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I've also struggled a lot with insomnia and the best advice I can give is: 1. See a therapist 2. Avoid taking sleep medication 3. Accept that you're not going
by mcntsh 4y ago
I've also struggled a lot with insomnia and the best advice I can give is:
1. See a therapist
2. Avoid taking sleep medication
3. Accept that you're not going to sleep when you aren't sleeping
If you're not taking drugs then everything that you're going through when you're not sleeping is natural. Your body is designed to go without sleep. When you haven't slept in 48 hours don't worry about "not sleeping again tonight" just accept that you may not and that's fine, and you'll sleep eventually.
Following this advice I've gotten into a rhythm where I've slept 7h a night for months. I've had maybe a couple bad nights but it never spirals out.
- tomcam 4y agoThank you. 1. I had ~15 years' therapy with multiple approaches & therapists w/out success. 2. I used to happily try any sleep medication but none works for more than a week or so, and now I take the same attitude as you. 3. I do get up and do something else when not sleeping, but lately the sleep has been so ratched I'm not as successful. Have also tried things like yoga, meditation, melatonin, milk before bed, waking at a fixed hour, eating early, eating late, not eating at all, high complex carb diet, paleo diet, exercising early in the day, exercising late in the day, not exercising, and others. Very grateful for the advice, though. I am very very open to it and am grateful for your caring.
- mcntsh 4y agoLook all I gotta say is you’re in very good company. Insomnia is extremely common, your body is designed to have it and is super equipped to deal with sleep deprivation.
- tomcam 4y agoThat’s actually very comforting, especially because I’m old and a new article comes out every other week explaining how it shortens one’s life!