The Role of Sleep in Anxiety

A study in the National Library of Medicine found that anxiety was 23% down to genetic factors. Being tired puts us in a fight or flight response, so we pump out more adrenaline and cortisol which makes you feel more anxious - making it harder to sleep. So there's a real kind of vicious cycle happening when it comes to sleep and anxiety. But please don't feel downhearted if you can really see in your family that there's a strong you know, lineage of anxiety running through," she says.