 

My state has recently been placed under extreme lock-down conditions due to the recent covid19 surge and the new strains (I hope everyone is keeping safe). This has added a difficult amount of stress to my life through different factors pertaining to social life, work life, lack of income atm, university life, etc.

This stress has manifested itself into nighttime anxiety, which can also snowball into nighttime panic attacks. Apparently this is somewhat normal as we don't have tasks to focus on and therefore begin to overthink and have more space for entertaining bad thoughts.

To combat this, I recently made a few changes to the stressors, reached out to friends for online meetings, made a uni schedule to overcome online learning and take many walks to refresh and feel less trapped. This has helped me to feel more in control of my life.

The problem is now, that I have somewhat associated the link between anxiety attacks with nighttime as a whole. So when nighttime approaches, I begin to get incredibly anxious for no other reason than I know that prior to making changes in my life, I experienced anxiety attacks at night. For the past week I have grown increasingly nervous simply because of the change in day to night.

How can I get back to normal? Has anyone ever felt this before? Would you have any advice? Thank you for reading :)

tldr - used to get panic attacks at night due to daily stressors, removed daily stressors and am now anxious when night falls because of the association. how can i fix this?