giddy
07-03-17, 06:47
Hi everyone
I'm having huge problems sleeping, I feel fine until I switch the lights out and close my eyes and then my stomach starts churning and doesn't stop! Last night was the worst yet, I was up several times to the toilet and also dry retching. I got very little sleep maybe an hour.
It all started when my 21 year old cat died at home 3 weeks ago. I has a minor panic as he was dying and had trouble sleeping for the week after, however things are getting worse and not better. Last week just as I was dropping off the phone rang 3 times in a row, but no call was registered so that freaked me out a bit, then I realised it happened exactly 2 weeks after my cat died and at roughly the same time, so that freaked me out even more!
I now can't sleep at all for thinking about it, I know it's really silly but I keep thinking it was my cat making the phone ring and it's scaring me and all those irrational thoughts are flying around my head now. During the day my anxiety goes and I can rationalise with myself (I'm sure my cat could find a different way to contact me than the phone if he wanted to!!) but at night around the time he died it comes back and stops me sleeping.
I don't want this to escalate and am worried the anxiety will start to creep back into my daily life.
Thanks for reading.
I'm having huge problems sleeping, I feel fine until I switch the lights out and close my eyes and then my stomach starts churning and doesn't stop! Last night was the worst yet, I was up several times to the toilet and also dry retching. I got very little sleep maybe an hour.
It all started when my 21 year old cat died at home 3 weeks ago. I has a minor panic as he was dying and had trouble sleeping for the week after, however things are getting worse and not better. Last week just as I was dropping off the phone rang 3 times in a row, but no call was registered so that freaked me out a bit, then I realised it happened exactly 2 weeks after my cat died and at roughly the same time, so that freaked me out even more!
I now can't sleep at all for thinking about it, I know it's really silly but I keep thinking it was my cat making the phone ring and it's scaring me and all those irrational thoughts are flying around my head now. During the day my anxiety goes and I can rationalise with myself (I'm sure my cat could find a different way to contact me than the phone if he wanted to!!) but at night around the time he died it comes back and stops me sleeping.
I don't want this to escalate and am worried the anxiety will start to creep back into my daily life.
Thanks for reading.