[Josephine8810]

Six months ago, I began to feel depressed every day due to work pressure.In the beginning, I tried running every day to adjust my mood and state.But, I don’t know when I started to lose sleep at night, my heart told me that I should go to bed earlier, but the truth is, I lay in bed tossing and turning for hours and could not fall asleep.After such a period of time, I want to try to improve my insomnia, so I read books and drink some water before going to bed to help me fall asleep.Yes, I failed again.Now it’s getting worse and worse. I can’t sleep almost all night and feel very negative about everything.

[wsh]

Hi Josephine,

Sorry to hear about your troubles. Don’t worry – things can get much better. What you are going through is very very common, and you are definitely not a failure for having depression and insomnia. They are closely linked together. May I suggest you take a look at some of the courses on offer by the Australian mental health group “This Way Up”. (www.thiswayup.org.au). They have a free online course on insomnia, and the cost of their courses on anxiety and depression are very low. I got a lot of help out of these courses, and they are anonymous and confidential.

All the best to you.

[Faithlessinsomnia]

Hi Josephine!

I had the same problem as you. Around 4-5 years ago.
I had a stressful experience with a Government Work programme (I’m British) I was unemployed at the time. I was forced to go and look for work at an place called Prospects. We all had to go one to three times a week to look for jobs, or get our benefit money (Welfare)
stopped. I was not sleeping because of this.
I then got a job and started work. I have to add that during the interview for this job I hadn’t slept the night before.
So my first day was not great. Over the coming days I still wasn’t sleeping.
Then my company was to move to North London.
I had to travel four hours to work and back. It was awful!
Over the next 4 months I had to do this, day in, day out……total hell. I have to say that the first day I started this job …..I started hearing voices…..from the sleep deprivation. It was heart and mind breaking! All in all I worked 5 months there.
During those five months I was prescribed Quetiapine (Seraquel) for the voices, and to help me sleep.
In the 5 months I worked there I slept ….you know real sleep, for 7 weeks. 7weeks of real sleep because of the meds. It was a nightmare. Then I fell ill because the voices were still there!
I rang in sick to say I couldn’t come to work one day. …….They sacked me over the phone.
I was glad. I could finally recover at home. I got lot’s of sleep after that. I was finally able to recover!
I was elated! The voices were being kept under control and I could finally sleep normally.
I felt so much better.

[Martin Reed]

Hello Josephine8810 — I’m sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep. Can you tell us a bit more about your current sleep pattern? When do you normally go to bed at night, when do you get out of bed to start your day, and roughly how many hours of sleep would you say you get on a typical night?

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