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I was just wondering if anyone had any ES&H to share on the topic of anxiety and depression in the morning?
I have this peculiar feeling, particularly on Mondays, a feeling of impending doom and hopelessness. I hate to get up. I normally try at least to do my daily reading, in an attempt to shake it.
Has anyone else expereinced something similar? I'd love to hear how you dealt with it. Does it get better?
I forced myself to think positive , wondering what wonderful thing was going to happen that day -- somedays it was as simple as not thinking negative thoughts .. If I expect doom you can bet I will find it eventually or I will make it happen self sabatage worked well , expect positive and anything is possible..
yes I have woke up feeling anxious and chewed up, I like to think I am a positive person and always try to look on the brightside, I can and do have the ability to work myself out of a sad negative state of mind, however I have just taken myself off to the doctors because I was struggling, I think I have been depressed because now after only one week on some type of prozac, all of my problems remain but I am feeling lighter and able to cope much better and the chewed up feeling has gone, it might be worth just having a word with your general practioner, if it is depression you might need a liitle bit of help, no crime in that, takecare of you
Hi, Oh, I know the feeling, but I always got it on Friday or Saturday, knowing the weekend was coming. Maybe you are getting it on Monday because it is your body/mind saying, "no more". I never knew I was always 'waiting for the other shoe to drop' until I was in Al-Anon and it came up in a meeting. I had one of those ah-ha moments.
I would agree with all the other posters to take the time to read/meditate/pray, or do whatever it takes to take your mind out of that place. Even if you eat your breakfast with the tv on a mindless sitcom, not the negative news reports, it will make a difference.
I wake up every single morning with that feeling.....I hate it! and all night long i dream of things I don't want to dream about....i have to literally force my brain to think of other things. Sometimes music will help, sometimes I jump online and read alanon posts or facebook posts, its very hard to get out of that mode, and I don't know how long this will go on, it's been going on for two years now....but then it took me 20 years to get to this place, 20 years of pain, so I don't expect it all to go away over night..... I would check into depression and getting on meds, but I dont have any health insurance, but if you have the option, I'd check into it!
I deal with this all the time, this morning I was hit real hard by anxiety.
I got into the bathroom (so my teen son could not hear me) and I talk out loud to myself. I tell myself to deal with what I have to deal with only for today, try to put out of my mind what I am thinking may or may not happen.
I think about simple things, get dressed, housework that I may need to get done, what I can pick up a the grocery store and fix. Look for something interesting to watch on TV or something I can read.
I take Xanax when it get so overwhelming that I start shaking, I get this way in the night too, I have very vivid dreams and if the dreams are distrubing, which many are, I have to get up and walk around the room for awhile. I count blessings and I pray out loud.
I hate living this way, I remember a time when I was full of hope and had enjoyment in my life, sleep was sweet and in the mornings I would lie in bed and look forward to my day going over what I needed to do.
Aloha Jean...I learned a long time ago from within the program to do many things as alternatives to waking up and feeling depressed and some of them are; remembering that feelings are choices...I can choose to feel anything other than or even depression. If I don't take responsibility for what I think than my brain will be free to take over the job and might just let my emotions write the script.
When I go to bed I set myself up to how I want to wake up in the morning...I take responsiblility for my mood and my condition rather than just leave it up to negative default or accident.
I learned to make gratitude list a habit and a default in my life when depression wants to suck me down the toilet. Haven't been down there for a while by accident or choice. Program works when you work it. ((((hugs))))
.. If I expect doom you can bet I will find it eventually or I will make it happen self sabatage worked well , expect positive and anything is possible.. 