[Jake240904]

Hi everyone,
I thought things had improved, that I had my sleep related worries under control, but last night was awful. Not stressed in the slightest, but I couldn’t sleep all night. I started off by reacting positively, which worked relatively well for a while. A few hours ago my anxiety cropped up again and I had several panick attacks. Now the thought of lying in bed with my eyes closed is evoking fear and stress. I’m so exhausted and need to sleep as I have an exam tomorrow and this week is a very busy and important one.
Any pieces of advice from anyone? Thank you all for reading this.

[Chee2308]

Hi Jake!
How much are you sleeping before you hit another bump? Do you have a really liberal bedtime schedule? Where you go to bed at a fixed time but are really lax about getting out by frequently sleeping in because you actually find you could sleep? And perhaps taking naps during the day as well because you thought you can celebrate now (maybe thinking yay!, all my sleep problems are solved, I don’t need to worry about insomnia anymore!) because you are sleeping well again? Well there are consequences to oversleeping, and this manifests themselves as having difficulties dozing off, getting only light sleep, having frequent awakenings and the anxiety that comes rushing back because you don’t understand why this is all happening all over again makes them worse. It was all those oversleeping that got you into trouble in the first place and now they’re coming back because you are repeating the same mistakes. Restrict your bedtime to make your nights more regular, or continue to adopt a really relaxed undisciplined approach to sleep but expect those difficult nights to happen because they will. Nothing wrong with either method, your nightly average will still stay the same over the long term, but you will be worrying unnecessarily over nothing.

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