@esikora

Hello and welcome to senior anxiety 😬…I can empathize with you and offer my own experience with these awful early morning fears…when I get these which is every morning and sometimes in the evening after I wake up from a nap, I try to get up and get going..doing something if no other than walking up and down my corridor and fixing some coffee in the morning and a coke or root beer in the evening…I just finished my appointment with a psychiatrist and left before the appointment was over…we were in accord that I had been mistaken in thinking 💭 she could offer couch therapy..she kept going over my meds and this became tedious and I told her so..downhill from there..anyway I’m taking .05 Klonopin at night and sometimes I will split a .05 and take it if my anxiety and intrusive worry starts to give me problems…I have always wanted to be apart of a group of individuals that all of us seniors could get or feel or relate or share with our common bond of the morning anxiety 😥 I am 77 and have been so lucky 🍀 and I hope you will be ok..and you will..because here, it is good, and a good place to come to is getting harder to find…some wonderful people, and mentors share and respond here..I can feel what you’re going through…but you will do ok 👍🙏. pvctom

I suffer from the same extreme morning anxiety. I wake around 3:30 and feel the cortisol pumping into my chest and stomach area. It started about 2 years ago, after my dad died and family issues were stirred up. I am desperate for help with this, I do take sleeping medication, but it doesn’t help with these early awakening and dread. I am very physically active, practice yoga, meditate several times daily and push myself into socializing with others. I would appreciate any help with this. I might add that our bedroom is cool and dark at night.