Can't sleep so anxious advice needed

[Anxious]

Every night when it gets dark I start freaking out that I can hear noises around my house and that someone is going to try break into my house and if that happens I get so panicked that I I don't know how I would react or what I would do. I have my tv on the lowest volume setting and listen to all the noises, my heart races, I get really scared and I can't seem to shake it!

i know it's just a fear and my sensible side tells me I'm being silly but I can't help it..

I'm so sick of this feeling of being afraid every night it's only stated to happen over the past few months, I really need some advice on what could help me!

so if you have any tips or ever feel like this please share as I'd really appreciate some peace if mind..

[lostllama]

Hi Anxious. I used to feel that way all the time! It made me so tense! It might sound weird but one thing I did to get over it was to go to sleep with the fan on all the time, and to play music. At first I was still anxious but after a while it really helped. It is still soft enough that I think I would hear if a window broke or something, but it is noisy enough that I don't jump at all those little noises like branches scratching the roof etc.

Of course everybody is different

[geoff]

dear Anxious, in my darkest days of depression, I would also play music from a radio station I often listened to.

This took my mind far away even though I may have been crying to a song that I loved, but even now any song I still love I become sentimental over it. Geoff.