I’m struggling with the same thing. I used to love sleepovers but now I’m terrified. I get super nervous and I never end up going. It makes me less close to my friends. I am invited to a sleepover this weekend and I’m terrified. I really don’t want to go. But I haven’t been to a sleepover in so long and I feel like I’m overthinking bc I actually have forgotten how fun they can be. I want to get better but I’m to scared to try. Just reading the comments and watching the video I know I’m not alone. I think I’m going to go this weekend and start to concore my fears.
I had a sleepover last year and that night I was terrified but I stayed anyway and that night I was petrified and had a panic attack while my friend was asleep. I was scared all the way up to April of this year. I've been asked to go on Friday for a sleepover and I'm not too scared but idk what's gonna happen I feel like I'm going to panic.
Oh my goodness thank you so much for this. I am in the same situation as you. Today is my first sleepover, I'm about to leave soon. I'm in my teens and feel like I am too old to have my first one or even be anxious about this. I have butterflies in my tummy and my fingers are numb I feel like I'm having trouble typing this. I feel better knowing that there are other people that struggle with this. I'm just nervous and don't know what I'm getting myself into, but I'm just gonna do it. It may be fun, right?? I feel like I haven't really committed. It's really just the thought of not having my family and dog around but I feel too old to be that dependent on them. But I just gotta keep telling myself it'll be fun and they're my two best friends that I've know since my first year of school so deep breath, thanks for this video even though it was uploaded years ago!!! I hope your anxiety has gotten better!!!! 💗💕
I hate sleeping over at other peoples houses because I'm afriad I will have a panic attack and start crying. I wish I wouldnt have this issue but I do :(
I have the same problem I used to be fine. I am having a sleepover today, and I am very late on this vid, 8 years ago this was made lol. But I am going to one tonight and it popped out of nowhere, I start off so excited and then nerves come in. It’s hard to explain, and you can’t explain it. It’s not that you’re scared, it’s that the situation is scary. The mind is so strong that it tricks you, and it trick me into the situation I was in. It’s hard to get out of that situation, especially when you’re young. I had a panic attack and was worried. But I know it’s going to be fine. I’ll be fine I know I will, I’m going to have fun, btw I am busy in the morning so wish me luck! It feels good to say that, I’m now no longer terrified!!! Thank you girl, addios (i spelt that wrong)
Ok, can somebody help me? I have a video call appointment on Monday (4 days) and I honestly don't know why. I've struggled with my mental health before (a few months ago) but I'm fine now, so why are they wasting resources on me if so many other people need it so badly? I'm on the waiting list for an Autism assessment if that could be why. Does anybody have an opinion on this because both me and my family can't figure it out.
I year ago I had a sleepover and got sick and threw up and had to go to home ever since I’ve been so scared of getting sick that I get sick and go home I’ve had 3 sleepovers since and I keep having to go home :(
Thank you very much I watched this video before I had a sleepover which was yesterday. I was able to make it all night in the sleepover, My forts sleepover was 2 years ago and at around 2:30 am I felt like I was panicking and was crying I was so scared to tell my friend I wanted to go home. I ended up calling my parents and they brought me home after that sleepover I never wanted to do one again Ik so happy this video catches my eye on my sleepover from yesterday I felt the same as 2 years ago but I remembered this video and I managed to pull it off
I currently go to CAMHS and the first time I went for therapy, I went there twice but then the therapy sessions just stopped for a year. We got compensation for this and I am now having therapy there with no problem. So I guess it was fine??? - Some random teen
I’m having a sleepover in a few days and I’m kids stressed Edit: I’ve been sleeping on my couch and even my floor to get into a habit of sleeping in different environments
I always blamed myself getting sick on motion sickness but i realised i dont get motion sickness in buses and vr but only in a car and i also noticed i feel very nervous in a car leading me to belive it is anxiety not motion sickness but i could be wrong
Yeah see this but I feel trapped like I want to go and do it and I just can’t I think have a problem with being alone with no family it’s just dosen’t work for me
I have an appointment for the 28th this month. I’m quite nervous I’m going there because I have recently lost quite a bit of weight and I’m at the point of ive been at school 9 times in the past month due to my emetophobia and I have tried many things to stop this but it hasn’t worked I’m at the point where I cant sleep later last year I got diagnosed with anxiety and have been to quite a few doctors appointments but what I’m really saying is thank you for sharing your experience.
I do not like people looking at me. I want a bag over my head but that would draw more attention to me. I idealize the idea of having a box in a corner of the room. Also by the time I am thinking about what I'm thinking about and how things are ok, I imagine I look like a madman already and have let out a few words of talking to myself as well. That just builds up more anxiety...
i can actually relate to this. i am going to a sleepover in a week and i'm really anxious about it. i am going to a friend's house where things didn't go so well at first when i was with my whole group of friends (i puked) and a bit later i tried to sleep at the same house but only with 1 friend and things actually went pretty great. i am now going to sleep again to this house but we are going to be three which is half of the friend group and i am scared to go, but i spoke with a specialist and she told me that when people have this kind of problem, the worse thing to do it to stop going because we are scared. the best thing to do it to go often and every time you go, it will get better and better until you don't have any anxiety no more. she used as an example a little guy in our brain that presses a button when he feels like there's a dangerous situation. when we leave the sleepover he then thinks "great job, i helped the situation!" which is not the case, cuz it will make it worse. if you go, there isn't any signs that you will stop puking at first or stop having anxiety, but you've got to continue going to help yourself. sometimes it is only 1 person who makes you feel bad in sleepovers but sometimes it can also be that you are scared of your friends judging you if you feel anxious. you've got to tell yourself that you are as normal as everyone else and that they aren't gonna judge you if you feel good around them most of the time. they are actually going to understand and support you through this problem. every day at school, i try to find causes for my behavior during sleepovers and then try to find solutions. for example, i found out that i was scared of what the "leader" of my gang would think. i then found out as a solution that she wouldn't judge me because she never did before with anything else. if anybody has questions i can answer you :)
I’m going to camp next week and my anxiety has been making me crazy and I’ve been really scared and worried and frustrated and having meltdowns because I need six camp I went to the same place and ended up going home and crying for the entire week so I am really worried about going to a camp again
i’m going for a sleepover tomorrow then going out the next day, i’ve been excited all week but now i’m packing my bag i’m getting anxious. i’m going straight from school to my friends house then coming home sometime saturday. my parents weren’t too sure about letting me go because i’ve gone home early at sleepovers multiple times, and they have said they can’t pick me up this time because they’ll be busy. how can i stop this?
I love spending time with my friends and i love sleeping over but thes new years was the only time i actually did it. i’m currently sitting on the couch at my friends house at 6am waiting for my mom because i can’t breath and i feel like throwing up. and i don’t even know how or why this happens.
I am going to my friends hours tomorrow for a sleep over and I go an dall I think about is my mum won’t let me go to a sleepover if I keep coming home at night so sometimes I just stay up all night and force myself to sleep
Camhs in uk is shit and doesn’t help I’ve been in the past and it was shit so I didn’t go again and I was made to go again recently. My school got me to go to camhs and I just hate camhs they don’t help at all they make it worse (that’s my opinion others might think differently)
I have the same thing! Sometimes I don’t even want to try to get better because I’m scared and I don’t want to even be put in that position ever again. I’m just stuck right now.
I went to the dartford branch, and overall I have had a good experience, my doctor lady who prescribed the medicine wasn’t great, as she said stuff that my therapist didn’t agree with, and the fact she left soon before our final appointment but she couldn’t help that, so yeah I’d recommend it :)
I am the exact same. I really love hanging out with my friends but im too nervous to tell them i dont like sleeping over. Usually i cry there or get so scared that im going to be sick that i actually do get sick.
