Insomnia

Diagnosis Date: N/A

Do I Have It: Yes

Severity: 9/10

Insomnia sucks.

And if you have anxiety, there's a huge chance you have insomnia. 

This isn't a disorder you need to get diagnosed with; you know right off the bat whether you have it or not. The lack of sleep, staying up at night, tossing and turning and thinking about anything and everything in the world, including those stupid mistakes you made 8 years ago that should be out of your head forever. It blows, it really does. And one of the worst things about it is there really is no way to help it. 

Insomnia is a disorder that you have to take day-by-day. Some nights will be fine, others you'll accidentally stay up all night. You know how it goes, fellow anxious reader. It's not because of drugs (well, it can be) or because of any conditions--you just kind of stay up all night, thinking about everything under the sun.

With anxiety you do that anyway, but it always seems to be that much worse at night, when those thoughts keep you away from the safe-haven of sleep. It can cut into your daily life and can come and go for no reason. So in a way, insomnia is a lot like a hooker: keeping you up at night and never really knowing where to stay.

You know how it goes, I know how it goes... but because of our minds keeping us awake, we're prone to think of some cool things at least every now and then. Like imagining a huge dragon fighting a robot somewhere. That's awesome.

Like I said earlier: always something good you can take away from the bad. Even if it's a huge dragon fighting a robot somewhere.