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...
I will say that I am disappointed with me following a real world sleep schedule(early morning waking up) because I could get so much more done if I did. However, I have been sleeping considerably better than I have been. But some reason my energy level has been really down lately. I know it is fall and it's getting dark really early and doesn't get light till relatively late in the morning, and that my room gets no light because it's in the basement but I'm not sure if this is to blame for my lack of energy or what's causing it.
I've been needing considerably more sleep than usual and don't even have as much energy as normal. Without using an alarm, I typically sleep over 10 hours before I wake up. I did sleep poorly this past friday night and woke up at 5:00 A.M to go fishing and did have a sugar free slurpee whic seemed to help me wake up really wel.. I'm not looking forward to going back to normal sleep people hours because I know I'm going to have to suffer and make sacrifices that I don't want to in order to get a job and do everything I want or need to in the day.
But what I really wanted to ask you guys is why you think my energy level has been down and if there's anything I can do about it, and what you guys do to wake up in the morning?
I've been needing considerably more sleep than usual and don't even have as much energy as normal. Without using an alarm, I typically sleep over 10 hours before I wake up. I did sleep poorly this past friday night and woke up at 5:00 A.M to go fishing and did have a sugar free slurpee whic seemed to help me wake up really wel.. I'm not looking forward to going back to normal sleep people hours because I know I'm going to have to suffer and make sacrifices that I don't want to in order to get a job and do everything I want or need to in the day.
But what I really wanted to ask you guys is why you think my energy level has been down and if there's anything I can do about it, and what you guys do to wake up in the morning?
I think I have a fast metabolism plus I exercise a lot; like yesterday for example I played pick up basketball for like 3 hours. I actually have a history of getting migraines if I don't eat something every 2 hours. Overall I have been wanting to gain weight just for personal reasons but also because I think my body feels like it needs more food. I am going to try taking vitamins, especially vitamin D to see if that at least sparks my energy. I don't drink caffeine which is one of the major frustrations of my low energy. I don't know if everyone I know just isn't tired like me in the mornings through early afternoon or if it is because they do drink caffeine.
About working out in the morning, I'm going to have to try doing that because soon I'm getting a new job plus going to school, having homework, being in a leadership society, etc. It's going to be so hard cause I can tell you I HATE mornings, I can't believe I survived my job this summer, and I will be probably go sleepless or get hardly any because my schedule is so far off of that now. It's going to be very hard.