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Any ideas why you started waking earlier? Waking within 40 minutes of your usual wake time is still quite consistent so this isn’t something I’d be too concerned with. Are you checking the clock when you wake? If so, you might find it helpful to stop doing that!
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Welcome to the forum. Some of us are a bit more predisposed to sleep disruption — but that doesn’t mean that one night of poor sleep has to lead to a long-term problem with sleep.
As long as we don’t react to short-term sleep disruption, we allow our sleep to recover by itself — and it will usually do so relatively quickly.
It’s usually only when we respond to a poor night of sleep and then do things in a bid to compensate for a bad night or to improve our sleep that sleep issues stick around for longer than they otherwise would.
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It sure sounds as though you’ve tried a lot of things, but I didn’t see any mention of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques — and this is the most effective treatment option for chronic insomnia.
Have you tried CBT-I, diecha?
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Unfortunately, it sounds as though you’ve tried a lot of things that have no evidence to support their effectiveness, Guguliney.
A new mattress won’t cure chronic insomnia. Nor will pills, injections, music, or a different diet.
What will almost certainly improve your sleep is the implementation of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques. Is this something you’ve tried?
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Glad to hear you’re doing better, Gabriella! Dropping that urge to try to control sleep and to put effort into sleep can be hard, but it really does help. As soon as we get out of the way of sleep, sleep becomes a lot easier! Continue to look forward and I’m sure your sleep will continue to improve!
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Thanks for posting the video, @delv-x! I think that, ultimately, when it comes to travel it can be helpful to simply expect sleep to be disrupted. Instead of worrying about “what ifs” try to focus your attention on all the fantastic things you’ll be doing during the day!
When your away, stick with this trend. Enjoy every day. Experience everything you can experience. I suspect you’ll be quite surprised by how well you end up sleeping when you’re away!
With enough wakefulness, we will always sleep — so remember that you CAN sleep!
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Those ups and downs are very common if you don’t have a consistent (and appropriate) sleep schedule. When do you typically go to bed at night, and when do you get out of bed in the morning? On an average night, how many hours of sleep would you say you get?
You might also find this video helpful: What to do when you go through an endless cycle of bad sleep followed by better sleep.
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Sorry to hear about your ongoing struggle with sleep. Some good news for you — Ann had insomnia for over 30 years and now sleeps well. So, there is hope for you!
Have you given cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) a try?
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Welcome to the forum, Pixor.
It’s our response to the initial sleep disruption that usually dictates how long it will take for our sleep to recover.
If you avoid the temptation to compensate for temporary sleep disruption by doing things like spending more time in bed, modifying your day, and trying all different kinds of sleep remedies, your sleep will almost certainly recover quite quickly all by itself.
How are you getting since you posted?
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Hello Dylan and welcome to the forum.
So, we have the precipitating factors that disrupted your sleep — caffeine pills and studying for exams. We also have the perpetuating factors — medication, alcohol, and sleep-related worry. These are the things I can identify from your post that are making it hard for you to get your sleep back on track.
The good news is that there isn’t anything particularly uncommon or unusual in your story. So, since virtually everyone who got their sleep back on track using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) has a similar story to yours, there is no reason to believe you can’t get your sleep back on track, too.
Have you heard of (or tried) CBT-I?
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Welcome to the forum, roel. When do you normally go to bed at night and when do you get out of bed to start your day in the morning? How many hours of sleep would you say you get on a typical night?
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Sorry to read about your struggles, @Elliesowner.
It sounds as though it might be time to look at a long-term solution for your insomnia so you can live with better sleep for the rest of your life, rather than repeatedly grasping at short-term solutions. Have you heard of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)?
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Hello Jnoeda and welcome to the forum. When do you typically go to bed at night, when do you get out of bed to start your day, and roughly how many hours of sleep would you say you get on an average night?
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Welcome to the forum, Sazzy. Like most people with insomnia, you have tried many things in an attempt to improve your sleep — but, unfortunately, we wouldn’t actually expect any of them to work.
Sleep aids, lavender, magnesium, yoga, warm baths, melatonin, antihistamines, and acupuncture are not effective treatments for chronic insomnia.
Have you looked into cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I)? CBT-I is the best treatment for chronic insomnia because it gets to the root cause of insomnia — the thoughts and behaviors we have and implement in a bid to improve our sleep that actually make sleep more difficult.
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Hello Jed. Welcome to the forum. You certainly are not alone.
Waking during the night is normal. Waking during the night and finding it very hard to fall back to sleep is less normal.
What typically helps is making sure you aren’t allotting too much time for sleep and getting out of bed when you wake and find it hard to fall back to sleep.
Allotting an appropriate amount of time for sleep will reduce the amount of time you spend awake during the night, and getting out of bed during the night when you are struggling to fall back to sleep will help prevent you from reinforcing the idea that the bed is a place for wakefulness rather than sleep.
Smoking, drinking, caffeine, medication, and exercise can all affect our sleep but they’re not usually the perpetuating factors behind insomnia. These factors are the thoughts and behaviors we have in response to our struggles with sleep — and cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques are so effective because they address these issues.
Have you tried CBT-I, Jed?
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