Well the good news is that I have been doing very well with anxiety/panic attacks. I am getting okay at controlling them. The problem is that I can't seem to get enough sleep. Does anyone else have the problem with being really tired all the time? I take sleeping pills to go to sleep. Is this just the depressing part of things?

I'm still working on this one. I will have a good night and then have like 4 bad ones where I'm up until 12 or 1...the problem here is for me it doesn't matter when I go to bed I still need to get up at the same time with kids and getting my husband off to work, and myself to work if I work that day. My husband and I are working out a schedule so we are in bed by 9 or 9:30ish every night. Lack of sleep surely takes it tole after awhile. I have found though recently I've been putting on my headphones and listening to one of my relaxation cd's( it is not the programs) one I don't need to really participate in physically and this has been doing the trick for me. Sometimes I will wake up with them still on my head mikki

Oh boy........sometimes I wonder if I'll ever have real energy. I'm tired constantly. I can sleep for 10 hours and I wake up and feel like I haven't slept in days. The big problem with me is that I know my exhasution and fatigue is caused by the anxiety and depression. Where as with most other people, anxiety and panic attacks make them want to run, well with me, my body can't handle it and my natural response is to shut down. When I have a panic attack or feel even a big anxious I have the uncontrolable desire to sleep. Its so bad that I wake up in the morning thinking that I can't wait for the day to be over so that I can go back to bed. It needs to stop, its disrupting every part of my life!!! I've been trying to cut back on the caffeine, but holy lord!!! When I have an early morning with only 6 hours of sleep under my belt the rest of my day is literally physical pain from exhaustion. I need the coffee, I can't break the addiction. I'm in the boat with rest of you, I need just as much advice.

I'm in this same boat also. All I've wanted to do for the past 2 years is sleep. It may actually be longer than that. It seems that sleeping is my way of escaping the world and all of its problems. I am a single mother of 3. I had my last child 2 years ago, my husband at that time left right after I had the baby and to top that off, I got laid off my job shortly after that. So I guess all of that happening at once just kinda took its toll on me. I ordered the attacking anxiety and depression program after this and it helped for a while, I decided to go back to school to get an Associates Degree, so I can get a good job. I worked in the program till around lesson 8, then suddenly I had no time to do it anymore. Thankfully, I just started back, I've got to take control of my life because its really been going downhill and all my kids have is me. Their fathers don't care. Wish me luck and if you have any advice please send it my way.