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...

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How to get better quality sleep?

frankmills
frankmills
A good night sleep is very important for our health... I am struggling for sleep for few days. Its causing due to my irregular sleeping schedule and stress...
It also sometime triggers my depression and anxiety problems, but thankfully taking sleeping pills helped me. I have started breath exercise to manage my stress, I felt quite relaxed.
I am taking Ambien and it helps me stay asleep for long time. What other better ways you find to get back to normal sleep schedule?
sonnycamehome
sonnycamehome
I find it helpful to go to bed at the same time every night, but I have also found it helpful to use a white noise app on my phone called "White Noise" There are a lot of different sounds...personally I like 'Brown Noise' and when used with ear buds, the sound blocks out all other outside noise. I have been using the app for a long time now and I think it has become a trigger for sleep because as soon as I put the ear buds in and turn the sound on I become sleepy in seconds...I don't think it takes me longer than 5 minutes to fall asleep anymore. I suggest trying it for a few days and see if it helps...it's free!
grosanjani11
grosanjani11
You can not sleep?

I think you can not look at this a long time.
I think you're going to sleep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1g9R2i6C0
Hypnos07
Hypnos07
The lasting solution is to address the true underlying reasons why you can't sleep, including stress, anxiety, and depression. Are you getting counseling for these?

Also, setting and keeping a consistent sleep-wake schedule, and especially a consistent wake time, are keys. This takes discipline, but it is essential.

You can also learn ways to let go of the stress and negativity you associate with the idea of sleep, and that tends to reduce insomnia.