Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
Hello! I'm new here and wanted to see if anyone had some advice and if this could even be considered insomnia. It takes me at least an hour to fall asleep almost every night - sometimes longer when I'm feeling stressed. If I ever wake up in the middle of the night, which doesn't happen often, then I'm awake for over an hour and sometimes just can't go back to sleep at all. I just can't seem to shut my mind off, it just races (that's probably my anxiety at work!). I'm also almost always automatically wake up either at or before 8:30 the next morning regardless of what time I went to bed the night before. I've tried counting, slowing my breathing, working out during the day, and I rarely drink alcohol and never drink coffee and I've tried avoiding using screens right before bed. I'm always tired so it's not that I don't need rest. I can't figure out what's wrong with me. I've had this problem since around the start of high school and now I'm about to finish my second year of college. Is this really serious? And does anyone have some suggestions? I really appreciate it!
If you don't have one (likely) then look first to non-drug CBT-based sleep training methods to help you restore better sleep. These methods will help you turn off the racing mind syndrome, as well as better manage stress, which is often a culprit for many of us with insomnia.
Good luck!