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You all provide such good insight. I absolutely know my thinking is irrational, which is the most frustrating part. If I don’t fall asleep quickly, my thoughts immediately go to “oh no, I can’t sleep. I’ll be up all night and feel absolutely miserable. It will ruin the joy of tomorrow because I’ll be irritable, etc. And what if I have to call in sick to work because I feel so terrible?” I know these thoughts need to chang and I need to practice rephrasing them,but getting myself to believe them is the problem. I absolutely hate the way I feel when I don’t sleep, so I try too hard to actually sleep, which results in the opposite effect. If I have anything going on the next day, whether it be fun, work related, or something else I find myself having the thought, for example: ‘if I don’t sleep, I won’t enjoy it, be successful etc. Toxic thoughts, I know. It’s just been so many years of these that it’s hard to rewire my thought processes. I appreciate all of your input!
I’m not quite sure. I think I always convince myself that by staying in bed I will somehow relax enough to fall asleep, even though it rarely happens. I’ve started getting up and going downstairs to read for 20-30 min and then retrying but this hasn’t helped. I haven’t tried repeatedly doing that, which I believe is suggested. I just have a hard time shutting my brain down at night and stopping the toxic thoughts when they start.
