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I continually wake up more or less every hour. Then in between the short times of sleep I am wide awake for hours. Would love to stay asleep for a longer period of time!
Hi SleeplessSarah, it sounds like you are going through the mill right now…..if you peruse the forum, you will read about sleep anxiety, which does seem to be the primary driver of insomnia. If we worry about sleep, small wonder we cannot. Yeah, yeah, but what to do when you are stuck? I found that when I would start sinking into despair, I would realize that it was the insomnia talking. Sometimes I would go for weeks while I would forget this.
I also realized I was giving power to insomnia, like you with your moniker SleeplessSarah sort of making insomnia my identity, when actually we all are so much more than that.
Not to say there could not be other causes for insomnia. Waking up repeatedly after only an hour or so, it sounds like when I had untreated sleep apnea. A sleep study and a CPAP took care of the sleep apnea, one of the components of insomnia for a lot of people. Maybe this is going on for you?
I hope you stick with the forum and check out Martin’s videos and emails. We really are all in this together.
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