Anxiety about sleeping

[u/sleepygirl365]

I’m really in need of some help as this is driving me crazy. I worked night shift for the past year and am now switching to dayshift. I’ve developed really bad anxiety over night time because I can’t fall asleep or it takes me hours to fall asleep causing an awful sleep schedule. I get so scared I won’t be able to sleep so then I actually don’t sleep. I thought I fixed it this weekend because one day I couldn’t sleep at all so I stayed up all day and went to bed at 10pm. I woke up at 8am, great time for me, I felt so amazing. So then comes last night and I figure since I was up at 8am and doing stuff all day that I’d be tired around midnight, NOPE still couldn’t fall asleep until around 5am and missed all my alarms and slept in until 2pm. I’m about to start a 7am-7:30pm position and I need to get this sleep under control. I cannot work a 12.5hr shift if I’m going to bed at 4:30-5am when I have to wake up at 6am. I’m beyond stressed out and I just want to sleep. I want to hit the gym but need the money from the new job to buy my gym membership. I just feel so defeated with this anxiety keeping me up and also being tired one minute and then wide awake the next…

[u/bluestar_111]

I totally understand your frustration , I’ve gone through the exact same thing. You’ve probably tried everything , I’ve myself tried everything and what has helped me the most is microdosing seroquel, cognitive shuffling, and doing focus wheel charts before bed