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Thanks for the response Daf (and Martin),
Reading your previous posts Daf (very verbose, amusing and insightful – ever thought about being a sleep coach? Sorry, Irony there). I’ve read your posts backwards from desperation to recovery and it’s very heartening to find your recovery as wayward and random as mine seems to be, the fact that you got there in the end is encouraging. At one point though it was like reading a thriller backwards. The consistent thing for insomniacs is how similar our stories are. We think that our condition is more virulent and vicious than others, only to realize we are all predictably the same – and here was me thinking I was ‘special’ – pah!
Anyway, onward and upwards. I think the keys is ‘acceptance’ (how can something seemingly so obvious be so bloody hard? P.S. And you’re right about ‘controlling’ ‘driven’ personalities) Also continual SC and SR which has been working for me. And… AND, stop bloody obsessing about it. Which clearly is working writing this response. Oh well, humour still here even if the ‘Z’zzzz’s’ aren’t.Hi Daf,
I know that it’s a delayed response to this post but was wondering the time it took you from poor periods of bad sleep to now five months of continuous good sleep? I find this encouraging. Presently have had two weeks of good sleep (which after 15 years of this stuff is real progress) but now in the run of poor sleep without any rhyme or reason. Did CBTI get you to this enviable place? I was a client of Martin, (who was an excellent sleep specialist) and graduated recently. Am sticking with the SC and SR but just find it maddening that I’m back to where I was. Any tips?
I Know the feeling. I often laugh when i catch myself doing a similar thing at 3am, I look like an assassin ballet dancer. I always find prepping before a good idea (glass of water, book ready). Sometimes candlelight works to lower light pollution but mostly a sympathetic flatmate/partner helps.
