Episode 147: Nocturnal Anxiety and Panic
The Hardcore Self-Help Podcast with Duff the Psych
Robert Duff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, everybody! Today's episode is going to focus on a single topic. I have gotten a lot of questions recently about nighttime anxiety and nocturnal panic, so today we are going to focus on things that you can do to help you get a little bit better sleep and some relief from that nasty anxiety that can pop up during the night.
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| 0:00.0 | Rather than fighting against the panic and trying to sleep through it, which is something that some people do, they kind of lay in bed, they're breathing heavy, they're having these swirling thoughts, they feel out of control, dissociated, the whole nine yards, they go, okay, I'm just going to kind of, I'm just going to try to sleep harder. |
| 0:15.8 | That doesn't work, right? |
| 0:17.7 | You can't push yourself through that. |
| 0:20.3 | Often it seems to be more useful to try to accept that the panic is happening, say all right, this sucks, here we go again, but I'm panicking, let's get this over with, right? |
| 0:29.2 | So instead of trying to push through it and stay asleep, just take a break from sleep. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey everybody, before we start the show, I want to make a couple disclaimers. |
| 0:37.8 | This show does cover a wide variety of topics related to mental health and life in general, |
| 0:42.1 | and some of those could be |
| 0:43.1 | sensitive for you. I want to simultaneously encourage you to be brave in |
| 0:47.0 | consuming difficult content but also respect and recognize your limitations. |
| 0:51.0 | So please use your best judgment. |
| 0:53.5 | I will never be offended if you need to skip a question or an episode entirely, but |
| 0:57.4 | feel free to feel it out, check out the episode and just see what happens. |
| 1:00.6 | If you need to skip, that's okay, but but you know feel free to give it a shot first. |
| 1:04.5 | I also need to say that while I am a psychologist I'm not your psychologist and I'm not your therapist. |
| 1:09.7 | This is not intended to be direct medical advice and you should not use this as a substitute for professional help. |
| 1:15.3 | So with those said, let's go ahead and get into the show. Okay. Okay, hello friends of all varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcasts episode 147. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, aka Duff the Psych. I make mental health content for real people just like you and today we have just a single topic episode. |
| 1:49.0 | I've gotten a lot of questions about the same topic recently which is nighttime anxiety so anxiety |
| 1:54.9 | when you're trying to go to bed and also nocturnal panic attacks when you get |
| 1:58.8 | woken up by a panic attack which is not fun so I thought today we would focus on some things you can do to help |
| 2:06.0 | relieve some of the symptoms and also get better sleep and just try to get rid of |
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