Am I the only who dread going to sleep?

I mean, is not like I suffer constant nightmares neither I suffer from insomnia. But this has become a new modality for me lately. Usually when I go to sleep I just don't want to. It is like a way of me trying to hold back time( as if I could *sigh*). I just fear the next day to come. The funny part is that my life is not that exciting for me to be waiting for something else or weird to happen, it is just the same old routinge so I know that everything will be just more of the same thing all over again. But still, there's that part of me that doesn't want to go back to sleep as a way to avoid a whole new day of preocupations about, What will it be like? Will I handle myself well without feeling weird? Or simply just overthinking every single situation. It doesn't really matter if I feel tired or very sleepy, I just try to prolong bedtime.

I don't dread going to sleep (yet). I dread walking up.

I used to. I hated going to bed because it meant I had to wake up and face another day. And it was always hard to push out the endless chatter in my head so I'd lie awake just thinking...Plus I'm not a very good sleeper naturally. I wake up all the time.

Once my doctor and I worked out meds that helped me sleep without totally knocking me out, gabapentin (and helped with the anxiety, too) I don't mind going to sleep and sometimes I even look forward too it.

A good nights sleep is so important for us anxious people, try to get it whatever way you can.

I definitely feel that way if there's some kind of activity or errand the next day that I'm especially scared of. I want to try to hold back time before the next day kicks in.

i have the same problem. All i can think about is how another day of my life has been wasted, and that i have to face a day of anxiety and depression again. I wish i could wake up and realise that all this crap has just been a nghtmare.

I like going to sleep. It's one of my favorite things to do.

I do have some insomnia though, but melatonin helps.

I genuinely dread going to sleep at night. I try to stall it for as long as possible. I just go through this very bizarre state of dreams and emotions which drain me both mentally and physically. I hallucinate in my sleep too, and if I have a really bad dream it pretty much destroys my willpower to survive the day ahead. So yeah, I don't really like going to sleep at all.

You need to make the best out of your day, in order to be able to say "I had a good, productive day" before sleeping, otherwise the pressure will keep building up. Be present. The past is gone and the future isn't now. It's what you do today that matters. Go for a jog, challenge yourself to go a little extra mile, go somewhere you usually dread going, make someone's day better. By doing these things, your mind heals.

have you ever tried valerian root or melatonin

when i was younger, in high school i used to dread going to sleep because the next day would just be another day to force myself through..i dont dread sleep anymore..

I don't dread going to sleep as such, but when I go through bad patches I dread going to bed as I tend to suffer with anxiety as I'm trying to fall asleep... Usually I'm bothered by tightness in my muscles, especially my chest and arm muscles, which in turn make me worry about having a heart problem or feeling like I can't breathe... Or I'll jolt into full consciousness just as I'm starting to drift off, with my heart pounding and a choking feeling... It's definitely only caused by stress, but knowing that doesn't really help at the time... I also tend to have nightmares and frequently wake up when I'm going through a bad patch, so I tend to dread that too. I find putting lavender oil on a tissue inside my pillowcase and drinking chamomile and peppermint tea tend to help a little...

recluse said:

i have the same problem. All i can think about is how another day of my life has been wasted, and that i have to face a day of anxiety and depression again. I wish i could wake up and realise that all this crap has just been a nghtmare.

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^ Exactly this. This is what I feel usually. I have a problem with the fact that days are passing by and I'm not doing much about it. I'm a student and usually the school work keeps me pretty busy and does not give me enough time to think of anything else but when it doesn't(which is usually before going to sleep) I have this whole spare time to overthink things and this is where it gets bad. Because all the things that I haven't done so far and that I'll like to accomplish comes to mind but they seem so unlikely to happen. I'm not saying that they won't, I know is possible to make them happen but I fear constantly that I won't be able to. The anxiety part doesn't worries me that much because it doesn't trigger up unless I have to face an entirely new situation. Those new situation can get me a little bit anxious or very anxious depending on the situation itself. But if is something that I'm used to do, it doesn't matter. I handle myself pretty well. The depression part I DO relate very easily because my sadness or irritability ignites when I least expected and even my family says that sometimes I have this random changes in attitude and that I don't even notice when it happens.

Starry said:

I don't dread going to sleep as such, but when I go through bad patches I dread going to bed as I tend to suffer with anxiety as I'm trying to fall asleep... Usually I'm bothered by tightness in my muscles, especially my chest and arm muscles, which in turn make me worry about having a heart problem or feeling like I can't breathe... Or I'll jolt into full consciousness just as I'm starting to drift off, with my heart pounding and a choking feeling... It's definitely only caused by stress, but knowing that doesn't really help at the time... I also tend to have nightmares and frequently wake up when I'm going through a bad patch, so I tend to dread that too. I find putting lavender oil on a tissue inside my pillowcase and drinking chamomile and peppermint tea tend to help a little...

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Ohh Starry, thanks for sharing. I haven't gone through that level of anxiety but I do start to sweat a lot or feel my pulse accelerate gradually if I have to face a new situation on the following day, which keeps me distracted and interrupts my sleep. Sometimes I can't sleep simply because my mind is going through a million of thoughts by the minute and it keeps quite active. Again, this is if I have an anticipation of an activity the next day that I know could put me in a vulnerable situation. Like when I took an acting class the past semester. I remember the day before, I couldn't sleep at all because my mind had a lot of weird thoughts going on, about how everything could turn out. As the days went by, I got more used to it but everytime I had to go on stage to do something I could feel my pulse accelerating little by little.

Jemo said:

I definitely feel that way if there's some kind of activity or errand the next day that I'm especially scared of. I want to try to hold back time before the next day kicks in.

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I can relate to this. I do this quite often too when there's a certain unknown situation I have to confront the next day.

I really try to avoid going to bed as long as possible, I don't dread falling asleep per say (love sleeping) I dread not waking up. I expose myself to potential failure when I go to sleep since I may not wake up in time which, how stupid it may sound, terrifies me. So I end up postponing going to bed, leading to either no sleep at all or a few hours which makes the risk of not waking up in time higher. I often have to wake up really early because of travels and prefer not sleeping compared to potential failure.

I actually like sleep now that I have meds to help it.