Hi all.  I don’t really know what to do other than vent a bit here.  I’ve had a significantly challenging year so far.  Massively stressful at work, family struggles, and had a drunk (now ex) friend catch me off guard and put a knife to my throat.  It seems the dust is at least settling from the stress itself, but now I am experiencing extreme night anxiety that seemed to come out of nowhere and something I’ve never experienced in my life.  In short, it’s awful.  I feel this intense sinking feeling that something is wrong, and have this awful feeling like I’m going to die.  I have no other way to describe it. It’s significantly hurting my sleep which is making things worse - I went three days without sleep and thankfully had a doctor prescribe me with a sleep aid.  I still struggle to get to sleep on it but I’m getting survivable sleep.  It’s so strange because I am actually fine during the day, but am in terror at night.  I don’t take drugs (besides the sleep aid), no alcohol (can’t bring myself to drink after the trauma), and exercise daily.  Trying to do anything healthy to get this to go away.  I guess has anyone been in this mode?  Does it get better? What helped you?  I feel I have no control over this other than to fall back on sleep aids.