the night sleep.

The dreaded days are times i try to visit freinds and find it helps. I keep away from those who always want to unload. I have always loved people in a general sense but talking to them has made me look on them as a treasure as they give me so much without realizing it. I cant take freinds in the morning but like to meet them as soon as on those days. It helps the day and so improves my disposition before i go to bed.

Celexa,citalopram, is what ive started hotdam (well, it's 'sister' med cipralex/escitalopram) I tried without meds and had a raft of vits etc but i got worse though some can do it - I really tried. Ive been on them about three weeks now. I started low then increased. They take about 4-6 weeks to really kick in. However, I am approaching 'normal'. Still, the mornings are not perfect. Considering i had to walk the streets very early in the morning to walk off the anxiety the difference is amazing. I'm not saying go on them. Thats a decision we all make independantly and with the doc. I can only say what they have done for me.

One thing helps is making a drink when i first wake up and taking back to bed. Then i sleep again a bit better.

Just throwing this into the pot. It may help someone.

Paaxxx

Trying to find an 'answer' to these early morning symtoms.

I happened to take my med late morning (usualy take it as soon as i wake). The next morning was the best I'd had. I hear that these meds only last about 20 hours. So delaying the med that previous morning may have allowed the effects to continue into the next morning. I dont know.


Paaxx

I usually have a relatively good ending to the nt. I find I can usually relax and read and go to sleep. Sometimes my sleep isn't as good as it should be though. I still find the mornings to usually be my worst time, even with the good nights. Not sure why this. I would think if I had a good night then that should lead well into the morning. For some reason though the morning is my best time for my head to create anxiety and irrational thoughts.

I think one of my main problems, at least during the work week, is that I work with my ex. That prob sparks thoughts in my head which just snowball down the mountain.

Boy Chaos,that is me as well.Just feel like not moving even when I have had plenty of rest.Then,if I don't go to work I am in more anxiety allday.My evenings are good,but from 6am until about 3pm,it's a crap-shoot! Be well.
Larry