25 years severe chronic insomnia-please help!

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    chronsombch
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      Hello everyone. This is my very 1st post (anywhere) and I am beyond desperate. Here’s a little bit of my history: My insomnia began when my youngest son was 3 years old. In a week, he will be 28, so that makes 25 years I have been struggling with this. Also, my son Michael passed away in 2015. As the years have gone by it has gotten so bad! Like many of the posts I have read on this site, I have tried everything from Melatonin, hypnosis, sleep schedules and hygiene, neurofeedback (very cool playing video games using only my brain) as well as every sleep med, benzo and antidepressant, etc. I have seen many, many docs and no one really had a permanent solution. I go days without sleeping-usually no more that 4 days, although I have gone 5 days. At this point (I am 53 years old), My body can no longer tolerate no sleeping/no healing. I am on my 3rd day/night so there’s still some focus with my addled brain. I will check back-hopefully someone has some advise. Thank you!!!

      #34698
      Glynis
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        Hi chronsombch,
        You should really try Martin’s free sleep training course. It has helped me sooo much. I’m in the third week of implementing the CBTI strategies and am sleeping better than I was before I did his course.
        Regards
        Glynis

        #34802
        Martin Reed
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          You have certainly tried a lot of things, but I didn’t see cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) in your list. Is this something you’ve tried?

          Your insomnia doesn’t sound unusual in any way, so I have no reason to believe that you wouldn’t find CBT-I to be helpful at getting your sleep back on track.

          You might also like the podcast episode where I talk to Jeff — he often found it hard to fall asleep but when he gained additional job responsibilities and became a parent, those difficult nights became more common and this led to a lot of sleep-related fear, worry, and anxiety.

          I think you’ll find that you have a lot in common with his story and that of others who once struggled with insomnia and improved their sleep using CBT-I techniques.

          Good luck, and I hope this helped!

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