[Amy]

Hi Scott

Thanks so much for your advice I will definitely consider this if I ever face really bad bouts of insomnia in the future.

Yeah I am getting better at not allowing my anxious thoughts about sleep turn into full blown panic, but I will definitely keep working on this.

Generally speaking I am a great sleeper, I am a paediatric nurse so work nightshift and dayshift often in the same week so am constantly changing my sleep patterns to accommodate work shifts and I don’t usually have much problem. I think I am just very sensitive to change, and obviously having a baby was the biggest change I had ever experienced so I just became very overwhelmed with the whole situation and my sleep is the first thing to be affected. Now that I have found this course and listened to the podcast I can say I have much more confidence in my ability to rationalise my negative thoughts about sleep when they happen.

I guess my biggest worry when I’m in the thick of it is how much my mental health will decline and will I trigger some sort of psychosis or something due to lack of sleep? (catastrophising as this has never happened)

Amy

[Amy]

Hi Scott

Thank you for getting back to me.

My daughter is actually 2 now I was actually looking for advice for the future. Would your advice be to keep the morning anchor even with a newborn baby? Would you suggest taking naps or not? I think I was very overstimulated and was awaiting her to wake up when she was really little but I have such bad anxiety about it getting so bad (5 nights) again. If I had better control next time I think I would feel much better

Amy

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