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My insomnia has ruled my life fir the past 13 years. Its on and off all of the time. Then I see encouraging things that say ‘6 hours may be sufficient’ which makes me feel worse because I get 5/6 hours on my best nights. My bad nights range from 0 hours to 3 hours. I worry that being tbjs way for so long is going to harm my mental/physical health.
Welcome to the forum. If I could wave a magic wand and eliminate your insomnia, what kind of things would you be doing, that you are not doing at the current time?
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Well to be honest in general I’d just be able to enjoy my life without insomnia being a constant thought on my mind. And even when it’s not at the forefront of my mind it’s always in the background. So I guess I’d be able to just enjoy everything right now as it is, as I don’t really do anything differently because of my insomnia I don’t think
I feel the same way. Everyone says if you pay attention and obsess over your insomnia it makes the problem worse but there’s no way I can’t NOT think about it. It’s completely taken over my life. You’re not alone 🙁
What kind of things have you both done to stop thinking about insomnia throughout the day? How effective have those techniques been? Have they come with any cost in terms of effort and/or missing out on things that are important to you?
If I tell you not to think about a pink elephant for the rest of the day could you do that — or did you already fail and think of a pink elephant?
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I was just having this conversation with a friend yesterday. I’ve had insomnia for five years, and it is ruining my life too. I have a (temporary) job that I love and a living situation that I want to enjoy and make the most of. I am constantly aware of how privileged and fortunate I am. But I cannot think very much about that because my insomnia is destroying my sense of self-determination and making me feel like I’m a spectator in my own life. The helplessness is so overwhelming.
I have just started CBTI with a clinical psychologist, and I believe in the therapy and trust that it will help me to some degree. But that fear of insomnia might never go away, now that the condition has become chronic, and I cannot tolerate the feeling of helplessness.
Fear is a human emotion that will exist for as long as you are a human being! Luckily, as a human being, you always get to decide how to respond to it. Do you allow it to control your behaviors in a way that moves you away from the kind of life you want to live? Or, do you acknowledge that fear and then engage in behaviors that help you move toward the kind of life you want to live, even in its presence?
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