Mental anxiety at night?

[[Li...]]

I have to admit that I am seeing a lot of progress in symptoms at around the 2-year mark. I do not suffer from any physical symptoms and I tend to have quite a few windows here and there. It seems like I have 2-day windows and then I'll have a rough week wave, which is definitely an improvement.

 

But there's something that I don't really understand and it's that I seem to get pretty severe mental anxiety at night for no reason whatsoever. I 'can' get it during the day, but it's not nearly as common and it seems to set in at around the same time each night. I can go an entire day feeling almost normal and not really struggling with any issues, but as soon as 8PM-ish rolls around I begin to experience the weird mental anxiety. It's mostly just a general sense of doom/gloom and fear, brain fog, crazy looping thoughts, difficulty concentrating, trouble thinking, etc.

 

It's pretty mild compared to what I used to go through during my first year, but it's still really odd that I seem to struggle with this at night. It just feels like this weird disconnection from my mind where my thoughts are fearful and I just feel out of it. It comes on out of nowhere and without any trigger and I'm pretty much just stuck in it until the next day when I wake up.

 

Anyone else experience this?

[Guest [Ko...]]

My worst time of the day is around 4-7pm.  I can only speculate that it has to do with cortisol?

[[Li...]]

It's odd for sure. Woke up this morning and it was completely gone. It's definitely some sort of extreme chemical anxiety, because it's like clockwork everyday but I cant bring it on at all during the day. That's a definite improvement because I remember feeling insane 24/7. I think my baseline has improved because I feel really close to normal during the day, but it makes it more difficult when it rears up during waves and at night.