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overwhelming anxiety at night

ive never had problems sleeping before the last month or so, now i only sleep a couple of hours a night. i just get anxious about anything, emails i might have worded badly, things i might have left on, my career, my personal image, the fact im not sleeping. this is going to f__ me over in the end, how am i supposed to function today when i havent even been to sleep yet.

Reply 1

Sounds like you need a holiday to be honest, just to take your minds of things.
The poor guy/gal probably is on holiday. I get this too over the holidays - nothing to do, no uni pressure, all purpose leaves me, and thus I don't expend much energy during the day, sleep bad at night, and in general become anxious/grumpy about stuff. It goes once I'm back in a uni routine. Maybe that's it?
Reply 3
I'm exactly the same, and emotions (especially negative) are magnified by 100 at night - sometimes my fear ascends into a fear of dying for no apparent reason - the way to overcome it is to realise that your way of thinking triggers irrational fear but it is nothing to worry about - once you are busy it will happen far less often.