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I can't sleep well/or I wake up early bc of anxious feeling
For the past few weeks, I've been unable to stay asleep (waking up frequently throughout the night) or if I've been able to sleep for a few solid hours, then I wake up around the same time every morning, between 8-8:30.
It doesn't seem to matter what time I go to bed because I'm awake at the same time, unable to fall back asleep. I'm usually woken up by this anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach even though I'm comfortable and content with my life. (This morning, I woke up at 5:30, unable to go back to sleep, but I went to bed at 2 AM.)
I've had a history with anxiety so it doesn't surprise me too much, but my anxiety has gone down a lot in the past year, so it DOES surprise me that it's all of the sudden come back so drastically...
These past few weeks, a lot of changes have occurred in my life. I started a new job, I broke up with my boyfriend of 2.5 years, and I met somebody new. I understand how these changes may keep me awake, but to be honest, I'm happy with my life so I don't understand the anxiety in the pit of my stomach.
Do you think that maybe this is something subconscious, something I could overcome myself, or should I consider sleeping medication or talking to a doctor? Has something similar happened to anybody else?
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I understand perfectly. Your conscious mind is okay and even happy with the changes in your life because they are good.Almost all
Humans are creatures of habit, we don't like change. We like what we are used to. Our emotions are closely tied to changes in our life. Our subconscious mind is where are our emotions and feelings come from. So your subconscious mind is overwhelmed with the changes, even though good. There's that training period in a new job and the learning of things about the new relationship, starting from scratch with a new relationship that also can be overwhelming. You might try having talks with yourself, talking to your subconscious mind as if it were another person inside of you. But its hard to get the attention of your subconscious mind except for one way. It also controls your breathing...it's automatic, you don't have to think about it cus the subc mind takes care of it. If you take that job away from your subc. for a bit by focusing intentionally on breathing and changing how you breathe, deep breathes and holding it or slower or faster, etc. Thats what spiritual masters do to get the attention of their subs. If that doesnt work for you, a trip once to the hypnotist should help if your sub. mind is able to take suggestions. There are a few people who can't be hypnotized. A hypnotist is easier able to get the attention of your subc. mind and give it a new set of commands to run on as far as anxiety due to change and waking up at night not allowing you needed sleep. Hope all works out well.
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Anxiety can be deep in our subconscious which may be why you are having trouble sleeping as this would be the easiest time for something in the subconscious to come forward, so to speak. When your conscious mind is at rest and you're not as much in control of it as you are when you are when awake.
Sleeping medications may treat the immediate problem but they will not help you correct the cause. You will get over the break up with your boyfriend and the new job will become the old job fairly quick.
The problem of anxiety attacks is; when you get anxious what really is the cause. This is what you really need to explore and find a way to control. Anxiety attacks are really high stress. Sometime this stress is external though many a time it is self-induced.
Your family doctor can give you medication to treat these symptoms. To get to the root cause and to learn how to control them requires working with someone like a clinical psychologist.
This is someone you can spend time with exploring the cause of these attacks and finding the root of the problem. Once you find the root cause then the therapist can help you find a good or better way of dealing with them. Identifying the triggers is an essential point in controlling these attacks. This is what a clinical psychologists does best.
IF you have an EAP program at work it should pay for a specific number of visits in full with a psychologist as well as help you find one to work with. If you need more visits then your health insurance will or should cover some of the cost.
My suggestion is see your family doctor first and get a complete physical. The psychologist is going to ask you to get one anyway to rule out any organic cause. Let the doctor prescribe medication as they see fit to treat the symptoms. Then find a psychologist to talk with.
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