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hi there
yes i live my life normally and try my best to accept the fear, my main thing is just dealing with the boredom i feel during the night. so when i get up to try and distract myself i feel no energy to do anything i actually enjoy like draw or something, i try and put a movie on but i just feel sick to my stomach watching a movie instead of sleeping. im just so bored of lying there awake distracting myself when i know my brain and body crave sleep.
hi scott
youre right. its just hard knowing when it hits a point when the anxious thoughts come and then gives that physical reaction that you know it means youre fight or flight has now been triggered which means youre only gonna get 4 or less hours sleep. and then the fact i was almost getting a normal sleep again only for it to be taken away from me because i was so happy about sleeping normal has just made me think im never going to get out of this. once i get normal sleep again, i feel its going to be ruined by the fact im like wow im sleeping normal again! it’s almost like it triggers the pressure to sleep again
i am but i have quite a busy social life which does involve not following the cbt i techniques because im going to bed so late – i get up at the same time everyday during the weekday but at the weekend when ive been out i let myself sleep in an hour or 2 more because i thought it was fine due to somewhat nearly sleeping normally again for a few days. but apparently i cant even have that luxury. ive just been staying so optimistic and positive for weeks now and im horrified that i let all the anger and depression consume me again all because i was getting better. it just feels never ending.
