Evening activities and routines

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    Brent
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      I feel like my need for sleep, or my sleep worry cycle is limiting my evening life.

      Prior to the insomnia cycle I’ve been in for about 5 months, I never worried about following an evening “sleep hygiene ” routine. I could watch the news (with disturbing recent events like war or climate change) , go see a live band, do tasks like fixing bikes in my workshop, or the family budget – and I still got to sleep in a reasonable time.

      After this insomnia cycle started, I feel like I need to have a full evening “wind down” routine. I worry if I have to go out in the evening, or watch the news 2 hours before bed it will screw up my sleep. Sometimes, my wife likes to have a conversation before bed about important stuff like how our adult children are doing. More recently I’ve become defensive, worrying about those things impacting my sleep. So I tell my wife, can we put this off until the morning? This was rarely a worry before. I would rather like to not worry about it and not be so dependant on this “routine”.

      Is this compensating behaviour impacting my sleep Is my always trying to follow a “wind down” routine unconsciously impacting my sleep? Should I just try to live my evenings with what I want to do?

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