SLEEP, INSOMNIA, FATIGUE AND ANXIETY – How to finally sleep and find night anxiety relief!

When we are anxious it can make falling asleep seem impossible and what is even worse, the night time struggles can make amplify anxiety during the day. This leads to a downward spiral that may seem to make your anxiety and sleep worse bit by bit, every single day.
In this video, I will explain how anxiety can lead to insomnia and severe fatigue and show you my tips and mindset changes that have enabled me to break free from this cycle.

During my 5 years dealing with anxiety, especially health anxiety I was entirely in the grip of my worries. Every waking minute my thoughts would go back to possible diseases that I could be suffering from and that just no doctor found out yet. All I could think of all day was my symptoms and what they could be a sign of. However, a few years into anxiety I have learned to manage my thoughts and could stop them from spiralling completely out of control and into panic attacks.
That is until night time… it was at night, right before bed, that my thoughts seem to be uncontrollable. I would lie there in my quiet room and my mind would automatically start scanning my body and focus in on physical sensations. For the most part it was my heart beat. Just listing in and soaking in every beat and how it felt like in my body made me cringe and at some point it was so intune with my body that I could even feel every single beat in my fingertips.
Other things that very very noticeable:

- I seemed to have breathing difficulties during the night
- burning skin sensations
- numbness in my fingers
- and the worst ones were these kind of brain zaps. They felt like short one second long electric shock sensations that ran down from the back of my head into my entire body and jolted me awake just as I was about to fall asleep.

The problem here is that we with anxiety feel these sensations in bed and start to excessively worry about them. When we do this repeatedly, instead of associating the bed as a safe place and sleep, our brain associates it with dread and worry time. We have imprinted this over and over again into our brains that whenever we lie back down into bed we jump right back into the high-alert mode with all its physical symptoms.
The great news is that the brain is able to unlearn and unpair these associations. We can retrain our brain and get that sleep we all need to have the energy to recover from anxiety.

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As always I hope that this video helps you understand what is going on during these very normal anxiety recovery steps.

Hopefully you will feel more at ease and can concentrate on the more important parts of anxiety recovery. Which I describe in more detail here in this playlist:

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[Veer.discovery]

You’re way more better than my psychiatrist, gorgeous description for what most of us going through.
Keep the great work!

[albertlopez]

Wow you nailed it with the “weird feeling of been exhausted and wired at the same time”

[manumyrayeboah]

I am acollege student and i live alone and this thing is ruining my life its gotten to the point that at night i literally have to listen to the videos on this channel to go to bed because its the only thing that resonate with exactly how i feel, i feel like i finally found someone who gets me and it really puts me at ease thank you so much 🙏

[Livechill]

Insomnia from anxiety sucks! And the lack of sleep doesn't help you symptom wise, that's for sure! Lucky to find these helpful videos.

[ntshuxekoshibambu]

Im dealing with fear of falling asleep now, when I doze off, fear kicks in and I think I almost died. I don't get enough sleep and I can feel it during the day. Thanks for the videos.

[sheridan]

Wow this is spot on! I remember the fear of not getting any sleep became the reason why I would not sleep. I remember googling, how many nights can a person go without sleep or can you die without sleep? I know it sounds nuts but the fear of not sleeping terrified me. Thanks so much for sharing your story. I know your videos have helped a countless number of people.

[_danroe_]

I’ve noticed that a lot of what you mention in this video relates to me a lot, though I can get to sleep and stay asleep, it’s mostly the fatigue and sleeping in that’s my problem as well as tension headaches. But the best thing I’ve taken from your videos is to just continue as normal, don’t let it interfere with my day. I can really see the improvements starting to take form now by going on long walks and frequently exercising. Your videos have been paramount to my road to recovery and I want to say thank you

[fredparmukisa]

This has been real helpful 2 weeks of insomnia felt death sentence

[amdphen]

"Odd sensation that my entire body was vibrating or trembling " ..

" Rhythmic shakes That were in sync with my heart beat. "

These words were completely in rhythmic sync with my current symptoms, current worries. These words of yours put me at ease. Thanks so much bro for another great one. ☺️

[matthewacusworth]

This video hit the nail on the head, by far the most accurate description. Very relatable...

[TopGun_-]

Listen to me... You’re doing great right now. Just let this float away on its own. You and I will do this together . Don’t resist it, just imagine you and I are going through this together. We’re all here with you right now. Concentrate on you and I working together. Keep in mind I need you through this as well. You’re doing great. We’ll wisk this thing away in no time. See it’s already evaporating. I can hardly feel anything anymore. You did awesome! I love you! There you go... the emotion you’re feeling right now is your body releasing all that pent up anxiety....THIS emotion is good...let it all out...

[rilled]

I’m reading all these and I thought I was the only one in the World like this ! You hit it for me !! Thank you !! You gave me some ideas to try ….

[funnyasiandude]

Breathing meditation being less on my phone and just enjoying nature and treating myself with love saved me from this I suffered for over a year and a half

[Wheeler-hn]

Does anyone else have that when you close your eyes seeing weird things on your imagination and just get scared? its so annoy...

[Gekkboyz]

I am crying watching this!! This is me!!! This started 3 weeks ago omfg!! It’s more reliving, I am going to beat anxiety’s ass!!!!

[USsessionsignal]

Bevel is revolutionizing how I approach training, recovery, and wellbeing and align your fitness activities ❤️🥰❣️

[KRAZEEIZATION]

The highlight of a day is when you post a new video on anxiety. Every video confirms all I’ve gone through. The bouncing book is funny but the heartbeats were ongoing for me, exactly as you describe.

[hellopookey]

God this literally fit me to a T. Looking to fight this and get better, just knowing others are experiencing this too makes me feel not so crazy. Best wishes to you all

[minubrahma]

I feel so much better knowing that i'm not the only one going through all of these.

[richardferrara]

Thank you again & happy holidays. Bringing hope to mind