[mredskins]

SS84 I totally hear where you are coming from. In HS I use to have a lot of the same issues and I talked to my PCP. A lot of it was just me imagining bad things going to happen and then I would stress about things that had not even occurred or were going to occur.

I still remember this today and it helped me the most. My PCP said our minds say lets of things we don't have to listen to everything it says. He said think of your thoughts as a radio station if something comes on the station and it worries you pick a new station (meaning think of positive stuff). It took a lot of self discipline for me to do this but over time I trained my mind to change the channel. I can remember at times worrying about something then changing the channel and I forgot what I was so worried about.

During high stress times it still comes back to me. This past month I have struggled with it with my move. I would worry about all these crazy scenarios and literally wake up just like you described. I drove my realtor crazy I am sure.

My wife has helped a lot too and she will say listen nothing has happen yet so if it comes we will tackle it then but until then don't worry.

You got learn your triggers as well.

Mine are:
Big Change (moving, new job, etc...)
Watching Sports (I can get nervous watching a big game then it won't go away even after the game is over)
Some video games (FPS after playing them get me too spun up)
Repairs (if something is broken it will worry me about how to fix it)
Lying (I can't lye not even white ones; the guilt afterwards drives me crazy)

The biggest one is major change the others are smaller and I have learned to deal with them so I can still enjoy the activity (FPS, Sporting Events, etc.. not lying).

SS84 I hope that is a help in some way. I think your best bet is seeing your PCP then going from there.