Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone has any advice for helping fix this slowly. I had an acute anxiety episode for about three-four months where I was so anxious all the time about sleep, and was sleeping 3 hours a night, for months. Now, my anxiety is much better, I’ve started doing deep breathing meditations before bed, and even though I feel so, so exhausted all the time, I still cannot nap at all nor sleep more than 4 hours a night. I got to bed between 8-9pm, can’t fall asleep until 12-1am, then wake up at 4am and am not able to sleep more. Sometimes I even wake up three times in the night before I wake up finally at four hours’ sleep total. My brain just wakes up, I try to go back to sleep because I’m exhausted, but my heart has already started thumping very fast despite me being very relaxed and not actually anxious about anything. I’ll do more deep breathing, but it doesn’t help. My mind’s awake. 

I’m at my wit’s end here. Should I just be patient and keep trying to stay as positive as I’ve been and just continue as best I can through working full time and hope that is goes away? Or try something more drastic? I’m exercising, I’m eating super well according to ‘low anxiety’ foods, and so on. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any advice / words would be appreciated, thank you 🥲