I've been waking up an hour or so after I
go to bed at night and I feel very weird.
My mind is telling me to get up and panic
and pace around the house looking out
windows or get up and watch TV or read a
book or magazine and I'm so tired I just
want to sleep. Sometimes I feel like I'm 3
different people all shouting stuff out.
This is happening either every night or at
least 3 or 4 times a week. I am so tired
and I need sleep. I fall asleep in the
chair or on the couch and I'm fine until I
go to bed. I almost dread going to bed.
When I do sleep I have weird hidious
dreams that make no sense at all. I try
and stay in bed but I get dizzy feeling so
I jump up and pace around the house or
watch TV for an hour and then I go back to
bed and sleep until it's time to get up.
Can this be from perimenapause or just
plain anxiety? My health is good and I
can't take any medicine cause that makes
me freak out worse. During the day time I
am fine. What is happening to me? Thank
you.
It doesn’t seem that this particular
sleeping problem is due to perimenopause
because your cycles are still regular.
Instead, the problem could be banal: maybe
you are going to bed too early and,
therefore, you can’t fall asleep. Or:
perhaps your bed might be not comfortable
since you can asleep on a chair or on the
couch. It seems also that your problem
does not affect you very much because you
can still sleep during the night and you
don’t feel sleepiness during the day.
However, if you'd like to pursue the
matter, you might try to talk to a mental
health professional that treats anxiety
with alternative therapies other than
medications. It might take some looking
around, but these professionals exist.
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