Hello MissChrissy
My name is Davit and yes I have panic free nights. But I didn't always. You will find me all over this site. I also have a blog. You will have to search a long ways back to find when I was in the same boat you are but I was.
What do you do to stop the panic at night? That is a tough one. What you have to do is simple but doing it is not.
There are a lot of contributing factors as to why you panic at night, in fact there are a lot of reasons to panic any time but what it all boils down to is having your fight or flight reaction out of whack. Every one has a different reason (trigger) for this, and you will have to find yours but not right now. Jumping ahead will just mess you up.
It is all about negative and positive thoughts. Negative breeds panic, positive disperses it. That's the simple part.
Now for the hard part: Before any of what I am going to tell you can work you have to learn to relax and how to handle panic when it happens. That is where the program comes in.
Yes writing does help. It's not what you write so much as what you do with it. Anxiety orders don't happen over night even though it may seem so.
When you write something negative, look at it and ask yourself if it is true. If it isn't then concentrate on why you are thinking it and what can you do to change it. If it is true then ask yourself why, and what can you do to change it. Try to change the negative to positive. Try to put a positive spin on every thought.
Dreams are a random replaying of thoughts. If your mind can't decide if a thought or dream is something to run from it will wake you instead of ignoring it. This is where you really want to write what is happening. It will be confusing and even hard to do. but what it does is this. You will read it after and say this was no reason to panic. Do this a few times and the next time you are having these sort of thoughts or dreams the sentinels in your mind that filter all thought will say "been there done that, no reason to panic" and you wont. Simple yes! but it does take a bit of work and there are years of negative thoughts to deal with. In the process of writing all the things that you are feeling the triggers will come to the front where you can identify them.
Tell us your stories, others will have similar and they will have ways that they deal with them.
Now I wont lie to you, You can get relief here fairly quick but a cure is going to take a long time so be prepared for the long haul. But just think how nice it will be to be panic free. Do the program, it's worth it.
Davit.
