[1949Molly]

A short time ago I was getting a good sleep (6 hours) for a few nights in a row. Then it all went sour. I either wake up time and time again all night fretting about one thing or another. Or I wake up at 4:30am and can't get back to sleep. This doesn't seem to be related to my job (which it has in the past big time!) but it started when I started a volunteer job helping out at a little farm/horse stable. I'm getting more exercise and fresh air than I was for a while, but this doesn't seem to be the major factor in my latest sleep problem. I'm getting into the being afraid to go to bed thing again. I take 3 different sleeping pills and with the lousy sleep I get even with the pills I don't see going off them any time soon. What I don't understand is how can doing an activity that I really want to do, getting fresh air and more exercise make my sleep worse? Any ideas would help.

[Martin Reed]

'1949Molly' wrote:

A short time ago I was getting a good sleep (6 hours) for a few nights in a row. Then it all went sour. I either wake up time and time again all night fretting about one thing or another. Or I wake up at 4:30am and can't get back to sleep. This doesn't seem to be related to my job (which it has in the past big time!) but it started when I started a volunteer job helping out at a little farm/horse stable. I'm getting more exercise and fresh air than I was for a while, but this doesn't seem to be the major factor in my latest sleep problem. I'm getting into the being afraid to go to bed thing again. I take 3 different sleeping pills and with the lousy sleep I get even with the pills I don't see going off them any time soon. What I don't understand is how can doing an activity that I really want to do, getting fresh air and more exercise make my sleep worse? Any ideas would help.

I think for many of us, that's actually a cause of our insomnia – the fear of it striking. I don't know if I've asked you this before, but have you looked into cognitive behavioral therapy?

Any idea why you went through the positive stretch of good sleep? At least that proves you are capable of sleep!

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