[AaronGarcia12]

For A year now I been struggling on and off with sleep anxiety ever since the pandemic I been scared that not having enough sleep will make it easier for me to get sick and Something horrible will happen to me I begin worrying one day a lot to the point where I think my anxiety got very high and I experienced A Sleep Jerk Or a Sleep Start I been I suffered from this for a while until one day I convinced myself that it was all a voluntary action that I was doing and that it was not a sleep jerk because I wouldn’t always jerk I would just gasp for air or wake up when I felt like I was dozing off.

Well the point is that it went away and well now Around this time of the year again I start getting scared and I got a sleep jerk or sleep start yesterday and the day before and it’s gotten to the point where it happens a lot during the night I try to calm myself Down and I eventually fall asleep after manny attempts but omg this is Horrible I hate feeling like am the only one and this is Very scary for me I’m beginning to question again if it is a sleep jerks or if it’s just be subconsciously being scared of falling asleep or changing my breathing patterns and that everytime I fall asleep it’s just me Causing myself not to sleep I need some reassurance that this is real and that it’s not all just something I’m causing to myself 🙁 it feels like everytime I’m ready for sleep I gasp for air or my heart starts pounding like crazy

[Martin Reed]

It sounds as though you have a very protective mind there — lucky you! It’s working hard, looking for any potential threats and generating all kinds of thoughts and feelings in an effort to protect you and remind you of what’s important to you.

Of course, many of the thoughts and feelings (and this includes sensations such as hypnic jerks) are unpleasant and uncomfortable — so our default response is likely to be to try to fight or avoid them. And yet, since we can’t control what happens inside us, this can get us tangled up in a struggle that can make things even more difficult.

If you have any health concerns whatsoever, I would suggest talking to your doctor. If they find you to be perfectly healthy then it’s quite likely all the difficult things you described in your post are becoming more difficult the more you try to fight or avoid them.

So, perhaps an approach that involves acknowledging them and being kind to yourself might be a helpful first step toward moving away from the struggle?

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