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Hello! I also suffer from insomnia. It’s been almost a year now. At first I did not worry, I only took prescription medication and sleep every night. For almost a month, my sleep has become more severe, and I only sleep for 2 hours a night. The sleepless nights make it hard to focus on other things in life that normally make me happy, I spend a lot of time preparing for sleep and worrying if I’m asleep, I’m even afraid the evening came. But then one day I told myself to give up this thought, which is not easy and even though I still think about insomnia. I did not think about it as much as before, I was not worried when it came to bed and when I went to sleep. What I did was: I write (something I like), go out more often and write diaries every night. I realized that just as long as I had a good night’s sleep, I would not worry the next day and would not worry that I would sleep better the next day. I have not really regained normal sleep yet, but I think I am doing well and limiting too much anxiety to sleep.
Dear Stacy I have had many sleep problems during the past year. I use Zolpidem as prescribed by a doctor.
Initially, the drug helped me sleep, but in the last two weeks, when I started to reduce the dose, I often wake up at 3 o’clock and can not sleep. At first I was frightened and lost my temper, as a result I could not sleep again, not only did I feel the drug started to lose its effect. But after knowing the Martin blog and follow the CBT for insomania, now i feel better. You can learn more about this treatment in his free sleep training course.
Also when I wake up I usually do not turn on the lights, try to keep quiet and listen to some music from the old ipod without the light screen. Hope you get better soon
