[RLP]

I am doing the 2 week CBTI course and also take an anti anxiety pill nightly. I am weaning slowly off the pill while doing the course. Do you think it wise to wean while doing the course at the same time?

[Chee2308]

Talk to your doctor first if you have any concerns. But if ask me, it doesn’t really matter. Sleep is separate from what you do or feel or think. Any connection you make is entirely fictitious and exist only inside your mind, as long as keep making these decisions based on how you think it affects your sleep, you will always have difficulty sleeping because ultimately you are still very scared. You won’t sleep well as long as you have fear.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Chee2308.

[RLP]

How do you get rid of the fear of being scared?
I know it’s in my head, but seems to crop up every evening.
Any suggestions on how to combat that?

[Chee2308]

For most recovered people, they start getting used to it. Be willing to sit with the fear and see what it’s all about. Stop hiding and running away because nothing of this nature can actually hurt you physically. Then slowly you realize there’s really nothing there at all. It’s all just a set of thoughts and how you relate to them. Thoughts can do nothing unless you start taking them seriously. Your sleep works on an entirely different level and has nothing to do with what’s going on inside your head. All you need is just stick to your sleep window! This is really important. Ignore everything else, stop researching sleep, stop listening to ideas or trying quick fixes, stop talking about it, stop fretting when you start waking up more and earlier because this is normal as your sleep improves, just quit trying to figure this out and things will start settling into place.

[Martin Reed]

Often, when we try to get rid of a feeling, thought, or emotion, that feeling, thought, or emotion pushes back even harder and is more likely to push us away from the kind of life we want to live.

Sometimes it can be helpful to acknowledge thoughts, feelings, and emotions instead — and even to make a bit of space for them. To allow them to come and go as they please, while continuing to engage in actions that help us move toward the kind of life we want to live.

This way, we can end the struggle and focus on living instead.

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