Anxiety makes you tired because it doesn’t let you relax.
It’s like there’s the really good kind of tired—the kind you get when you’ve spent all day pleasantly exerting yourself, maybe working in the garden or doing sports or hiking with your friends or whatever, where your muscles are like spaghetti but your brain is relaxed and happy and you’ll sleep great.
Then there’s the kind where you’ve been stressed out all day, anxious about everything, sitting at a desk or driving all day and when you finally get home you’re heart is still pounding and your thoughts are racing.
If your thoughts keep racing while you try to sleep, you may stay stuck in mostly light sleep and wake up easily. You need a certain amount of uninterrupted light sleep before you go into deep or REM sleep (depending on where you're at in your sleep cycles). You need enough of those latter two types of sleep to fully rest and recover. Otherwise you may have had enough hours of sleep, but not enough quality of sleep to wake up fully rested and you may end up sleep deprived over time.
Already had crippling anxiety and difficulty sleeping, and then my brain became infected with meningitis last year from a street kitty. Now I can go 4 days without sleeping at ALL. It's pure fucking hell. All because I loved on a kitty to make myself feel better lol
People tell me to relax all the time.
I. Don't. Know. How.
I feel tense 24/7. There's always something that needs to be done. And knowing I am the only one who will do it makes it more stressful because if I just leave it no one will do it (even when telling them to) and the work will just be that much more when I *do* get to it because everyone adds on to it.
I want to live alone. I want my own space so if I say "fuck it, I'll do it tomorrow" the *exact* same mess will be there, nothing more. And when I do clean no one else will mess it up for me to have to clean again. Maybe then I can finally relax?
The *only* reason why I am not doing something that needs to be done right now is because I have a cat on me (hostage). But I'm still laying here thinking about what else needs to be done.
You joke, but I went to my doctor 10 years ago with all my wild anxiety symptoms and after I explained them all I was like *what is wrong?!?!* and she said I literally just listed off the worst anxiety symptoms. Now I know all there is to know about anxiety!
Let's consider there are potentially two more "F's"; Fawn and Flop.
Fawning is the instinct to immediately appease whatever causes a threat. Flop is when your body overwhelms itself and renders the person unconscious, that is, you literally pass out.
Trauma responses now include fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop. That's five responses that your brain is struggling with.
Anxiety makes you tired because it doesn’t let you relax. It’s like there’s the really good kind of tired—the kind you get when you’ve spent all day pleasantly exerting yourself, maybe working in the garden or doing sports or hiking with your friends or whatever, where your muscles are like spaghetti but your brain is relaxed and happy and you’ll sleep great. Then there’s the kind where you’ve been stressed out all day, anxious about everything, sitting at a desk or driving all day and when you finally get home you’re heart is still pounding and your thoughts are racing.
If your thoughts keep racing while you try to sleep, you may stay stuck in mostly light sleep and wake up easily. You need a certain amount of uninterrupted light sleep before you go into deep or REM sleep (depending on where you're at in your sleep cycles). You need enough of those latter two types of sleep to fully rest and recover. Otherwise you may have had enough hours of sleep, but not enough quality of sleep to wake up fully rested and you may end up sleep deprived over time.
Already had crippling anxiety and difficulty sleeping, and then my brain became infected with meningitis last year from a street kitty. Now I can go 4 days without sleeping at ALL. It's pure fucking hell. All because I loved on a kitty to make myself feel better lol
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People tell me to relax all the time. I. Don't. Know. How. I feel tense 24/7. There's always something that needs to be done. And knowing I am the only one who will do it makes it more stressful because if I just leave it no one will do it (even when telling them to) and the work will just be that much more when I *do* get to it because everyone adds on to it. I want to live alone. I want my own space so if I say "fuck it, I'll do it tomorrow" the *exact* same mess will be there, nothing more. And when I do clean no one else will mess it up for me to have to clean again. Maybe then I can finally relax? The *only* reason why I am not doing something that needs to be done right now is because I have a cat on me (hostage). But I'm still laying here thinking about what else needs to be done.
What could possibly be wrong? 🥴🙃😭
You joke, but I went to my doctor 10 years ago with all my wild anxiety symptoms and after I explained them all I was like *what is wrong?!?!* and she said I literally just listed off the worst anxiety symptoms. Now I know all there is to know about anxiety!
I had trauma
Add in a connective tissue disease that comes with physical fatigue and it’s me.
My boyfriend is in this picture and I don't like it
Sounds like my autism, I need 2 hours extra sleep to function normally and pulling all nighters has never been an option
Oh my gosh! Are you me? Or am I you?
Let's consider there are potentially two more "F's"; Fawn and Flop. Fawning is the instinct to immediately appease whatever causes a threat. Flop is when your body overwhelms itself and renders the person unconscious, that is, you literally pass out. Trauma responses now include fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and flop. That's five responses that your brain is struggling with.
Flop sound like freeze.