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Thanks for sharing. The thoughts and feelings you described can be very difficult indeed.
Do you find that lying around after work is an effective way of responding to the presence of the fatigue you described? Does that get rid of the fatigue and help you better live the kind of life you want to live?
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Waking during the night is a normal part of sleep, so nothing too unusual there! When you wake, why do you feel you are unable to fall back to sleep?
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Your confusion is understandable, Genie! We’ll be covering this in a lot of detail in Week 2 of the course — but there’s no need to force yourself to get out of bed just because you’re awake! What we are looking to do is practice responding to wakefulness with less struggle, since it’s the struggle that tends to make things more difficult.
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Hello Fady! Can you share with us all the things you’ve tried up to this point, in an effort to get rid of that anxiety?
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It sounds as though you might be a little bit tangled up in trying to make sleep happen and trying to get rid of wakefulness — sometimes, when that’s our focus, things can remain a bit difficult since we cannot directly control sleep.
CBT-I techniques are intended to help tackle the behaviors that can perpetuate sleep disruption — they cannot make sleep happen. Quite often, the more we try to control sleep the more we can end up struggling with it.
It might be helpful to recognize that waking during the night is a normal part of sleep. How do you currently respond to those awakenings when they happen?
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Thank you for sharing your experience — there’s a lot of scary and confusing stuff about sleep out there!
Insomnia can definitely be difficult (no doubt about that!) and yet there’s no proof that it’s going to cause a health problem or that it increases mortality (one study that involved about 37 million people found no increase in mortality in people with chronic insomnia compared to people without chronic insomnia).
So much of the difficulty can come from our understandable efforts to make sleep happen or to get rid of insomnia. Those efforts can create a struggle that can consume a huge amount of our energy and attention.
It sounds as though you’ve been moving away from that struggle and are finding that, without the struggle, you are better able to live the kind of life you want to live. And, with less struggle, conditions for sleep become a lot better, too!
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Hello John and thanks for sharing!
It’s impossible to say whether depth of sleep gets better over time since that’s something we cannot control (and trying to control what cannot be controlled often creates a struggle that makes things more difficult).
What I can say is that, quite often, the less we struggle with sleep and the less we try to control our thoughts and feelings, the more energy we can “free up” to do the things that matter to us 🙂
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Hello and welcome to the forum. If you think back a few months to before you were experiencing sleep disruption, how did you approach sleep then and how did you respond to any occasional difficult nights that happened?
Is there any difference to your approach and response now, compared to the past? Perhaps there might be some insights there?
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Hello Nik!
It’s great to hear that you are trying to go about your days as best as you can! It’s also great to hear that when it gets dark you are practicing acknowledging all the thoughts and feelings that your brain is generating as it does its job of looking out for you — and that you are practicing allowing those thoughts and feelings to come and go as they choose, rather than donning a suit of armor and going to war with them.
It sounds as though once you get into bed, that all goes out the window somewhat and you seem to fall back into the struggle again. And, that’s understandable since being in bed can be associated with so much struggle — it can almost feel like a bit of a habit.
Have you tried responding to the anxiety you described when you get into bed in a similar way to how you respond before you get into bed? Do you think the AWAKE exercise might help with that? If checking the time once you are in bed doesn’t seem to be helpful, perhaps that’s an action that you might want to move away from, too?
If you don’t usually get close to nine hours of sleep at night, perhaps allotting nine hours for sleep (going to bed at 10:00 PM and getting out of bed at 7:00 AM) might be setting you up for a bit of a struggle. You might want to revisit the Week 1 content about creating a sleep window, if you think a change there might be helpful.
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Ups and downs are totally normal, Vids! Just as we all have difficult days from time to time, we all have difficult nights from time to time as well!
Since we cannot control how we sleep and since we cannot directly or permanently control what we think or how we feel, perhaps the best way to manage this is to continue to focus attention on what we can control — how we respond to this difficult stuff.
Do we fall back into the old struggle and get pulled away from doing things that matter to us? Or, do we acknowledge what’s happening, acknowledge what we are thinking and feeling, be kind to ourselves, and continue to do things that keep us moving toward the life we want to live — even when things are difficult?
Do we choose to continue to practice a more workable way forward, or do we choose to fall back into the struggle?
Also important to consider is that even if we notice we’ve fallen back into the old struggle, it’s never too late to change direction!
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Sounds like a plan, Bruce!
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That’s not unusual at all — whenever we explore (or make) changes, that problem solving mind is going to be more active as it does its job of looking out for us!
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That’s correct — new material is released each week so there’s a minimum amount of time for some practice, before moving on!
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Do you think experimenting with the AWAKE exercise might help you build some skill in experiencing wakefulness and all the difficult thoughts and feelings that can come with it with less struggle?
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
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Great stuff — that new response you described definitely sounds more workable!
—If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Mastery program.
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