Middle of the night anxiety

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It's 3.48 and I've been awake for an hour worrying.
What am I worrying about? I honestly don't even know anymore. It's gone from money to career to remembering the bathroom blind is broken and currently I'm anxious I've left the window open at work and I'm also
Desperately racking my brains to
Remember where a really pretty dress I haven't seen in ages has gone.
It's trivial and nonsense. Is anyone else awake and doing this same thing? WHY DOES MY BRAIN DO THIS?!

Hello. Me too. Fun isn’t it?
Currently worrying about work, money and a pain in my stomach (probably caused by stress!). I have nothing to worry about in reality as these are all short term, resolvable, problems. My brain won’t accept that though.

Yep this is every night for me. Worrying about money (or lack of). Work. Whether LG is ok in her own room. Whether the door is locked. Or the car is still where I left it.

I used to listen to calming tapes where a lady talked to me in a calm voice and it worked for a few days but then it just kept me awake. Always nice to know you're not alone OP!!

Here too.
Worried about work, money (or lack of), school. Everything really . Almost like I'm looking for things to go wrong .

Me too! This happens to me regularly. I fall asleep with no problem but then exactly this happens. Always at around 2:30 or 3am. Things I didn't even know we're a concern to me pop up. It's like all these worries have a physical presence and they wait for me to wake up, gather round the bed and take it in turns to prod me (I tend to process things in a very visual way, so that's the best way I can describe it) I wonder if there's a sleep remedy especially for waking like this? As I said, no problem going to sleep in the first place, the problem is the unacknowledged worries calling a press conference at 3am!

Another one suffering here. I've tried everything, exercise, nytol, no alcohol, counselling (still early days here). Just an anxious person. Feels so unfair.

I'm so sorry that you're all in the same boat but I'm so relieved that I'm not alone!
I'm so annoyed because I'm not shattered and about to do a ten hour day in the theatre. I'm going to try a mindfulness app tonight because this is the third day on the trot and it's no good.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a herbal remedy specifically for this?

Are you peri menopausal? Someone told me this was a symptom and it reassured me that it's not just me who does this!

I read (on here actually) a while ago that it's actually inbuilt in us to worry in the middle of the night as in caveman times, that's when we were under most threat apparently! Something like that anyway. But that's apparently why everything feels so much worse at 3am.

I also had this as a symptom of peri-menopause. The thing that actually really helped me was reading "the sleep book" by Guy Meadows. I don't usually get anything from self help books either, for instance the Alan Carr one did not stop me smoking! But this book really did help, and I had tried many other things that didn't.

I'm only 31 so it's not that.
Interesting about it being inbuilt as cavemen. I wish I had a remedy. Would be so interested in a herbal remedy if anyone had one!

I had this badly for 6 months or so, hypnotherapy is working well so far