How to use stimulus control skills

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    Helensong
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      I have been told that if you can sleep at night, you should get up to do something boring till you are sleepy, then go back to bed. I often sleep lightly, but completely, should I get up ?

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      Chee2308
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        You really don’t have to get out of bed if you don’t want to. The choice is entirely yours. What’s the norm for you when you couldn’t sleep in the past before your insomnia, did you get up or not and then just continue doing that. What worked before will work now, nothing about your sleep changed, it’s your thoughts towards sleep that has. And nobody wants to do boring stuff any time of the day either! Let alone get out of a comfy bed and then go pretending to enjoy doing it just to go back to sleep is a pretty ludicrous idea.

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