[AtRecoveryPhase]

I sleep okay almost 2 months now, but why am I still kinda anxious at night? My sleep drive is okay and I feel sleepy each night and there’s a moment where I couldn’t open my eyes because I was so sleepy, having my sleep just like before my insomnia (sleep whenever I like), but still my brain kinda wanna go into the problem solving, monitoring sleep (in the surface and not really like when I was in insomnia). Anyway I never got any therapy and just consumed free video mostly from Martin Reed, am I missing something?

[Chee2308]

The short answer is yes absolutely! And most definitely. I graduated in 2020 and has been sleeping well since then. But yes, I (and I am pretty sure everyone does!) still think about sleep and do still get a couple of bad nights every year as a result of plenty of things in life but I now know full well to not let them get completely out of hand like before.

The most important thing about thinking about sleep is usually this, does it really still bother you? If you can confidently say no, then congratulations, you don’t really have a problem. Just let those thoughts and feelings slide, they usually are very fleeting and transitory in nature like many things in life.

[AtRecoveryPhase]

Hi
Thank you for replying

I wanna ask you something

You graduated in 2020, it’s been 5 years and have you ever feeling nervous about your sleep? Is it feels the same as before your insomnia? Can you really forget insomnia and be like the old you?

[Chee2308]

I don’t feel nervous now. In the past, a bit, yes. But since then that I’ve grown out of those fears. It’s like a child has outgrown his fear of monsters in the closet.

Maybe the following scenarios help explain myself better:

Scenario 1. People who sleep well because they have not experienced any problem and therefore they don’t think anything is wrong.

Scenario 2. People who sleep well now but have had problems in the past and are now aware of potential “problems” but they also know these are not real problems and therefore they do nothing and don’t worry about it.

Well, before 2020, I belong to 1. After my recovery, I am now 2. But the sleep is still exactly the same.

[Martin Reed]

Thoughts and feelings are human. Sleep can happen no matter what thoughts and feelings are present. So, yes — it is normal to still think about sleep 🙂

Trying to fight or avoid thoughts and feelings is understandable and it often pulls us into an exhausting (and endless) battle with our minds. And sleep is perhaps less likely to happen if we engaged in a war!

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