Hi everyone,

just had the worst night in months. Background: Very severe existential anxiety starting about six weeks after a traumatic event when this political situatio also started, together those two threats to my life, one immediate and one vague, were too much for my brain and something broke.

Ever since then, my life has been absolutely awful. I haven’t slept properly since then, am always bone tired, always terribly anxious and full of dread. „Anxiety” is such a small word for what I am feeling. This insomnia has given me additional fears, too, what if I get dementia (am high risk anyway) or stroke or heart disease from not sleeping…ofc I would sleep if I could. I tried a multitude of drug and non drug things, nothing works.

Anyway, short background aside, Tonight I had one of the worst night, no more than 10 mins sleep in many little exhausted naps and always waking up with a jolt of fear. Even a sleeping pill couldn’t put me to rest. Incidentally I had eaten a lot of garlic the night and day before, really a lot. And there was ofc bad news in the news  but I only read that near morning so before that it must have been something else causing this.

Does anyone know if garlic can cause anxiety in people who are already so wired?