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Feeling optimistic that I will not lose my sleep drive like hunger, breathing, that not all nights are the the same, there will be good nights and bad nights and that life has to go on.. I will not stressed myself by trying to control sleep.. I learned that all from you Martin which helped me not to take any meds anymore cold turkey,I am still watching you tube to reinforce the skills I learned from the course and read self help books
I read somewhere that if we change the way we think we can change the way we feel. Thanks again.I am on my 1st week (6th day) and I am starting to change my attitude to sleep and so far it’s been good. I am sleeping a little better than before CBT I and hopeful that it will continue, I don’t fear that night and bed are my enemy anymore. Thank you Martin
I agree with this lady was saying, before because I was working the graveyard shift for over 35 years and I have to have 7-8 hrs of sleep in order to function well at work that I develop anxiety when ever I could not get those hours until I retired last year and 16 nights after my last shift of work I landed in the hospital with a stroke but all tests were negative- all scans so I ask the neurologists what will be my chance of having another episode of stroke( I receive TPA anyway) he said unlikely but I have to sleep better( I have sleep maintenance insomnia) and control my blood pressure so he prescribed the highest possible dose of a sleeping medicine but every time I take it it gives me do much anxiety and restlessness because I have the fear I will be dependent on sleeping pills and its effect on my brain that I will develop early dementia. I took only 3x and came back to him again and he change it to another sleeping pill but it does not work at all because I develop anxiety, once in a while I take clonazepam which help a little bit but the sleep is not restorative and I continue to search online and found CBT-I and it dies nit advocate pills at all and I decided to try it and was looking for psychologist who dies it but unfortunately I couldn’t find one in my area and someone suggested virtual but my knowledge about computers is very limited and finally I gather enough courage to ask my son to apply to this website because I like what I heard from Martin in you tube,so this will be my 2nd night, I woke up after 2 hrs of sleep but went back to sleep after maybe 5 minutes . I really agree that I allowed sleep to control me, it should be me who should control sleep although there will be some difficult nights ahead, there is no perfect nights but I am hopeful. Thank you Martin
