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The pandemic will be over soon – the vaccine is coming and this will end. Listen to MArtins podcast and it makes you realise you are not on your own. His methods really really do work.
I wish you lots of luck in your journey to get better and you WILL get better. Have hope. its so tough for so many people in different ways but there is light at the end of this grim tunnel
thanks so much scott – getting less anxious at night now which is helping. just reading this forum and realising im not on my own is something in itself! fingers crossed!
Thank you for responding. It really varies but I suppose the overriding factor is waking after 2 hours sleep with racing heart beat and alertness. I then lie awake for hours and might get another hour early in the morning if im lucky. I get out of bed every day at 7. usually going to bed when I think I feel sleepy (although I very rarely feel the kind of sleepy I used to) around 11.30pm. When I wake in the night, sometimes I get out of bed and go downstairs and make myself a tea – try to calm down and do some breathing exercises which sometimes does help. However it is dark and very cold here at the moment so id rather stay in bed which just perpetuates the anxiety i suppose.
HAving listened to Martins podcast, I think i am conditioned now to thinking of the bed as an anxious space. and need to break this negative thought pattern. That really made sense to me. However im abit confused as he says if i am calculating my sleep window – 4 hours – i must go to bed when i am sleepy – does that mean i must get up at say 4.30am? in the dark and cold?! when often i will have only had 2 hours sleep in that time?
I wonder if i got a kettle in my room and got up to read in the night in a chair rather than going downstairs would that be okay? it might be less arousing than going walk about down the house but still work to break the cycle of the bed being a place for not sleeping?
I thought i would carry on trying to implement some strategies on my own with the help of Martins emails and the forum. If this doesn t help than i was going to enrol in one to one coaching in the new year when children are back at school.
what i feel i have realised is that i probably am an anxious person which i would never have described myself as in the past. def glass have empty kind of person. the insonomia loves that stuff!
would welcome your thoughts?
