[ddillon923]

Goodness, I am jst not getting enough physical rest for my healing body like this. I have upped sleep window to 7 hours and am just being okay with having more time awake in bed if it means resting. So much adrenaline, so much pain. This is so hard!!

[ddillon923]

I was rechecking my average nightly sleep and it’s really more like 5.25-5.5 hours. So I think I will try getting up at 5, even with the darkness…I could really use some encouragement and tips. It’s hard to bear my physical health issues in my neck and eyes and my anxious sensations and thoughts without good rest at night. Sleep restriction and stimulus control and ACT worked well for me a few years ago but I was not dealing with this other health stuff at that time, nor was I as sensitized. So this is a bit harder for me than that time.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 weeks ago by ddillon923.

[ddillon923]

I want to add, for anyone who comes across this, that the DARE response book has been helping me immensely in recent days with the panic and anxiety. I came across it via Martin’s recommendation on this site a few days back and ordered the audiobook. Things are still very hard but I am already seeing improvement in my mental/emotional state through these techniques. I recommend it!!

[ddillon923]

Thank you so much for your practical and very compassionate response, Martin.

[ddillon923]

Is it okay to just cry in the night?

[ddillon923]

Sigh, I took trazodone for two nights and it upset my stomach.
Last night I fell asleep (before taking the medication) after using my thoughts to think about all my friends and pray for them. Then woke up almost immediately with a jerk. I was so weary afterward that I just couldn’t face lying there trying to manage my brain and doing more and more praying. I turned on the light and sat up, but was soooo weary doing that. In the past I have managed hypnic jerks by telling myself this is a good sign, that I’m going to sleep! But last night I just got so upset that I took trazodone. I slept some after this but not very long.
How to deal with the weariness and depression in the middle of the night?

What should I think about when I get into bed and I’m trying to go to sleep but trying not to try? Especially when I feel those little jerks responding with alarm to my beginning to fall asleep?

[ddillon923]

P.S. Most nights I am insanely sleepy by the time I go to bed at 11:15 — like I can’t even see straight and risk falling asleep every time I blink. My wake-up time is 5:45; sometimes I wake up naturally at 5:15 or 5:30, though, and get up then.

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