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i don't have great difficulty falling asleep but early morning i wake up and can't fall asleep for hours. sometimes 2 hours, sometimes 4 hours. i then sleep most of the morning away and get moving in the early afternoon. i know some of that is staying up the previous night, but i dont like to lay awake in the dark.. i try to go back to sleep, but my mind starts wondering. i think about how he doesnt love me. how he cheated. how he lied. her. lonley. angry. hurt. i don't cry so much anymore but sometimes. so i turn on the tv to distract. i stay wide awake for prob up to 4 hrs and then finally drift off as the sun comes up. usually still with the tv on the distract.
I hope the same happens to you soon. If not, then I would speak to a doctor about it. We can't function when sleep deprieved. This entire situation is difficult enough without adding in lack of sleep.
Good luck to you.
If I did wake and had a bad time getting those awful thoughts out of my head, it was useful for me to give myself a certain amount of time to think about them, intensely, and then to move on and force myself to think of something else. I'd tell myself "ten minutes for worrying/stressing/grieving/anger/whatever" and then I would make myself do a sort of "guided imagery" type exercise to get my brain going elsewhere. For me, it worked to imagine a storyline in my head, for example to imagine myself going on a vacation to a favorite place and walking along with my dog and doing various things. Nothing complex, just pictures and thoughts that I could turn into a bit of a story. Different people use different stories or imaginary scenarios; use what works.
Might be worth a try. And if you continue to have this problem for a prolonged time, consider the possibility of depression. Depression causes this a lot. Oh, and you didn't say if you drink or not, but alcohol will really aggravate early morning awakening, so definitely avoid that.