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Wanted to give you a separate reply for an insomnia hack. The best thing I ever did was find someone who did cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Ultimately inso
by crazydoggers 8y ago
Wanted to give you a separate reply for an insomnia hack. The best thing I ever did was find someone who did cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Ultimately insomnia is self perpetuating because we start to have anxiety about not being able to sleep, which fires up our fight or flight responses. Our body then starts to automatically associate bedtime with anxiety.
If you can find someone who treats anxiety with CBT they should be able to cure you of the insomnia.
If you can’t, then the best advice I ever got was to simply repeat to yourself, it’s not a big deal. “Maybe I’ll stay awake all night. Who cares. It won’t kill me. Even laying with my eyes closed is recuperative.” Basically don’t fight the insomnia or anxiety it produces. If you can just stop caring about it, eventually your nervous system will catch up.
Also make sure you don’t have sleep apnea... that can also cause anxiety because you’re choking on a nightly basis.
- Matticus_Rex 8y agoThere's an insomnia-specific CBT practice (CBTI) which is more targeted than general anxiety.