Anxiety? Hypochondria? Waking up with headaches Topaz: I've been waking up with headaches for the past few days. The weirdest thing is that I've been going to bed super early, so theoretically I should be waking up feeling extra rested and refreshed, but I don't at all.
When I'm sleeping, I have these extremely detailed, complicated dreams full of action. I could pin it on anxiety (AS USUAL! :D) but strangely enough, I've been feeling the calmest I've been in years. I don't have a lot that's making me anxious.
So as soon as I wake up, I google "waking up with headaches", and I get all kinds of conflicting information - it could be anxiety, it could be depression, it could be a brain tumor, I should be eating more before I go to bed and I'm waking up with low blood sugar, I have a sodium deficiency. It's enough to send any hypochondriac tendencies I have into overdrive.
I start wondering if it's because I'm wearing my old glasses since my regular ones got stolen. I start googling "brain tumor". Maybe it's because I switched to a new, intense circuit training workout. And why am I craving anything salty? I have no energy today.
Re: Anxiety? Hypochondria? Waking up with headaches JadedButtafly: I have major anxiety; but mine consists of a serous rash that breaks out all over my body in large red blotches that itches and keeps me awake at night. it comes and goes, it will pop up in one spot and fade away a mintue later and hit another spot of my body...no fun in it.
Re: Anxiety? Hypochondria? Waking up with headaches Topaz: That sounds really tough, Essie. My brother gets something similar, but just on his hands and forearms. Like a nervous eczema, I guess.
The link between mind and body is intense. It's interesting to see how different states of mind manifest themselves in the body.
I find it interesting as well to notice that while my ability to master my own anxiety has increased and improved, there are still things going on in my body (headaches, etc.) which I would attribute to anxiety.
