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...
well, its been more than a month of being able to sleep through the night so I guess I beat insomnia. I just wanted to offer some hope to those who are still suffering from this debilitating affliction because I know when I was hurting i spent nights just searching the internet for stories of those that have overcome insomnia
link to my original post here when I had insomnia
http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Insomnia/forum/11331136-new-here-my-story
now I'm back to sleeping 6-8 hours a day. I just feel totally different now, mind and body. I no longer wake up feeling hopeless and the migraines are gone.
what I did was that I stop caring about my sleep. I didn't take any drugs or follow any sleep hygiene guidelines. I just don't believe sleeping pills are cures even if they put you to sleep each night. Having to take drugs each night to sleep is not a cure to me. So I just continued on with my life. I stayed busy. soon after a few weeks i noticed that I would get drowsy and my sleep time increased.
link to my original post here when I had insomnia
http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Insomnia/forum/11331136-new-here-my-story
now I'm back to sleeping 6-8 hours a day. I just feel totally different now, mind and body. I no longer wake up feeling hopeless and the migraines are gone.
what I did was that I stop caring about my sleep. I didn't take any drugs or follow any sleep hygiene guidelines. I just don't believe sleeping pills are cures even if they put you to sleep each night. Having to take drugs each night to sleep is not a cure to me. So I just continued on with my life. I stayed busy. soon after a few weeks i noticed that I would get drowsy and my sleep time increased.
If you do have a reacuurance use the same postive attitiude and I bet it doesnt last long. well done ! xx
Do you want to know why? Well, when you worry too much, you burn too much energy and you also go in to this mode of alert. It's often refereed to as an over stimulated sympathetic nervous system.
Calming down also signals your brain to tell your sympathetic nervous system that.... "It's alright, you're not in danger", "You can sleep", "You can relax".