To ask you how you feel when you first wake up in the morning?

[Boredbumhead]

Lately, I've been feeling groggy when I first wake up. My stomach aches and I almost feel a bit flat. All my 'issues" and 'problems' race through my head, and I feel a bit of anti climax. I get better as the morning goes on. But I've been waking up with an odd sense of dread. I am locked down with ex-dp because of th children which could be a cause of it. How do you feel when you first wake up?

Every day at the moment I wake up thinking WTAF is going on. A moment of disbelief that it’s actually real and not a dream. And yes just a feeling of dread that I cannot shake. I’m finding I’m sleeping strangely deeply but cannot get to sleep until usually after 1am and very morning is a huge struggle to get up and get moving.

I feel groggy and it takes me ages to properly wake up. When I was working I'd jump straight in the showervsnd ping into life.
I also get that sinking feeling as it dawns on me all over again what's going on in my life and the world. I'm too groggy and tired to deal with it so try and push it out of my head.
Like you once I'm up and more awake and alert I feel less weighed down by it all.

I feel dread at the prospect of another Groundhog Day. I have that sinking stomach feeling you get when something bad has happened the day before. Similar to when I was younger and split up from a boyfriend or messed up an exam.

The dread could be perimenopausal or menopausal. I have it sometimes. I don’t sleep as good as I used to and I wake up exactly like you describe it. It is a pain! I am 45.

Like shit. Groggy and flat. Compulsively reach for my phone to check the headlines.

Sore and tired. I have hypermobilty issues and I always have some bit of me that doesn't work properly/ causes me pain. I have to do a mental body inventory every day to check which bits hurt today. I don't sleep well either and so I generally wake up pretty low. The C-19 situation has made my sleeping 1000% times worse. I am always, always tired!

I get woken up at a ridiculous hour by my 2 year old screeching for me, so tired mostly.

I feel ok, DH has usually gone out for an early morning run so I stretch right out across the bed. Then I remember that I have yet another shitty day to get through and my mood changes to slightly anxious and sad and wondering which of my kids will be the first to shout at me or have a massive hissy fit about something insignificant today.

Similar to other posters, groggy and always with a sense of shock that this is still happening. As I'm not working and the days are all the same I try and work out what day it is. Sometimes I get it wrong!

Shattered, defeated and just pissed off.

I can identify with the sense of dread/bad feeling on waking.
I think it’s around not knowing what’s coming next and if it will be worse than the last few weeks.
Worrying about the pressure of getting back into work when I can work from home.
Not being able to make decisions about things and not knowing what to do for the best.
Feeling inadequate.

Another one with a very early rising two year old. Mainly exhaustion and a bit of dread about the day ahead.

A feeling of dread here too. Low level headaches a lot. Feels like I have a big exam coming up but I left education 35 yes ago.

Bloody awful. I always wake up feeling like I've been run over. But this is all the time, not just due to pandemic.

Same. Really groggy, feels like ground hog day, nothing new to look forward to. Immediately want to check the news in case anything has changed re. the coronavirus, but it never has and feel disappointed. Just want to stay in bed but have kids to get up for. Feel a bit better when I'm up dressed and ready, but it's getting harder and harder as the days go on.

Yep, same. Feeling of dread and realisation that this is all real and we've got to get through another bloody day. I always feel better once I've seen the dog!

@OnceUponACat

The dread could be perimenopausal or menopausal. I have it sometimes. I don’t sleep as good as I used to and I wake up exactly like you describe it. It is a pain! I am 45

That is interesting. I am 43 and possibly peri menopausal. Do you think it is hormone related then?

The dread is definitely not menopausal, it's to do with the global pandemic out there

I feel rough when I wake up. I feel slightly better if I haven’t eaten at all the previous evening so don’t know if it’s a digestive thing. I used to ache badly although not so much these days for some reason.

This morning I woke up and within seconds I thought of all the things I need to worry about (mostly family/being ill/the current situation.)

Did you wake up feeling like this jan/Feb this year?

Im ok now, fortunately, but i think waking up next to someone you dislike is a HUGE factor. When i was still with my exH, i woke up feeling rubbish and full of dread almost every day. There was no pandemic, no lockdown, but i felt very much how you describe.

I slept much better after my exH left. Now i sleep with my new DP, i sleep like a log and wake up feeling good, even now. It does help that i am still working full-time, so dont have that awful churning ennui where every single day is the same (boring and scary). I really do sympathise.

I'm 33 weeks pregnant so currently wake up quite sore after a bad night's sleep whenever my 2 year old wakes up (this morning his nappy leaked so it was 4:30). Then I try to think about what we can do today that's "different" and feel a bit down at the lack of options. Then I get myself excited for dinner. Today it's roast chicken. Excitement for dinner is the main thing that makes me happy atm 😬🐷

To feel anxiety and dread first thing on a morning is quite normal for many and once you know it's a "thing" and it will pass once you've been awake a while and had a coffee and something to eat, then it doesn't feel as bad.

www.verywellmind.com/tips-to-reduce-morning-anxiety-2584123

I am pretty much through the menopause now but have not experienced 'morning dread' until the pandemic started. Now it's every morning. If it weren't that my animals need feeding I'd probably not bother getting out of bed at all.

Happy generally. Can't wait to get a coffee and go sit in the garden