[enzu]

I have a lot of trouble staying asleep more than 6 hours. I know I need at least seven because I have quantifiable evidence showing dramatic cognitive/physical declines when I sleep less than 7 hours.

I think my troubles are related to stress and anxiety, but most of the time I feel fine. It seems to be something subconscious, since I have no trouble falling asleep, but my mind wakes me up too early. How to tell the subconscious to stop doing that to me? Very annoyed at myself.

I feel like I’ve tried everything, feels very hopeless.

[Mac0908]

Way too vague. What’s the backstory on your sleep issues? When/why did they begin? What have you “tried”.

In any event, getting annoyed with yourself is problem #1 that’s preventing from you getting rid of this.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Mac0908.

[Jonathan618]

six hours is plenty of sleep. maybe you should concentrate on how to increase the quality of those 6 hours of sleep.

[Martin Reed]

I know we have spoken about your situation, but for others who might stumble across this post, it’s important not to feel annoyed at yourself or try to fight any anxious thoughts you might be having.

Instead, it can be very helpful to identify the thoughts that are causing anxiety (because thoughts are just thoughts — it is our response to thoughts that can lead to anxiety, not the thoughts themselves).

When you are able to identify the thought(s), you can then evaluate their accuracy. When we do this, we can often see that the thought wasn’t as accurate as it first seemed — and this can reduce the intensity of our response to that thought.

Implementing behavioral CBT-I techniques also helps build sleep drive to consolidate sleep and helps us recondition ourselves to see the bed as a place for sleep rather than wakefulness. In effect, this leads to the bed becoming a strong trigger for sleep.

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