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[Doodahtee]

My anxiety is so bad tonight. Constant googling and can’t sleep

What is up setting you,

Health anxiety for my daughter

Been there. I sympathise OP. Anxiety is a difficult thing.
Have a go at this meditation. It's useful for getting rid of all those thoughts and calming down.

It's something I was taught to do during CBT and it helped a lot.

Have you tried deep breathing? My way when I’m too anxious to sleep is visualising the four sides of a square with a number in the middle. Start at 100, breathe in along the top of the square, hold as you go down the side, breathe out as you go along the bottom and hold as you go up the edge again. Then do the same with 99 etc and gradually count down. Haven’t explained it well, but that really helps for me if I can make myself focus on it and not get distracted.

Thank you both i just am really worried

Are you worrying about something specific? Is she okay?

The only thing you should be googling is relaxation tips. Definitely try some breathing as PP above mentioned. There’s something about counting and finger tapping, not that I can remember it but it has definitely helped me before.

Do you have anyone in RL you can offload to?

Can you describe your specific worry?

DD was sunburned badly with MIL as a baby and i keep thinking she will get skin cancer trying to google relaxation tips

@Doodahtee

DD was sunburned badly with MIL as a baby and i keep thinking she will get skin cancer trying to google relaxation tips

Your daughter will be okay OP. It might be worth it for you to get out of bed rather than continue to stress in bed. Go make yourself a nice drink of herbal tea/ hot chocolate water with ice and lemon in. Whatever is relaxing for you. Once you have done that, find a podcast, book or audio book and sit in a chair with that and a blanket until you feel your head really nodding off. Get off google and mumsnet altogether. Get off your phone unless it’s for an audiobook (Spotify have them btw). It’s only sleep OP try not to stress too much x

@ikeepseeingit thank you for your kind message

Im sorry @Doodahtee

I know how you feel