[Lilli23]

Hi all,

my biggest challenge at the moment is falling off to sleep. I also sometimes wake up too early.

I believe my issues started when I was moving house and having lots of work stress. When those issues calmed down I expected my sleep to go back to normal, however the issues have persisted.

I have tried numerous things to help me sleep including reducing my caffeine intake, exercising more, taking supplements, seeing a hypnotherapist, meditating daily (which I enjoy but hasn’t helped with sleep much),over the counter pills but nothing seems to have helped much.

Now I have got to the point where I’m so worried every single day about whether I’ll sleep at night that I’m not enjoying my life and I’d really love to get my life back.

[Martin Reed]

I’m sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep, Lilli23. The good news is, the way you described how your insomnia developed is in no way unusual.

Sleep becomes disrupted usually due to a recognizable event (in your case, it was probably moving house and work stress). However, instead of sleep recovering when the initial event is no longer an issue, sometimes the sleep problems become entrenched. This usually happens when we start to spend a lot more time thinking (and worrying) about sleep and trying to compensate for poor sleep.

Typical behaviors we implement to improve our sleep include spending more time in bed, trying to conserve energy during the day, canceling plans, calling in sick to work, napping during the day, going to bed earlier, staying in bed later, spending time researching sleep and thinking about sleep, and trying endless supplements or over-the-counter pills.

Unfortunately, all of these behaviors actually make sleep worse — and this perpetuates the problem.

More good news for you — cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques are specifically designed to address all the perpetuating factors of insomnia. I am, therefore, quite confident that you will find CBT-I very helpful and that the techniques will allow you to get your sleep back on track.

I hope this helps!

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