EP 225 - Sleep Related Anxiety: Three Common Fears And Themes

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Many people dealing with anxiety disorders experience problems sleeping from time to time. Many anxious people also wind up stuck in mental loops where they obsess about sleep and worry excessively about not sleeping and not sleeping "properly". This can result in a few common themes that revolve around disastrous feared outcomes associated with sleep or sleep distrubances. "If I don't sleep enough, I can't heal and will never get better!" "If I don't sleep enough, I will seriously harm...

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0:00.0	This week on The Anxious Truth, we're going to talk about something you've been waiting to hear about, and that is
0:04.4	Sleep Anxiety. Anxiety's tempted around sleep, sleeping, and not sleeping, so let's get to it.
0:19.3	Hello everybody, welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is episode 225 of the podcast. We are recording
0:24.5	at September of 2022. I am Drew Lynn Salada, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. This is the
0:29.9	podcast that covers all things, anxiety, anxiety disorders, and anxiety recovery. If you are new here
0:35.6	to the podcast or the YouTube channel and just sort of stumbled in by accident, welcome. I'm
0:39.6	really glad you're here. I hope you find the content useful and helpful in some way. If you are
0:44.3	returning listener or viewer, welcome back. I am always happy that you guys are here. Thank you
0:48.6	so much for your continued support. So this week we're going to cover a topic that people have
0:53.1	been asking me to cover for such a long time. And because I am not the best sleeper anyway, I didn't
0:58.0	think really I should talk about this because I'm not really the best guy to give sleep advice, but
1:02.6	you know what? In the end, it's not really about my sleeping. It's about your sleeping and how you're
1:06.6	viewing it and what your relationship has become when it comes to sleep or not sleeping. So this
1:11.8	week we're going to go into it. We're going to do sleep anxiety. But before we get into the meat
1:15.2	of the episode, I'm going to remind you as I always do that The Anxious Truth is more than just this,
1:20.7	you know what? I'm not going to do I'm not going to do that this week. I'm kind of doing it. I'm
1:26.0	not doing the pitch this week. What? Why not? Because I do the pitch every week and I'm pretty sure
1:32.0	that they're tired of it by now. Come on. You don't know that. I would be tired of hearing it if I
1:37.2	was them. You're ridiculous. You're not going to tell them about the books you wrote. No. The
1:42.4	free morning newsletter. No. No mention of all the free social media content. The Distressed
1:46.9	Tolerance webinar. The Facebook group. No. No. And no. And honestly, now you're just kind of being
1:52.6	annoying. You're the worst. Not even a mention of your website at TheAnxiousTruth.com. I can't
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