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Thank you for sharing your story, Lillian! It was a pleasure to work with you and I appreciate you sharing that you now feel confident that you have the tools to deal with any sleep disruption that might occur in the future!
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Thanks for sharing, Billy! You got results because you implemented what you learned — and that’s always the hardest part!
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Hello Elle! Those ups and downs are often associated with allotting too much time for sleep/spending too much time in bed or an inconsistent sleep schedule. You might find this video helpful: How to stop the sleep roller coaster and make sleep more consistent and more predictable.
At the current time, when do you usually go to bed at night and when do you get out of bed to start your day in the morning?
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Thanks for sharing, Jennifer! It definitely sounds as though you have many opportunities to improve how you feel during the day — perhaps pursuing those will help you feel better during the day and you might, in turn, put a bit less pressure on yourself to sleep?
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Sounds like you have a clear plan in place! Thanks for sharing that you are finding the techniques you are implementing are helping to turn the anxiety down a few notches! Remember that it’s OK to worry — all human beings do 🙂
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Congratulations on getting off the sleep meds, Jennifer!
Quite often, how we feel during the day is influenced far more by what we do during the day (and what happens to us during the day) than how we have slept.
It’s good to hear that you are still going to work every day — other than that, are you doing anything else during the week? Things that are important to you, things that help enrich your life, bring you some joy, and help you live your life according to your values?
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Unfortunately, I cannot offer any advice on the IBS, but if you wake and find it hard to fall back to sleep when IBS isn’t an issue, you might find it helpful to explore whether you are allotting an appropriate amount of time for sleep (many of us spend too much time in bed in an attempt to generate more sleep but the end result is usually just more time awake).
I hope this helps!
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Nothing in your post sounds unusual! I usually suggest increasing the amount of time you allot for sleep by around 15 minutes or so when you have been consistently sleeping through the vast majority of your sleep window for the previous week or two.
If my memory serves me correctly, every single client who stopped checking the clock at night told me they found that to be extremely helpful!
In terms of getting in and out of bed, you might find it helpful to stop tracking 30-minute periods of time and go by how you feel instead. If you are awake in bed but it feels good to be in bed, you might allow yourself to stay in bed because that means conditions are right for sleep! If being in bed doesn’t feel good, that might be your cue to get out of bed and to do anything that might help make that nighttime wakefulness a bit more pleasant, until conditions feel right for sleep.
Finally, here’s a video about those hypnic jerks.
I hope this helps!
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When we’ve been taking medication for a long period of time, we can expect to experience some sleep disruption as we adjust to life without medication. With this in mind, it can be helpful to combine this process with new sleep habits that help create better conditions for sleep. Of course, it’s important not to make any changes to your medication without talking to your doctor first!
—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.
The content of this post is provided for informational and educational purposes only. It is not medical advice and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, disorder, or medical condition. It should never replace any advice given to you by your physician or any other licensed healthcare provider. Insomnia Coach LLC offers coaching services only and does not provide therapy, counseling, medical advice, or medical treatment. All content is provided “as is” and without warranties, either express or implied.
A Brit moving to the US and developing insomnia? That sounds just like my story!
Sleeping every other night is often a symptom of allotting too much time for sleep — a common behavior when we are striving for more sleep. With this in mind, you might find it helpful to explore whether the amount of time you allot for sleep is appropriate for the amount of sleep you averaged over the past week or two.
I hope this helps!
—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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Welcome to the forum! My philosophy when it comes to implementing evidence-based techniques while also taking medication is this — the techniques will almost certainly be helpful, regardless of whether you are taking medication or not!
That’s because these techniques help to address the root cause and perpetuating factors behind chronic insomnia — our thoughts and behaviors!
When I work with clients, some decide to quit medication right from the start, others taper or quit when they feel ready to do so. I don’t think it matters either way (since no medication generates sleep) — but it is, of course, important to discuss any potential changes to medication with your doctor first!
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Welcome to the forum! Your introduction post doesn’t sound unusual in any way whatsoever — it sounds like insomnia, which is virtually identical from person to person! Have you been diagnosed with chronic insomnia? As you suggested, tackling the thoughts and behaviors that perpetuate sleep disruption can be a helpful way to improve sleep for the long term.
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This is a great discussion!
Here’s the thing about anxiety — it comes from thoughts.
Anxiety can make us feel uncomfortable — but it cannot harm us.
Here’s the thing about thoughts — they are just thoughts.
Thoughts can make us feel uncomfortable — but they cannot harm us.
Often, it’s our attempts to avoid or suppress our thoughts or our anxieties that make them feel more powerful and more unpleasant (and this, of course, serves to make sleep more difficult, too).
Perhaps, instead of trying to avoid or suppress our thoughts it might be more helpful to acknowledge and accept them? To recognize them as thoughts, perhaps to even name those thoughts (“Oh, there’s that “I’ll never sleep again” thought — welcome back, old friend!”), to allow space for them, and to allow them to stick around for as long as they like, might help transform the relationship we have with our thoughts and the effect they might have on us.
I hope this is helpful!
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My answer to this one would be yes — because the body will always generate, at the very least, the bare minimum amount of sleep we need. With that in mind, we can survive indefinitely with whatever sleep the body generates.
Often it’s our (quite understandable!) desire to get more sleep that makes it harder for the body to generate more than the bare minimum of sleep because our desire creates worse conditions for sleep by doing things like weakening our sleep drive, disrupting our body clock, and strengthening the arousal system.
I hope this helps!
—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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Hello Jerry!
Sleep is never impossible because sleep always happens in the end — it’s just that the sleep we get might not feel as good as we want it to feel or last for as long as we want it to last.
Unfortunately, nobody here (myself included) is qualified to offer you advice on the symptoms you described. Have you described the sudden onset of dry mouth with your doctor?
—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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