sleep help: I can’t sleep.

Kaitey

I can’t sleep.

Again.

I get the occasional nights where I can’t sleep, but they really drive me crazy.
This is a touchy issue with me, insomnia affects me more than it should because I know what its hold is like, I’ve seen it all before, I couldn’t sleep for 15 months and it sucks the life out of everything.
Frustratingly, it also means that when I can’t sleep straight off I start to worry about it, which only makes it worse.
I’ve got a pile of sleep hygiene booklets, from various doctors and psychologists, I know the score, I know how you’re supposed to sort it, but nothing works, I just can’t keep my eyes shut. I’m supposed to just LET myself get physically and emotionally drained?
I’m irritated now. Angry at the world, the system… Next will come anger at myself, then a hell of a lot of self pity, I’ll thrash about, cry, fall back into old, bad, habits, and wake up all those old demons, and they’ll stick around for the next few hours or days, making me miserable and unfriendly…
I just wanna break the cycle, y’know? I still get nights like this, its part of the healing process, blah blah, but MAN I just want to get on with my life now. For the first time in the last two and a half years I’m actually going somewhere, I have a future that doesn’t involve pins, and hiding, and “too much responsibility” and then something like this happens, and all the memories come back to laugh at me.

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tjwoods 26 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (10 minutes after post)

From the sounds of it the usual advice about getting better sleep is not news to you. Were you sleeping well for a while, and then you started having trouble again?

Kaitey 7 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (14 minutes after post)

Ja, the post is more of rant.
Been sleeping normally for about 3 months, bit more maybe.
Its just incredibly frustrating for me to get sleepless nights, because when i had insomnia my life basically fell apart in a very short space of time.
Theres nothing anyone can say really, but I felt the need to let it out this time.

Help me with: It Is Not Fair.

tjwoods 26 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (18 minutes after post)

I’m glad to hear that you are doing better than before at least. Sometimes it is nice just to get it all out in a rant, and a rant can actually be really helpful for other people who have similar problems but aren’t sure how to ask about them.

Did you have specific things that you changed that helped you sleep better before, or was it just getting past a rough time of life or something? I’m just curious because a lot of people post here looking for help with insomnia.

Kaitey 7 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (42 minutes after post)

My insomnia began August ‘07… and didn’t ease up until October ‘08. I found that getting out of my house helped a lot. I started staying out more, and i spend maybe half the nights in a week staying somewhere else now, which does a lot of good, because it keeps me away from stuff that affect my sleep… Getting out of the bad enviroment is the best way forward I’d say.

Help me with: It Is Not Fair.

chocoyt7 0 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months ago (2 weeks after post)

Avoid eating large meals or spicy foods before bedtime.

Exercise and practice relaxation techniques. If you suffer cramps during sleep, trying using a heating pad and massage to alleviate some of the discomfort.

Invest in a mouthpiece for protection and possibly think about physical therapy to prevent or treat bruxism (teeth grinding).

Avoid watching frightening or disturbing images on television or in the newspaper

Keep your sleeping area relatively cool, but not cold.

Purchase sleeping medication–stimulants if you suffer from narcolepsy and sleeping pills for insomnia. Both medications should be short-term treatments only.
http://www.ehow.com/how_116047_remedy…
http://www.askaquery.com/question/10-…
www.journalsleep.org/
www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/sleep/
www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders

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