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Mac. You and I sound similar based on what I’ve read here. Personally I have had 3 bouts of insomnia in 8 months. Each lasting progressively longer. Each time I recovered using ACT, and spending more time in bed. And I recovered to 8 hours of sleep, just to suddenly lose it after one single bad night. And then all my ACT work starts to fall apart as things get progressively worse. For some reason it’s not allowing me to stay on top of things and recover from slip ups. I have made a ton of headway with ACT which is why im unsure if I should continue with it once again this time, or just try SRT this time. How much did you limit your sleep window to? Did you get into that 15 minutes adding and subtracting etc.. or just kind of ballpark things ?
Did Anyone find SRT makes there problem worse? I was spending 8.5 hours in bed and doing ACT. Sleeping around 5 hours. I’m now doing a 6 hour SRT window and I get so nervous going to bed this much later that I’m sleeping only 3 hours now! I’m sweating profusely as well.
Hey guys I’ve been following this post extremely closely. Many of you are very very similar to me. I’ve been practicing ACT and also a bit of SRT to keep my sleep drive up. ACT alone right now doesn’t cut it though as I’ve relapsed so, so bad. My question is, did you guys stay in bed with your spouses? Or switch to the spare room? I know the sleep book says stay with your spouse. But My wife tosses and turns a lot. Steals blankets etc. i used to be an amazing sleeper and even back then she would wake me up. But, I always could ultimately let it go and fall back asleep. Now, when I’m practicing slight SRT, and I go to bed exhausted, she will roll over and wake me right as I’m drifting off. This happened 3 times last night! All the ACT in the world couldn’t pull me out of the tailspin thinking I’d be asleep if “it weren’t for her.” But if I go to the spare room, I will eventually need to come back to bed sharing. We are young, and separate beds isn’t always possible. Especially on vacations etc. I really don’t want to be in separate beds forever. But I’m so fragile right now in my confidence. Being woken by her is really is tough. What would you guys recommend?
