[gabyrosalesf]

Hello everybody,
My name is Mari. I started having sleep problems in January of this year as I had a lot of stress at work. I slept about 3 hours per night from January to March. I always woke up at 2 or 3 in the morning and couldn’t go back to sleep. In April I started a new job, which wasn’t stressful at all, but I still couldn’t sleep. I joined a gym, but it didn’t help. I went to the doctor and he suggested that I take breathing classes. This helped, but I was still only able to sleep 5 hours a night, 2 hours longer than before. In August I started a new job in a new country and my problem has been worse than ever. I only sleep about two hours. It is very stressful at night and I have started to have negative thoughts. I don’t want to go on living like this. I would like to take some sleeping pills because this year so far I haven’t been able to sleep more than 6 hours straight.
Please give me some advice.
I’ll thank you very much.
Greetings,
Mari

[Macadamia]

Not sleeping is hell. Do you have a doctor in the new country you are in? I see a sleep doctor (neurologist) here in the United States.

[gabyrosalesf]

Thanks for the answer.
No, I’m new to Oslo and I’ve been trying to find a sleep doctor or therapist.
I have thought about joining different courses in my free time that will help me forget my sleep problems because I think about my insomnia all day.

[Macadamia]

CBT-I therapists are hard to find. There are only 2 in my city of 1,000,000 people, Austin, Texas. CBT-I can be hard to do. It’s good there is a sleep restriction forum here. I also like the money back guarantee. I’ve ordered the 2 books recommended here: The Sleep Book by Guy Meadows and The Effortless Sleep Method by Sasha Stephens. I like to read and hope the books help me. I hope we both find answers for the insomnia monster.

[Martin Reed]

How are you getting on @gabyrosalesf?

It sounds as though you are able to pinpoint when your sleep issues began — and it’s very common for this to happen at a time of change or stress.

Usually, sleep recovers by itself — but sometimes it doesn’t. When it doesn’t, that’s usually because we start to think and worry about sleep more than we ever did before. Usually, we also introduce compensatory behaviors such as spending more time in bed or trying different supplements that actually perpetuate the problem.

From what you’ve described, you sound like a great candidate for cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques. Have you tried anything like this?

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