1st bad night in a looong time!!

Brandi Menifee · Post by **Brandi Menifee** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:32 am

OMG! Last nite, I had a really tough time! Lately I have been dealing with the body symptoms again for like the past month. I completed the program in July, and I was fine for a while, but now the symptoms are getting bad again. I've been sleeping well until last nite! I kept feeling weird, dizzy, off-balance, worry, worry, worry! I went to bed, but couldn't dose off. Once I felt myself dosing off, I jerked myself awake,(involuntarily). I felt hot, took the blankets off, felt cold, on and on. Then I went downstairs to lay on the couch. The symptoms did not feel like they were ever going to go away! I haven't had to take a xanax since February, but I thought about taking one last nite. However I didn't want to becuz I'm supposed to be better now, right? What is going on? I wanted to cry! I seriously feel like I'm going to have to deal with this for the rest of my life! I've even had that fear of dying OCD come back! To top it off I post this on another thread, and someone tells me I may have bipolor 2? I know they were just trying to help, but it just made me start to worry again! Why?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 3:06 pm

Stop, focus, and stabilize your thoughts. No one can diagnose you over the internet. This will pass if you let it!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:28 am

Brandi....don't be so hard on yourself. Allow yourself to feel the anxiety and know that nothing is wrong with you. All the symptoms are stress induced. We've all been there and are still going through what you're feeling. We're wired a little different and deal with stress/anxiety/panic in different ways. We need to learn to deal with it as it comes. It's not easy but in time these feelings will pass. Focus on how good life can be when not in this vicious cycle of anxiety. Not getting enough sleep only throws you into the cycle further. It's brings about the body symptoms of not feeling well. This is what triggers my anxiety. Ofcourse, having an 8 month old has brought about a whole other idea of sleep for me and it's turned my life upside down. I take naps of 3-4 hours!

Focus on what's causing this for you and be OK with feeling anxious. It's a normal healthy function of the body. Us that are afflicted with anxiety though become super sensitive to every body sensation. I know it. I live it. Breathe deep and take each moment as it comes. You're not alone....