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To be wide awake worrying?

34 replies

wildfellhall · 06/01/2025 04:40

Just that really.

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LostTheMarble · 06/01/2025 07:19

Hope you’re ok op. Your daughter will be ok, honestly it’s a bit mean having these kids go straight from Christmas break to exams! I’m the type of person who can’t get to sleep, exhausted all day but at soon as it gets to 10pm+ my head is like a whirlwind for the next few hours. Possibly for good reason at the moment (on the 2ww for the breast clinic) but it’s not fun living with permanent anxiety and exhaustion.

YellowPixie · 06/01/2025 07:49

How old are you, @wildfellhall ? I never had any sleep or anxiety issues until my late 40s when I starting having menopausal symptoms, when all of a sudden I was wide awake at 3am with a feeling of doom in my stomach.

Hwi · 06/01/2025 07:51

wildfellhall · 06/01/2025 05:10

Thanks for asking; some health issues, & dd has exams starting tomorrow and was so overwhelmed that she found it almost impossible to revise over the holiday. I feel so responsible for not helping her be a better student.

But I was a shocking one 🤦‍♀️

If you can't stop worrying about it, in the future get involved with helping her - creating a timetable for revision, sitting in with her, watching YouTube videos explaining exam material together - you can be study buddies. Don't listen to people who would discourage you from doing it - my sister did it throughout med school years 1,2 with her son, it helped his anxiety and by year 3 he was super-confident with his revision skills. Before they started doing this prep together, both he and she were nervous wrecks.

Shinyandnew1 · 06/01/2025 07:56

Lourdes12 · 06/01/2025 07:01

Anxiety is the worse! My 6 year old who is in y2 has been saying over the last three days that she is not going back to school ever again. Turns out it’s SATS she’s anxious about. They call it independent learning and she is not aloud to ask for help not even when there are words she doesn’t understand so she can’t even answer the question. She’s saying the teacher gets angry with them if they haven’t answered the questions or if they get too many wrong. She’s been crying hysterically about it. I don’t know what to do 😩

Y2 SATs were scrapped! If your school is choosing to voluntarily do them, then that's crazy!

jeaux90 · 06/01/2025 08:05

DD starting mocks?
Mine too. It's ridiculous though, two weeks of exams when the actual ones are really spread out and gives them more time to revise etc

I think our education system sucks and puts too much pressure on our young people and us as parents.

Shinyandnew1 · 06/01/2025 15:15

Thank you, @JustMyView13 . I will order some. How long did you find it took to make a difference?

JustMyView13 · 06/01/2025 16:01

@Shinyandnew1 Straight away. I noticed a difference from the very first nights sleep. I’ve also spoken to others who found it equally as effective.

The funny thing is, if I forget to take them I really notice the difference, I find my body is very responsive to them.

I actually call them my ‘magnificent’ pills. Because I really do feel magnificent the next day 😂😂

Shinyandnew1 · 06/01/2025 17:06

JustMyView13 · 06/01/2025 16:01

@Shinyandnew1 Straight away. I noticed a difference from the very first nights sleep. I’ve also spoken to others who found it equally as effective.

The funny thing is, if I forget to take them I really notice the difference, I find my body is very responsive to them.

I actually call them my ‘magnificent’ pills. Because I really do feel magnificent the next day 😂😂

I have just ordered some magnificence! Fingers crossed for me, too!!

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