TW: Death

I’ve already posted about this kind of anxiety before, but I have anxiety over going to sleep sometimes because I fear I may not wake back up. Yet today I’ve stayed up for over 24 hours because I was convinced I would die in my sleep. I am also now having anxiety over having stayed up for over 24 hours.

I have zero reason to believe that I would die. I actually went to a doctor’s appointment a couple of weeks ago for a checkup, and I was perfectly healthy. I don’t have some undiagnosed heart disease as none of my family doesn’t have a condition like this, which is what I was worried about before. I guess I’m scared to give in to the natural process of sleep even though I’ve done it my whole life. I literally only began to worry about it because of “What if I died?”

I can type this all out, and I know it’s completely irrational. I know that thinking and worrying about dying in my sleep doesn’t mean that it will happen. Yet my brain refuses to believe the facts and make me go to sleep, at least for right now. I would appreciate some support right now, if that’s possible, and thank you very much if you do lend some support.