[elli]

hey scott,

thanks again for your message 🙂

i´ll try to avoid the clock watching, thanks for the explanation.
but how do i stop this “inner clock” that wakes me up around 5?

before insomnia i got around 7 hours of sleep, so the 5 hours feel not enough, but i feel ok-ish resting wise. still i am so looking forward to an extra 1 or 2 hours, as you can imagine!

since i found all the information on the insomnia coach podcast and youtube videos i feel so much better, knowing that there are so many people who feel the same und who made such good progress using cbti techniques. before i was laying in bed awake for hours worring about how insomnia would take a toll on my health and how the next day would be terrible, which it often was 😉 i had all the avoiding of social activities going on and all the “sleep rituals” that were obviously so counterproductive, i got rid of all of them and started implementing bedtime restriction, which already improved the times i wake up during the night to once and that is only a very short window and i fall back asleep within minutes.

now i try not to fokus on sleep or the lack of it during the day and to do everything as normal as possible and enjoy my life as well as my work.

thank you again for your support!

elli

[elli]

hey scott,

thank you for your reply! is it better to maybe set an alarm for 6 and not look at the clock when i wake up? at all? it is kind of a challenge not no be confronted with the actual time, as soon as i get up… 😉

do you have any experience how long it takes to see improvement in the overall time one is able to sleep when applying bedtime restriction?

thank you so much in advance!

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