I'm contemplating checking myself into the psychiatric unit of the hospital today. I have been unable to sleep due to severe anxiety about sleeping and hypnic jerks that go on all night. The anxiety is all consuming. I went to a psychiatrist who prescribed me something that didn't work and I now have this total sense of impending doom and can't relax at all. I feel detached from reality, I get mad over everything. I don't know what to do. I want myself back but it feels impossible. I don't see how this can possibly ever go away. Has anyone else ever been this low before and hopeless feeling and come out the other side? I'm scared.