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#Anxiety #Cantsleep

I noticed every time I have something that I KNOW I have to be awake early for the next day, that’s not the usual, I can’t sleep. If I try to force myself to sleep I always wake up like I didn’t take a breath in and have to force myself to breathe, which then my heart is racing & im nauseous. Now my anxiety is high and I can’t go back to sleep. This also happens if I’m overly tired. I don’t get it. I just wanna sleep without waking up in panic and afraid to go back to sleep. Idk what’s even happening. And google scares me more 😭

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I understand! The longer I’m awake, the more awake I become, and the more impossible to sleep it is. I get more and more passionate and productive at night… i love not being tired while
like this, though I guess I’d rather be able to go to sleep normally and wake up still ready to take on the world, with the same passion. But because once my insomnia leads me to something I’m passionate about, I begin to feel like sleep would only kill my productivity anyway … I usually will stay like this maybe napping an hour here or dozing once in awhile for about 3 weeks, when “ lucky” ; then I go to the total opposite end of the spectrum and can’t keep myself awake, if for no other reason, the depression that comes with having to try and find
Productivity again. A week or so I find it again while laying in the dark, eyes wide….and the process repeats.
I know this isn’t healthy but … I guess it kind of has a positive side?… and a down side :/
Is anyone else..
Similar ?😅 #Sleep #Nightowl #Insomnia #MajorDepressiveDisorder #CPTSD #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #PTSD #Trauma #Caregiving #Caregivers #Burnout #Cantsleep #Upallnight #Sleep

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#Cantsleep

Oh Utube, excellent! Watching the rain from Utube penthouse! This is truly a vacation for my brain!

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Fictional characters with Fibromyalgia?? #fibrowarrior #Fibromyalgia #ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #Selfcare #Books #Cantsleep #Reading

I would love to read a book that features a fictional character who has fibromyalgia. Please comment if you have read any good fictional books whose characters have fibromyalgia.

I would also love to see a recommendation for a motivational book for people with chronic pain/chronic illnesses. If it's a book specifically about fibromyalgia, please make sure that the author has fibromyalgia themselves before recommending. I know that that sounds nitpicky, but I have heard enough BS for a lifetime 😅

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#tired #Cantsleep #Anxiety #OCD #ADHD #Aspergers

For those of you who don’t know, I have a really hard time sleeping. I don’t know weather to laugh 😂 cry 😭 or both lol

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Long Sunday it will be..#Cantsleep #Sleep #self -hatred #GeneralizedAnxietyDisorder

Laying awake for over 7 hours to get some rest. Physical pain (weather changes ) racing thoughts of self-doubt , overthinking and tears. Reading is not helping. Had a great day with friends & family. Old dark thoughts of being a burden or annoying to everyone. Fighting the impulse to not do something I’ll regret later. Feeling like a kid when aniexty caused stomachaches. When it comes to self-image I am disgusted with myself. Overweight and looking rundown doesn’t. On the up side most my face is finally covered by a mask.

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What am I doing wrong and Random thoughts?

Thats the immediate response when shit just ain't happening right. Then, is it really me (because ive made this up in my mind) or is it them? Why is my life quiet and my mind so loud? I stopped wearing one mask but there's like 5 more underneath that one. I feel like I'm running out of time! I hate that I give more love to others than I do myself. But I love it. Just can't do right. What the fuck is really wrong with me? Why do these meds only work temporarily? I been taking pills for 4 years now wtf!!😳😟Whats my purpose? I'm just walking through life, I can't even smell the roses. I think someone hid them 😂 Wheres the love of my life at? I'm tired of waiting🕢. Am I setting the best example for my daughter♥? Ahhh that feels better. Whew I was gonna explode✴ that let some of the steam out!! Thanks for always listening Mighty. #SchizoaffectiveDisorder #MightyTogether #BipolarDisorder #MajorDepressiveDisorder #Anxiety #randomthoughts #Cantsleep

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Moved across country now to change #MentalHealth clinic after same one for 15 yrs.

I’m stressing pretty bad tonight. I recently moved from Mobile, Alabama to Denver, Colorado. Tomorrow I have my first mental health appointment at the local clinic. I will be getting my usual meds refilled and my #Abilify injection. That part is not scary-that’s a good thing actually. What’s scary is having to go somewhere I’ve never been, be treated by front desk ppl/nurses/doctors that I’ve never met, and having to figure out where everything is and who everyone (the staff helping me) is. I have #Agoraphobia so all of this really amps up my agoraphobia symptoms. I am so scared about tomorrow that I #Cantsleep tonight. It’s almost 2am and I’m wide awake. I don’t know what to do to ease this. I’ve never changed my mental health #treatment team/facility/routine. I’m also worried about not seeing a therapist until May, and I’m worried what if me and the new therapist don’t match? I am trying to rationalize all of this-but do I sound like I’m overreacting? What would y’all do? How to not only get through my first appointment with them tomorrow, but how to find the normalcy and comfortablility in this whole situation?

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