My body has never been in love with sleeping 8+ straight hours, it prefers 5-6 hours, then waking up for a bit, and picking up 3-5 hours more. Since really working a structured 9-5 beginning in 2015, my anxiety is just wreaking havoc on getting my body and mind enough rest. I'll wake up 2-3 hours before my alarm, and my head will go nuts about how there's not enough time before my alarm goes off to get any more sleep, and how much my tiredness is going to affect my workday.

I've been unemployed for a year a and a half, which has meant sleep is on my terms, and even pre-pandemic, I had moved to a part time job that gave me 2 more days off a week to make up for the sleep loss. But now I begin a new job in about a week, and here I am up on a Saturday at 5:30 AM in a panic, before I even start. I work out, which I was hoping would help with sleep, but now I'm doubtful, especially because I don't know if I'll be able to work out as well with 8+ hours of my day gone. Any tips on sleeping through anxiety? Normally getting to sleep isn't a particular problem for me, but staying asleep is. And when I'm tired, my performance really suffers, which just makes things worse.