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My experience is definitely telling me that I haven’t lost the ability to sleep. I’m just having a hard time getting my brain and anxiety to see it. I find that I’ll have 1 or 2 nights in my bed and then the pressure/anxiety to keep it going builds and Im back on the sofa to get a few hours of sleep and the cycle starts all over again.

Over the last month I have slowly dismantled all my sleep rituals and then when I was ready I weaned myself off of all sleeping aids. I put off those steps of for weeks if not months due to fear…. but I got there. I feel like the sofa is the next step and I am trying to get to a place where I am ready to face the challenge/fear of giving it up/moving away from it.

Right now I make the sofa up every night with a duvet and pillow before I go to bed to sleep ” just incase”. When I am ready I will stop this ritual (typing this was the first time I realized that this was yet another sleep ritual) and if I need to get out of bed I will but the sofa will be used as a place to read or watch a bit of tv until I feel tired enough to go back to the bedroom. It’ll probably take a while and a lot of back and forth but hopefully my brain will see the bed/bedroom as less of a threat over time.

Any other suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

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