Sleep, Anxiety, and Insomnia: How to Sleep Better When You're Anxious

How to stop worry about my sleep? I always wake up at 4 am, and so hard to go back to sleep. and worry that not enough sleep. I go to bed about 10 pm, so only 6 hrs sleep. I’m pregnant and worry that I need at least 8 to 10 hrs sleep if less than that I feel so extremely tired. My brain just keep thinking about a lot of stuff while I’m lying in bed from 4 am to 7 am.

The first little bit of what you said described me so well it almost screamed, im only 15 and i have severe anxiety and have had it for a while.

What if the only thing I'm worried about is the lack of sleep I'm going to get and how screwed I am for tomorrow because it's 2 hours past when I was supposed to sleep. And then the more I worry the longer it takes to sleep and the more I worry and it spirals.

It’s literally 2 AM for me on a school day and I am so stressed and not tired. I will come back to this comment to see how I was in the morning or how it went but this is literally insane for me. I have no idea what to do, the thing is when I go to sleep I’m like don’t try to think about sleeping. Don’t try to think about sleeping while thinking about it. I really need some tips guys.

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When I try to sleep, I feel like I am having dizziness and vertigo, my heart beat goes up, but then as soon as I take deep breaths, sit and relax it goes away. But this cycle never ends and I won't get proper sleep.

Thank you 🙏 I’ve been looking for a video/solution like this for months now. Thanks so much for your well explained and clear and informative video ❤

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i probably stay awake because i get anxious in the day of staying awake and then “tell myself” to fall asleep

Im scared too....

I can't stop thinking about people and when i mess up something i worry even more. I can't stop this vicious cycle of me destroying my sleep because of things to do daily, plans or people. I have to go outside with people but i keep messing everything up and then i end up not sleeping. Cancelling the plan again and again makes me feel even more bad. I want to schedule everything I do on phone and want to not use it at night but it feels like it can't be helped. After the point when I stay up too long ...My heart rate feels too loud and my breathing turns fast and too noticable, eyes turn from heavy to wide open and light.
After that point I just can't help my head, heart or lungs to relax ..and that's how I mess it up basically.

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Pls don't judge but I worry ghosts attacking me

Thank you!!!

I think my brain specifically equates beds with lying awake anxious and being really sad and scared because I notice I have a mich easier time sleeping on my couch or a chair or my desk at school when I was still in school...places where there was no pressure to fall asleep. I wish knowing that made it easier to let go of worrying about falling asleep but of course it doesn't 😂😮‍💨

As an anorexic is there a how to sleep better when you’re anorexic, I’m thinking that whenever I start to feel hungry I could just go to bed to not feel hungry and that I won’t need to eat when I wake up, I feel like this would be very useful to many girls like me who want to consistently lose weight and have people find us attractive and femboys too, I’m trying to weight 100 pounds and I’m not sure if 120 pounds is weighing too much or not for someone who is anorexic, please help me.

I don’t think abt what ganna happen the next day I think abt if I even am ganna wake up or wake up in my bed😕

I am not anxious and will not play the role that I cannot rest well in the night. Noone would who got illegally visits in the night that makes noise, and the visit has no other aim but making the noise to wake you up, put some stuff from the one place to the other, damage or steal it, so you get angry and they can say you need a therapy.

Since the beginning of this month, I started having intrusive thoughts that made me feel disgusted inside that I started thinking of killing myself. I'm still struggling, and no matter what I do, every morning I wake up, my body starts to tense up, and I shake because I know that my day will be ruined woth these intrusive thoughts. I'm tired and I wish this will all stop soon.

Gabapentin works for me!

These are all “practical things” and unresolved issues… What about FEELINGS ?

I’ve had a traumatic past couple weeks and I can’t sleep without my partner. I feel so sad and lonely and my body hurts.

This video has helped me more than two years of therapy. This has been a big issue for me for a long time and has contributed to my burnout but your clear explanation and tips has finally given me something constructive. Thank you!

Relationship problems, boy problems in general, research I have to get done, exams, presentation, final assignments, trying to lose weight, my room is a total mess, I’m breaking out, I feel hideous, I’m on my period, overthinking decisions I have made….THE LIST GOES ON AND ON AND ON. My mind is my enemy rn, I’m anxious, and losing my feeling of sleeping AND I HAVE TO BE UP IN A FRE HOURS 😭😭😭

My dad just annoys me right before I go to sleep mentioning things I need to do tomorrow which gives me extra anxiety and stress, cuz I’m just trying to take my mind off all the billions of things before bed like you mentioned lol
So many little things give me stress but it sucks the most that people I live with bother me before I sleep. I gotta try harder to avoid them when I’m trying to sleep I guess.

She makes good comments. For me this video would be more relaxing if she was not constantly moving her hands and arms.

I haven't sleep for a long time and still I'm not falling asleep 😭😭😭😭

Sometimes randomly in the middle of the night or around 1-2am I wake up with very annoying sleep anxiety to the point where I can’t sleep for a few hours, I wake up with a dry throat, shivering, fast heart rate breathing fast, and felt sick. Its so annoying but I try to find ways to settle it, what mostly helps is that I go downstairs to eat something that settles my stomach like a banana or grapes. Smth like that and it does usually help

My anxiety is a nighttime one I start thinking about me passing away in my sleep and my lil 6yr old walking up to finding me dead and her having to go with her mom that is a meth attic. My anxiety is my kid losing me 😢

Im here now, because I worry I cant sleep again, and because I worry its hard for me to sleep..

I thought its only me having this trouble, sounds insane, but now it somehow gives me reliefs that it really has an explanation and im not insane 🥹 Ive been suffering this but it like seasonal, it triggers anytime like 2-3x a year for weeks.

What if you worry about something you can’t fix?

I thought, would writing worries on non sticky post it notes be better than a list. You can write the solution on the reverse of the worry and they would be easier to physically sort out into actionable and non actionable.

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Thank you so much for this video!! So many people talk about the importance of acceptance and all this with insomnia without giving ANY ACTUAL ACTIONABLE STEP, so I just ended up not knowing where to start and also feeling bad for worrying lol. This is very helpful.

I feel like I will write news stories without feeling sleepy. What should I do, guys? Give me a solution. I have gone 5 hours without sleep. 💔💔💔😭😭😭😵‍💫😵‍💫

Im not scared my heart just beats when i try to fall asleep and i get anxiety

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This video is putting me to sleep

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I coudn,t sleep at all

She said crap!

I cant sleep at night because I'm scared that one day I will grow old and I dont know what's after death

I get worried at night for school and I worry that I won't get enough sleep I really hope this helps

I’m pretty sure this is sleep anxiety tell me of it is or isn’t but when I can’t sleep I get stressed out so bad because I feel like I’m gonna fall asleep in school and start getting bad grades but basically I start stressing out and then I worry if I will be able to fall asleep tomorrow or the day after that so yeah