How Anxiety causes Insomnia (and how to sleep like a baby!)

[@Thebaron666]

This guy’s approach is the only thing that works. You can’t run from this, you gotta face it and remove the fear.

[@booba1008]

I am asking myself if staying in bed ist the answere or using stimulus control I am having completly sleepless nights regulary and am losing my mind

[@Thebaron666]

@@booba1008 I’m know what that’s like. Insomnia is another shitty symptom of anxiety. Staying in bed is never the answer. You must move forward even in the midst of your worst symptoms.

[@booba1008]

no I mean if I can't sleep at night should I stay in bed or go to another room and use cbti techniques@@Thebaron666

[@thpain9501]

I been trying this for months nothing as yet

[@MorningsWithMaria]

this worked for me as well, before I would get out of bed and pace or journal or go look at myself in the mirror at most I would go take a pee and get back in bed no watching youtube videos no journaling or getting up to walk around to clean my room just lay there and I would get micro sleeps versus no sleep and gradually the sleep got better … and thought the same eventually if I sleep I sleep if I don’t oh well I’m so grateful to have a work from home job .. it lessens the anxiety A LITTLE BIT. I also take blood pressure meds that I tell myself make me more sleepy during the day and make the anxiety worse I just keep telling myself .. it’s temporary you’ve been here before and you’ve gotten over it before dont trip . sending everyone so much love ❤️ I’m here if anyone ever wants to talk

[@nenehsambou1832]

me too please

[@garysimone4977]

@nenehsambou1832 how goes a the battle I am so close but still tough

[@123meenasalih]

This made me feel better, thank you.🥺❤

[@blackpattern]

Hey Shaan, thank you for all your good content here on YT. In this video you say it's better to stay in bed and alllow all your symptoms. In a newer video you said it's better to get out of bed, if you can't sleep. Have you a tip or more info's about that point? Thank you so much!

[@andrea_echaluce4482]

Its hard not being able 2 sleep. The headaches are unbearable

[@Ballie_Smak]

It really saddens me that so many of us are going through this

[@janice234]

But it helps to know you are not alone.

[@VolkanKaplan-p5f]

This help me some of the times when i suddenly wake up between 2 pm and 4 pm. Ill stay in the bed for 10 mins if i dont fall back to sleep then ill go in to the living room and try to sleep. While laying ill focus on my breath and let my thoughts free without focusing on them. I tell myself my thoughts are just thoughts and worries never really helped my life.... While focusing on my breath Usually i fell sleep again if i dont, i just get throughout the day without worries about why i havent slept even though i am tired. I actually also do my best not to watch the clock or any smartphone when i cant sleep. The more you dont care about your sleep the better you will sleep! This will take time of course to adjust a sensitive nerveous system. Marts 2024 the stress/anxiety hit me hard. I had a small panic attack i chosed to ignore but a week later I woke up with cold sweat every two hours and couldnt sleep. My brain was exploding with thoughts like i never experienced before. Sleep paralyse, panic attacks, weight loss, no appetite, hyperventilation, high blood pressure, yellowish bowel luqid movement, hands shaking, eye floaters, blurry vision, diziness, fatigue, no energy, hughtened sense such as sounds and ambient sounds were 200% more noisy. It was so bad that i could NOT get up from the bed without getting a anxiety attack. The doctor prescribed me Citalopram and other antidepressiv medicin and it made all the things even worse... i went to the ER a lot i thought i was dying and every blood check came back normal, MR scans came back normal except my blood pressure. The blood pressure was high I swear, i must have called the ER and my doctor like 50 times. I thought i was alone but one day at the hospital when i was being checked i felt in talk with two other patients that had similar symptoms like me. That made me realise i was not alone. The doctor who treated me even told me he just himself went through what i am going through right now... So it can hit everybody It hits different. It got me to a point where i thought i have some kind of mental ilness such as schizophrenia or a severe depression. My body felt sick with a mind full of chaos and doom. My brain suddenly felt like a brain of a ADHD (i assume people with ADHD have it like this) where the volume of my thoughts were increaed by 200% and my inner voice were trying to calm down thoose thoughts. I have never experienced such a inner battle. Inner peace just vanished and restlessness and inner chaos happened. It was like a boxing match but it happens within in your and i was like the one who got the punches from the inside out. I couldnt finf rest anywhere with all the psychical symptoms i had. I walked a lot out in the forest with theese symptoms and my brain would go insane.. it was like a massive thought explosion telling me all kind of wierd things that i normally wouldnt think... All thoose what if thoughts, worries, feeling of being very sick and such.... Today i am on high blood meds, also taking D3 vitamin and magnesium, and my sleep is a little better but compared to what i came from... Damn... Im proud of myself. You all can do it! Try to replace anxiety with something it doesnt like. Courage, hope, love, kindness.... We intend to forget there are other feelings to when anxiety wants to take over... As shaan says: It wants your attention so you forget about the other good feelings in this world.

[@uditapaul3811]

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[@shalinidas8627]

When i try to sleep of just lay down closing my eyes and let the sleep come or any thoughts come my heart pounds little bit hard or skip a beat (am not able to differentiate it) and my mind goes in alert mode makes my body jerk and wakes me up and it continues for as long as i stay in bed. I went to doctor a psychiatrist and they gave me pill i started taking that but i don't want to get dependent on it. So what should i do in that case.

[@dallaslemieux4161]

Could be your adrenals are taxed…. I deal with this..

[@thribhuvankj1304]

I have same simtoms

[@thribhuvankj1304]

Are you sleeping now

[@pierrecohenmusic]

Same symptoms here

[@janice234]

I also just watched the YT channel "Therapy in a Nutshell". She said that you shouldn't stay in bed if you can't sleep. She says get up and do something boring, so you don't associate bed with sleep struggles. I guess try both and see what works.

[@neveshizzle]

What about fragmented sleep? So you fall asleep but wake up every hour or 2?

[@eleanorrigby5759]

Weirdly enough as a chronic insomniac I’d kill for this. Id love to have some sort of sleep and wake up every couple of hours, isn’t it strange how we all long for something, and the facts are if we stopped we’d just be fine? 😂

[@eleanorrigby5759]

Also by the way I think you aren’t understanding the video properly, you can apply the “if I sleep I sleep, If I don’t I don’t, to your situation too… just change the words… “if I get back to sleep I do, if I don’t get back to sleep, I don’t”… ?

[@neveshizzle]

@@eleanorrigby5759 it turned out to be a hormonal thing for me. Not producing enough progesterone to stay asleep.

[@jaxdomi5795]

@@neveshizzleim experiencing the same. what meds are you taking? I wake up every hour or two but i havent seen a doctor cos they think its just anxiety

[@nancyrussell6598]

THAT TAKES THE PRESSURE OFF@@eleanorrigby5759

[@pranavgaikwad3245]

You really cover topics that I faced

[@Champignon1000]

a couple times i have woken up from feeling dizzy, so weird. like a sudden dizziness that wakes me up. and then im fine after. - i dont even feel anxious and ocd anymore. i just get these weird symptoms when i t comes to sleep. - also sudden rush in my stomcah like rollercoaster. or out of breath feeling. even pulsating tinitus sometimes.

[@byebyepanic]

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[@albertojovani444]

I am watching this video and it is me I can't sleep at all but I will try this method from now on thanks for that video Shaan

[@mriko3970]

How are you know? How you managed ?

[@giovanniespino3384]

You doing better?

[@lravikiran88]

What is common with all of people below is not having patience..... Look every day when u dont get sleep you worry Again next day same.... You must think in your brain that i will not be able to sleep for coming one month for more than 1-2 hours..... Trust me guys bu my own experience iam telling you will slowly develop sleep.... Be patient And giving 1 month of time is very good for cure ... Think if you are sleeping 2-3 presently you will sleep surely 2 hours more after 1 month...and as shaan told stay in bed and enjoy your anxiety and simply accept your thoughts without judging or problem solving.... Doing this you are training your subconscious brain that there is no harm in sleeping.....

[@hasnainjamil5585]

I feels weakness of brain, sleep problems, panic attacks trigger while do not concentrate on topic during studies, it makes my feets panic, my whole body starts blinking, recomend some instructions should i take help from Psychotherapy or psychiatry.

[@anfyro8059]

I was having these symptoms too.. how are you now?

[@BGibbo]

@@anfyro8059hi what’s ur insta let’s talk

[@samsam-nh9xi]

I dudnt sleept well since more than 3 years ago...im not anxious too much ...may be it some hidden fear from future. I dunno how to fix it.

[@TheAshrafDali]

Was this insomnia after taking some medication?

[@Limitlessluckyunique888]

how is your sleep now?

[@zeropoint7665]

CBT-I says you should get up out of bed if you cant sleep....now im confused

[@vassybaby16]

CBT is awful. It literally makes you avoid the problem. You need to lay in bed and accept the negative feelings. I got over insomnia this way. You pretty much have to let the anxiety do whatever it wants to you but don’t engage with it. Example if you get intrusive thoughts don’t be like “omg these thoughts will make me not sleep or what if these are true.” Just say ok whatever to them. I use to get jolts and now I just go eh there is another jolt. I eventually fall asleep every night 😂 I went from sleeping 1-3hrs a night to 6-8 again

[@VIBEWITHWASIM]

Can anyone suggest me a good safe sleeping pill...?

[@Bewaterbro]

This is my current situation.💔

[@fiesta5840]

The same here. .so frightening

[@HealedRyo]

Thank you

[@shorfan]

Hypnic jerks when trying to sleep sucks so much … 😪

[@BrendaHall1]

They go away after a while.

[@shorfan]

@@BrendaHall1 been having them for months.. 😖 but maybe its my response i have to work on

[@puffymuffin9064]

I been having it long time

[@eleanorrigby5759]

@@BrendaHall1 hi Brenda, like the sleep school coach channel and Daniel Ericsson’s book details… they don’t ‘go away’ … you shouldn’t say this to someone as a response although i assume you meant well, it’s not functional or true advice. The fact is, anxiety occurs in life, for everyone, for different reasons… people with insomnia (like me) will have speed bumps, and to deny this is cruel and false. Please get off this comment section unless you’re going to think more about what you post. I’ve read about 15 posts on this video alone that are literally so damaging and untrue, just stop!

[@dallaslemieux4161]

They do go away… sounds like your adrenals may be taxed, and your cortisol could be high from stress etc… natural health products can help with this… magnesium bisglycinate can help too

[@andrea_echaluce4482]

My only concern is insomnia

[@shorfan]

Did you resolve yours?

[@andrea_echaluce4482]

@@shorfan yes like what shaan have said u recover not by how u feel but by how u respond 2 anxiety

[@ramshazawar3227]

Same

[@andrea_echaluce4482]

@@ramshazawar3227 of all the anxiety symptoms sleep or insomnia is the scary for you?

[@ramshazawar3227]

Yes if i sleep i stay normal

[@thomasmahoney8104]

The wind in the background is a killer. It distracts from what you are saying

[@byebyepanic]

Thomas Mahoney agreed. Didn’t realize until editing. I will carry a lav mic for future outdoor videos. Let me know if you need clarification on a specific part.

[@vinylg3421]

@@byebyepanic I enjoyed the wind noise, because I haven't been out in the open since long because of my anxiety 😅

[@marthasisco9678]

​@@vinylg3421you doing better

[@garysimone4977]

Nothing new here.... chances are much will not work..but good luck

[@chiragsharma5050]

Piss off

[@eleanorrigby5759]

One thing I’ve realised is, you know the nights when you’ve been up that long that you physically crash, that’s because your brain has been pushed so far, that it can not care anymore about the worries of sleeplessness… I’ve been trying really hard to remind myself of that, and that I literally can fix this by remembering to let go of the worries of how bad I’ll feel, how miserable it is etc… just like the brain eventually does whether we like it or not. Hope this helps, Eleanor, a chronic insomniac.

[@garysimone4977]

@eleanorrigby5759 very very true. How goes it ??

[@Sirie7206]

Did you ever stop drinking coffee?

[@HeatherWaymeyer]

Heather3314 I can always fall asleep, but cannot sleep past 2 hours. Then I get little 10 minute snaps til around 4 am, then awake from then on. The problem is, my anxiety is getting worse without sleeping. I even take klonazepam or Ambien, and still no success. It's brutal. I am totally caffeine free, no lights, don't know what wakes me.

[@Itsmoeski]

How long has this been going on?

[@susancarrasco8904]

Heather I have the same problem but sleep 1 to 1 and half hrs more then you and take same medications but I'm trying leave everything to God