[sleepybre]

Hey there,

 

I am looking for suggestions. Recently I have developed some pretty bad anxiety at night. From researching online, it sounds quite normal. I have trouble facing my own thoughts and have resorted to falling asleep with Netflix on to drown out those thoughts. For the past few months I have been falling asleep to Family Guy. Probably the worst TV show I could fall asleep to. It’s getting to the point where I actually wake up when the TV stops playing, and have to put it back on to fall asleep again. I’m not sure what to do. I have tried listening to sleep meditation tracks, but it doesn’t put me to sleep as quickly. I wake up feeling groggy and unrested. Has anyone else developed some kind of dependency on TV to sleep? Looking to improve my sleep hygiene.

 

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[Martin Reed]

Hello sleepybre and welcome to the forum.

The TV can certainly serve as a good distraction, but if you are sleeping in front of the TV throughout the entire night, your sleep quality might not be as good as it would be without the TV on.

Since you are watching TV at night to help you sleep this suggests that you are either watching TV in bed, or you are falling asleep on the couch. Unfortunately, both of these strategies are not ideal if the long-term aim is to reduce your reliance on the TV as a sleep aid and to help you associate the bed with sleep.

Do you remember what triggered your nighttime anxiety? Was there a specific event, or do you think this came about as a result of repeated bad experiences trying to sleep at night?

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