fear of sleep

My 9 yr. old niece is terrified of going to sleep as she fears dying. We don't think she is pretending as she appears scared, says she sees white and black men standing in the hall and can describe what they are wearing.Her parents had the doctor give her a complete physical with blood work and EKG and physically she is fine.

I learn something new everyday...on all the baby shows I've seen, I never knew they put you to sleep at the end. I always thought you stayed awake for all of it, unless your spinal or something wouldn't take before surgery and then they would put you to sleep to do the surgery.

my grandmother actually passed in her sleep and I feel that would be the best way if it was my time. I too have an abnormal fear of dying and always have. When my appendix ruptured when I was 16 I asked the doctor if I was going to die, the fear became much worse after I had children, and then losing my mom when I was 29. A panic attack can sure make you feel like you're dying, and I agree that exercise really helps in minimizing these situations.

scarlett11 Try a sleep app that has dozens of recordings of therapists telling you how to go to sleep. You get to select which one you want to listen to, and I often listen to the same recording for months. Sometimes I fall asleep in the first few minutes but for that to work, I have to pay attention to what the speaker says.

m not to worried about it as it sits in the corner of his room and it allows him to sleep peacefully. The lightbulb has gone out a few times and he is fine. In the past he would start yelling for us to fix it if he woke up and the light was out. Now he just goes back to sleep. He isn't ready to give it up yet but I bet he will in the not too distant future.

If I am understanding you correctly, you have no fears while going to sleep, but something IS waking you out of sleep which causes you fear. Do I have that right? I would suggest you speak with your cardiologist about this. It is very possible it's just your subconscious playing on the fears of having had a triple by-pass, but something else might be waking you and your cardiologist is the only one who can assess and reassure you.

That feeling of falling and the pressure on the side of your head could be an inner ear problem or possibly a vision problem. My advice? Go see an EENT. These don't sound like anxiety symptoms but I can see how putting off going to a doctor about the problem could create anxiety. What do you think you should do?

She has slept with me since she was about 5 or 6 years old. She is afraid of the dark and afraid to sleep alone. She takes medication for anxiety at night. She has to have the door shut and will only sleep in my room with me. It is now to the point where she is questioning evey noise she hears and wants me to take her in thew bathroom in the middle of the night. What can I do to get her over this fear?I have tried everything.

My 9 year old son has a big fear of being by himself. If he walks out the room, he will check back to make sure we're there. He can't sleep by himself. He only wants me. If his father tries to sleep w/him, he cries & refuses to go to sleep. He use to play in his room by himself, but now he refuses to do that. Any suggestions for what we can do? Thanks!

Hi all does anyone waken up durin night on off with fear there choking and canty breathe or swallow jumping out bed ive been doin this for while now,thanx all

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ve had 3 normal birth s and one emergency c section at 32 weeks. I lost 6 pints of blood on the table. Had lots of new blood and was put in a comma for 9 hours. I'm so glad they put me to sleep.I'm going to try for a vbac but if my specialists want me to have another c section. I want them to put me sleep again I don't feel I can be awake for it. Which is no way fair on my boyfriend as this is his 1st baby and he will miss out on seeing his baby come into the world.

ya i get this a lot even do im not afraid of dyeing the thought of it just puts my stomach in knots i think its more a fear of un-none will it be painful,l how will i happen, all these questions run in my head, i sometimes convince myself im dyeing and send myself into a full blown panick attack so now when i start to think of death i do something to take my mind off it!

My 12 yrs old son has fear of night when is trying to sleep in his room,although we keep the lights in his room on,do you think he would get over this or he needs some form of help,my main concern is that some nights he does not get enough sleep and he is tired the next day for school,please advise

I have started letting either his sister or his little brother sleep in the room with him because he has two twin beds. This is the only way we all can get a night of sleep. I know that he has a lot on his mind, he and I talk when he wants to talk about this. I have reassured him that he is safe and that nothing will bother him. We have lived in the same house for 12 years. I don't know what else to do.

Anxiety can manifest itself in certain ways, in my opinion. Yours is your fear of cancer. My original source of anxiety started with my heart, but if I thought I had something, then I had it. You name it, I must have been suffering from it...it is a hard pattern of thinking to get out of sometimes. Throughout all of this, have you had access to a therapist to talk this over? In my opinion, the best thing you can do to get over this is accept it and confront it.

I am back home now and while the pain meds are helping with the pain, the sleep meds are barely touch the sleep. Now I can sleep for a few hours at a time instead of 5 to 10 minutes. I feel bad posting here for something which may be mild & benign, but I'm frightened more than anything else right now.

Try to do something relaxing before you go to sleep, like take a bath. One of the standard pieces of advice is to get up if you haven't managed to fall asleep after 30 min, so that you don't worry about not sleeping, do something for a while, and then try again. I hope you get some good sleep soon!

What you descrive is a panic attack when you have this intense fear, then you become afraid of the fear and so on until it becomes a vicious circle. You came to the right place! You should browze a lot of these threads as you will quickly see that you are not alone in your fear and anxiety and you will perhaps learn from how others have coped with it.

My grandmother got married when she was 18 years old, she was young and had a baby and so she figured it was the right thing to do. However, things didn't work out and she and my grandfather got divorced. Soon after, she got involved with another man. In my early years, I really remember him being kind and humble, I call the man 'daddy' for crying out loud as my father moved abroad before I was born. For six years, this man was all I knew in my daily life.

my son afraid even go near puppies, chicks, some time he pees in his sleep, are these behaviors to worried about

We want to know what to do about our 6 year old daughters fear of the dark. She has been afraid of the dark for a long time but it has gotten worse lately. We just moved to a new home. She has her own room but it is a jack and jill meaning that there is a bathroom and closet between her room and her twin brothers room.

Actually nothing is happening with your body it just feels like it cause of the fear and again fear is a feeling and feelings has never hurted anyone. And you should be busy with life, clothes, boys, men, other stuff then that vecause now you are just spending alot of time on something thats is YOU its who you are a person with emotions and feelings is has allways been there just that earlier you didnt Feel after it.

have the exact same thing, when my grandad died when he fell off a ladder and had severe bleeding in the brain, I had bad anxiety but go over it and then my other grandad had a heart attack about 4 months ago in the middle of uni exams and the fear of death has not escaped me ever since. I think about how much life I would miss out on if I died today, think about my mates and family and the emotional toll it would have.

I am 14 and recently I have developed a fear of sleep. Does anyone know the cause, have any suggestions, or a similar problem? About three years ago I would stay up late during the summer, and due to childish fears of being the last one awake I would force myself to stay awake all night. The next day would I would be exhausted and moody and the day would be all together unpleasant. Then when night would come, I would get nervous, probably fearing I would not fall asleep again.

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I posted in the HIV forum a couple of times and they have basically told me not to worry because I had a no risk situation. But my 8 week test is coming up on friday and im full of fear. Im on exchange right now and have been so worried about this that my work has been declining..I've shut myself of in my room and the fear and depression is eating me alive I dunno what to do. I came on exchange to have adventure relax a bit and hopefully find a girl friend...I know weird reasons eh.

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