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Hello, thank you so much!
So I tried cbt for a full year with a cbt therapist ( but not a sleep cbt therapist) we did a lot of charts that were thoughts/beliefs/actions/ behaviours ( I think!) So for example if I was going to bed thinking I wouldn’t sleep I would try and challenge that, or change my behaviour- like experimenting with bed times, then experimenting with getting out of bed if I couldn’t sleep for an hour, then 30 minutes, then trying different activities like ironing, or reading, then trying reading boring things like manuals, we tried different temperatures,then different temperature switches ( hot to cold) we also tried setting it up so I would sleep from like 2am to 7am or 1am to 6am thinking I would be desperate for sleep,then we tried changing my fears around not sleeping, eg I would be ok, I always am. Then we looked at beliefs of ‘trying’ to sleep and changing that to resting. We also looked at how I think of the bedroom, then I changed my bedroom around an my bedding etc…there might have been more things, every week I would write a journal and outcomes. I hope that makes sense…sorry for babbling.
Currently I’m up all night for some nights, or sometimes I sleep from about 6 to 9. It’s hard ( as everyone here knows I’m sure!)
Thank you SO much for your responses, I’ve tried cbt but I am definitely up to try anything again. I can really relate to the emergency room as a similar thing happened to me when I’d been awake for 3 days, I felt I was going to have a break down. Will get the book for sure and have a think about a therapist, I’m just 6 weeks out of a major operation which has made sleep worse than ever again but also wiped me out completely financially!!
