I notice more and more how on edge I am a lot of the time, even if I am trying to go about my day and not focus on my symptoms. It happens a lot more towards the night-time too, or if I am up during the nights. I was wondering if anyone here knows what I can do about this? I just feel like I am so jumpy a lot of the time, especially if the day before I took an ativan. Sometimes if my house is quiet and someone speaks, I flinch. I get SO easily startled. I just feel so hypervigilant that it's driving me bonkers. Sometimes I am even scared to cough or sneeze because the loud sound may throw me into major anxiety as I am already shook up. When my boyfriend and I try to go for drives sometimes in the dark, I become so aware and alert- sometimes this makes me whisper or afraid to talk at all. It's like I am so afraid of hearing my own voice sometimes... I hope all this doesn't sound too weird, but I was hoping to get some advice. I just feel so shook up a lot of the time, and then I try and do all these safety behaviours or craddle myself which feeds the panic cycle even further. Please help. Thank you.
