Nina, 39. Is it just me or is the anxiety the weirdest bit of all this. Like there's no trigger. Nothing has happened. The kids are fine, work is fine, I haven't had an argument or a difficult email or anything. And then boom, 3am, heart going, this low horrible dread just sitting in my chest. I can't explain it to my partner because what do I say? "I'm anxious but about nothing"? He looks at me like I need to manage my stress better and I want to cry because that's not what this is. I know what stress feels like. This is different. It arrives from nowhere and it has a physical quality to it, almost chemical if that makes sense. I've started writing things down this week. Not formally, just notes on my phone. What time I woke up, whether the anxiety was there, how the evening had gone, whether I'd eaten properly. Trying to see if there's any pattern because my brain is so foggy I genuinely cannot hold two weeks of data in my head. I've got a GP appointment coming up and I really want to ask about HRT and sleep specifically, because the broken nights seem to be feeding the anxiety and the anxiety feeds the broken nights and I can't work out where it starts. Has anyone managed to talk to their GP about that link? Did they take it seriously or did you get the "try mindfulness" thing? Genuinely asking because I want to know what I'm walking into x