Worry in the morning

Just wondered if anyone else experiences a problem that I have that I think is linked to my SAD.

Around this time last year (before I got my lightbox) and all through the winter before, I had trouble staying asleep some mornings. As soon as I woke up (due to needing the loo, noises outside - whatever) even if it was hours before i had to get up, I'd start worrying about something. Sometimes it's something that actually needs worrying about (sorting out plans etc) but sometimes it's just stupid!

This morning I woke after only 3 hours sleep and started thinking that I had to move the car before the traffic warden arrives (which I sometimes have to do). I thought and worried until I was properly awake when I realised that the car was in the right place and didnt need moving. For the next hour I tried to get back to sleep and couldnt because I kept thinking and worrying about moving the car. It didnt need doing and didnt need worrying about but yet it would not leave my mind. As a result there was no way I could get back to sleep and I am now shattered and can hardly think straight! It's so frustrating.

I do not suffer very badly with my SAD and can keep on top with my lightbox which I am planning to start using soon, but I didnt think the weather was quite bad enough yet. I think I might give it a go - I need to sleep more!!

Does anyone else do this?

Yeah I woke at five forty a few days ago and seem to be waking before alarm (6.45) each morning. I know this is short lived though and give it a month will be struggling to wake.

I sometimes get anxious for no reason but not much this year, the 3am panic attacks I believe for me start during December.

hey ho..............

Hi,
I have just put up a post about this.. I think the weather is changing and its affecting us saddos....

About two weeks ago, I was in a my new car, thats taken my about ten years to buy / afford, (im not boasting its took forever to get.....) driving home thinking how happy and lucky I was. I was just really happy and felt great...

Now I feel worried and anxiety kicking in about nothing, ive had some crying attacks and feeling crappy and it just dont make sense.. suddenly the worlds a pile of pap...? Nothing has changed from a couple of weeks ago, nothing at all, except my stupid head?


Ive slummed around the house for a couple of days feeling sorry for myself... tomorrow im going to make myself go into town for a walk in the sunshine presuming there is a bit.

So what about anyone else, your sleep patterns sound like they are turning to sad mode what about your mood swings?
Love Gailx

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I was just really happy and felt great.................

Now I feel worried and anxiety kicking in about nothing, ive had some crying attacks and feeling crappy and it just dont make sense.. suddenly the worlds a pile of pap...?
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Love Gailx

Yes Gail, I completely understand. In fact a wee while ago I put in a post asking if anyone else on the forum actually had a huge sense of euphoria just before their black dogs arrived. I have to say though that no one responded... :(

Late August/early September annually (and again in March, but that's another story) I have anything between 3 days and a week of a blissful euphoric state when absolutely all is well with the world and, well, everything! It's only in the last 10 years or so that I have noticed that this euphoria has a slight taint to it, and realise it is because this happiness actually spells out in capital letters, impending all consuming gloom and despair which literally arrives overnight.

This little spell of euphoria is so pleasant that I have naturally never thought to complain about it to my GP, who would! Anyway, it appears it is an integral part of the diagnosis. This year the euphoria arrived about 1 August and by 8 August total despair and despondency landed on me, I became a shadow of my former self, and had no choice but to do something about it.... off to the GP, holding out little hope, I went. I am now trying to work with being bipolarSAD, am taking Prozac which is levelling me out (rather than making me feel good), and am waiting for a referral :roll:

Has this happy state happened to you before, just prior to your gloom? Does it happen for a second time in a year for you, as mine does in March? 'parently all part and parcel of the bipolar issue. Like the 'winter blahs', the 'winter blues' and full blown 'SAD', bipolar also appears to have varying degrees from only just noticeable to being hospitalised.

All interesting stuff, not something I really enjoy talking about, but just in case someone else out there finds this whole thing bewildering and a total drag, all bits and snippets of info are good I guess. Note though, I am on a huge learning curve .... any other input on the subject would be appreciated.

Take care, none of us are alone in our dissimilar similarity. At least there is somewhere to come and chat. I have said things to you lot I have not dreamt of telling most of my acquaintances. The world is a stage and it's my job to act as me ....

Okay, ya i can see your point.