stefmar254

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    stefmar254
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    I  was in your situation a year and a half ago, only that for me pills worked just the first 2 days and then became useless.

    Now, except for the occasional physical problems brought by sleep deprivation for a long period, I sleep rather decent.

    At the beginning I made the situation worse by trying to force myself to sleep, but it’s just not working like this. I could go for days without sleeping. My situation improved the moment I stopped TRYING to sleep. I konow this sounds impossible, but it did help many people. My main mistake was that I would fix a target hour to sleep and get anxious when I wasn’t able to, while having to go to my job in the morning.

    I was lucky I could quit my job without financial problems. Then after another half a year of pure misery I was so low that I just stopped caring how bad I feel. I had no expectations of sleep and I tried to think about something pleasent while in bed. I would think about soccer and sports and I would imagine myself in a forest (I love nature).  In less than a week I noticed that if I didn’t think about sleep I was able to sleep 1-2 hours in the beginning and then more.

    My advice to you is try thinking about something you love, even if it keeps you excited and feels like sleep will never come. Eventually you will fall asleep without knowing.

     

     

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