It's Not Anxiety, Then Insomnia. It's Anxiety and Insomnia, Feeding Each Other. Introduction Notice how the more anxious you feel, the harder sleep becomes to reach? Or how, after a genuinely poor night, the next day's worries suddenly feel bigger and harder to manage than they probably are? If either of these sounds familiar, you're describing a pattern that's extremely common not a personal failing in either your sleep or your nervous system. Anxiety and insomnia tend to mo