The feeling of anguish first thing in the morning is a feeling that people who suffer from depression and also those who have acute episodes of anxiety can experience more frequently. In the same way, those who live a difficult stage in which they have to face a situation that overwhelms them, They may also experience fear first thing in the morning (the relationship between fear and distress is direct).
The anguish at the beginning of the day shows how the way of interpreting reality influences the way of feeling by way of cause and effect. He who experiences anguish interpret the day in negative and feeling tired from the weight of so many pending steps to carry out. Anxiety produces a distortion of reality, however, it has such force that the person feels that she is locked in her own thoughts and that she carries them wherever she goes.
When a person begins the day in this way, he wakes up with a low mood and is even tired (sadness itself exhausts). Faced with a situation of this type, it is very important to seek medical help as soon as possible since time is a factor that helps to find a specific therapeutic remedy for emotional distress.
It is the specialist who can guide the patient in treatment suitable. This feeling of anguish remits little by little throughout the day, as the day progresses, the person is gaining a greater peace of mind after having passed many of the tests that first thing in the morning they worried. This experience of being calmer as the hours go by should serve as an emotional anchor to remember, in those moments of discomfort, that everything passes.
Anguish shows the negative anticipation of reality when the mind imagines a situation that it associates with a danger and a threat to its own well-being.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
