How many of you experience an acute bout of stress right as you wake up in the morning?

Been there.

Time to change something in your life, because it will never go away on it's own.

Just finishing up grieving a girl who was sweet and kind for many years and then turned out to be a lying cheating heartless little slut. First thing in the morning used to be agonizing with depression about it, now I'm more alert because it's not depression but rage. I haven't been sleeping well.

I get this too. When I wake up the dreams are over and it's time to face another day of harsh reality. The torturous sun rises, and another pointless day begins.

Happens to me at times. I thought it had something to do with waking in a specific cycle of sleep, or waking to a loud alarm. Fear is a good way to put it. I can be completely freaked out about life, or whatever I have to accomplish, even if nothing stressful is going on.

I will have to look into the cortisol issue...

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This morning I was using my tongue to rip out each of my teeth and swallow them. Not a pleasant way to wake up.

I feel it when work or school is stressing me out and I have to deal with something that day, or waiting for the day to come. But it's not every morning, just til that ordeal is done with.

Yeah. Something is bothering you. I've been there.

I feel that stress until I'm on the road with a cup of coffee listening to music.

Once a week. I call it "Monday."

Only when I forget to take out the trash the night before.

I am majorly OCD, especially about work.

If i dont check my email right when I wake up i will throw up from being stressed out.

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I do every morning.. intense stress about work, kid, money, etc...

I was rock-climbing the front of a barn. Leonardo DiCaprio was trying to shoot me off, or something. The rest of the group was on the ground, trying to convince me that the barn was haunted. After the ghosts took over our bodies, we all went in for reconstructive surgery. All of it was pretty fucked up, but mine wasn't the worst - even though mine was the only one I could remember. My ears were split and splayed out, stretched across the top of my head, like a triceratops. One of my eyes was replaced with a feeding tube, and the other was completely smooth skin. Inside of my mouth was my single eye, using my lips to move it around. A tattoo on the white of my eye, in the shape of an evil-looking ghoti, and a head of hair like a widow's peak. All of my joints were completely sealed, so that I was permanantly huddled up as though in terror. My 'caretakers' were forced to wheel me around in a specially shaped wheelchair. The only form of communication I had at my disposal was to make various "Expressions" with my lips, by contorting my eyeball into different emotional forms. With years of practice, I was able to communicate fairly well with my nurse, who was the only person that understood how terribly the ghosts had damaged my psyche. Yeah, I've felt that way when I woke up, yet fine the moment I realized it was all a dream. Are you sure you aren't just having strange dreams?