Genuinely I’m finding it soo hard recently.
Tonight it’s nearly 3am I’ve been trying to sleep since around 10pm.
When I first layed down I could feel my heart beat cuz I was laying on my side, then I tried to push it to the side and out of my mind becuase I really needed to sleep and then the music I was playing started talking about death. Then my mind, of what I thought was happening, started to just get worse and then I got what I thought was a headache and numbness and convinced myself I needed to call 999 or 111. I didn’t becuase it felt ridiculous obviously.
I tried to go back to sleep and then jolted myself back up once I was getting more comfortable. Now I’m just too scared, everytime I go to lie down my heart just starts feeling tight or my head starts pounding. And it’s so annoying becuase I know it’s not anything becuase I get the same thing everytime I’m overthinking and feeling anxious but I can’t do anything about it and it’s so frustrating i genuinely feel ridiculous.
How do I deal with this ??
My doctors gave me sleeping pills however I’m too scared to take them incase I get any side effects incase I have undiagnosed health issues.
Does anyone have an actual useful tips. That don’t include medication. I work 10+hr shifts so going to work on 1-3hours sleep causes lots of mistakes.
Or any useful ways you’ve been able to calm yourself down after the main panic attack to prevent another one.
Genuinely I feel pathetic, I just don’t know what to do.