[SUSIE]

I’m just starting out on my CBT-i journey, (this will be my third night) and i want to thank you all for sharing your experiences. They are helping me in so many ways. I’m guessing the next few weeks may be challenging but being able to come on to the forum and read all the success stories is wonderful. If y’all can do it then so can I! Thankyou all again for your stories.
Susie.

[Martin Reed]

I am so encouraged to read your post, Susie — and I admire you for taking positive steps towards better sleep for the long-term! As you rightly pointed out, if others can be successful, you can be successful, too! How are you getting on since you posted?

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[SUSIE]

hi martin, thanks for the repy! I’m doing great! Really interesting to read that post i made on my thrid night in. Oh boy, those first few days were so hard and it was good to be able to read the success stories of other people. But even after just a few days i could see that the program was going to work for me. Things continued to be hard for a couple of weeks but I’m almost 4 weeks in now and there have been lots of changes. I’m not going to lie, i’ve often felt like a zombie at times, but i think i may be over the worst. One of my biggest problems was staying awake until the bedtime i set for myself at midnight. I was so tired but i didnt dare sit down on a couch. I had to stay sitting on a hard stool or walk around. I started going to the movies and that helped as long as it was a noisy action movie with lots of car chases. Not my usual kind of movie but i was looking for anything to help me stay awake until bedtime. In the end i came up with the idea of going to the gym for a couple of hours between 8 and 10pm. I actually fell asleep on one of the machines a couple of times (haha!) but overall it worked really well. I’m still going! Not only do i get to stay awake i also get to up my fitness. So now i’m going to bed at 11.30 until 6am. I fall asleep pretty much straight away and i’m sleeping better every night. Usually have to get up once in the night to go to the loo but i’m able to go straight back to bed and fall asleep quite quickly. Things seem to be improving just a little bit every night. I have this wonderful feeling of empowerment and i’m starting to feel normal again. I had got to a place of feeling very desperate so i now feel incredibly grateful to have found this program. Thankyou!

[TodaysEscape]

Susie, Thanks for sharing your experience here. Looks like you are well on your way to perfect sleep. Good luck and keep us posted please.

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