A third of our lives is used to sleep. We miss so much of our life, just from sleeping. I try my hardest to stay awake, I rarely get panic attacks from this because I panic that I'm letting life pass me by just from sleeping. When I do sleep, I get nightmares about my life, about me standing there, watching the world go by, letting my life go to waste, which makes me even more scared to go to sleep.

When my body eventually falls asleep, I always wake up feeling sick and anxious, scared and shakey. I've tried to see a doctor about it but I got too scared and bottled out.

Does anyone else ever feel this way? What have you done to calm down?