Hi.

As the title says I'm having a lot of nightmares. I stopped writing down my dreams and just with lucid dreaming in general for a long time because busy with life, so I started forgetting most of my dreams.
Now I started writing them down again a few days ago and only nightmares started to come to the surface. It's not the ''regular'' nightmares either, it's extremely vivid, horrible and graphic everytime. When I wake up they can leave me feeling depressed and scared to go to sleep in the evening. I already had one lucid dream after just a couple of days which was extremely uncomfortable and I managed to wake up by will after a while (I know, lost opportunity to make it a good dream but I was too scared).

I've had severe anxiety issues this last year, and the anxiety has made me scared and very skittish in general which I believe is the reason for this. Mostly because lucid dreaming never scared me before, even after having nightmares.
I'm trying to solve the anxiety issue separately already of course, but does it seem like a bad idea to jump into lucid dreaming again during this kind of situation? Where I'm not exactly mentally stable. I want to, I feel motivated to lucid dream but this is ruining it right now. The fear is horrible.
I would also love any kind of advice on different methods to rationalize the fear in my head.

Thank you in advance! All kinds of perspectives are appreciated.


TL;DR: Approach for lucid dreaming while mentally unstable and very scared?