[Crook32]

Has anyone ever wake up to extreme anxiety that you feel in your stomach and head. Almost on verge of a panic attack. It is so bad I have to taken klonopin right away and do a lot of deep breathing. I get anxiety at night because I never know how well I will sleep. I just don’t understand the severe anxiety in the morning. Is it the depression causing it?

[*Beth*]

To me, anxiety is the worst hell on earth. What I have learned in recent years is that severe anxiety is often part of dysphoric mania.

[wolftrap]

I'm so sorry you are suffering from anxiety. It can be crippling. What you describe sounds very familiar to me. My psychiatrist put me on Zoloft and that helped immensely. I recommend talking to your doctor. I hope this episode ends soon.

[Crook32]

I can’t take Zoloft I got serotonin from it. Actually can’t take any antidepressant. Sleep meds don’t work either. I am going to try and take klonopin right when I wake up and try to knock down the anxiety.

[NaoSky]

Originally Posted by Crook32

I can’t take Zoloft I got serotonin from it. Actually can’t take any antidepressant. Sleep meds don’t work either. I am going to try and take klonopin right when I wake up and try to knock down the anxiety.

I’m sorry you are going through this. Sometimes I can’t tell if I have more depression or anxiety. I get the pain in my stomach too almost every day. I try to think I away and play games on my phone till I don’t feel it anymore. I don’t know which one keeps me having insomnia either. I’m lucky if I can get 4 hours of sleep and most of the time it’s broken up. Sleep meds give me the same amount sometimes less so I stopped taking them.

[Crazy Hitch]

My extreme anxiety is when I’m manic psychotic and thinking things that aren’t there. When I’m delusional. Although I’m quite sure I’ve had anxiety during depression.

[FluffyDinosaur]

Yeah, I get that too. It wakes me up in the middle of the night, and I also get it in the mornings sometimes and throughout the day. I think it's associated with the depression but like others I've also noticed that it tends to be the worst during dysphoric mania. My depression tends to drift from "just" depression towards agitated depression or dysphoric mania from time to time for reasons I'm not sure of.

It does make me feel on the verge of a panic attack sometimes. My heart races, I might get really cold for no reason, and sometimes it makes me too nauseated to eat. There's also a lot of derealization but that's not unique to panic attacks for me. Also I get a lot of back and neck pains from the tension, and lately it's caused me to start clenching my jaw down really tight all the time without noticing it. I'm afraid I'm going to wear down my teeth if that doesn't stop.

Often when it's at its worst, the anxiety is mixed in with severe irritability so I just feel like going into a rage and destroying everything around me. Sometimes the anxiety and the irritability can become hard to distinguish from each other. Trying to keep all that down with no way to release it is hell on earth.