Something I don't think I suffered from before is morning anxiety. It has really only started happening this past week. I also notice it only seems to happen on mornings I wake up naturally without an alarm. On mornings I have had a rough night and need to be wakened by the alarm I wake up straight away, jump out of bed am in the shower starting my morning and no anxiety, I am just on the ball from get go. Yesterday for example woke naturally around 5am, lay in bed and just felt this mixture of dread/sadness/anxiety, I lay there and played with my phone hoping to shift but couldn't. Because the weather yesterday was so horrible I lay about all day and it was evening time before this lifted.
I think I read this is because of cortisol starts getting released prior to waking naturally, I am taking it that when the alarm wakes the cortisol doesn't get a chance to get released? I don't remember feeling this way before anxiety issues, I am assuming the cortisol response was always there I am just in a more aware state of my body now because of anxiety.
Whats your thoughts?