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...
Is one of the main causes of insomnia fear? So I try to just get up and go to work and do everything I would normally do. But it is hard when this crap comes back. How do you guys cope? Just try and relax as best as possible, get up the next day?
You cope in a number of ways. One of the best is to see your doc to either treat or rule out an underlying medical basis. If none, which is most common, then you can look at the nonmedical basis, which typically is some combination of bad sleep habits and excessive worry about the idea of sleep.
The gold standard for treating the nonmedical sources are CBT sleep training programs. You can ask your doc about that, or if you're the self-help type you'll find much good info online.
It was important for me to get help for anxiety and depression and then practice those CBT techniques that Hypnos mentioned. Having tangible techniques and coping skills gave me a bit of "sleep confidence" and I was able to let go of the fear and eventually just sleep.