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Sleepless night

Toughassteele
Toughassteele

Its hard to sleep at night but I can sleep in till noon and take a nap later that day.  But I can't sleep at night it's 3am here and I'm wide awake took my sleeping pills but nothing. If tried my normal getting to sleep things but no help. I hate this 

silverlight
silverlight
You have all my empathy,steele....

i have been there,and actually am there now....

it is 6:08 AM here,and i have been awake since around 2 AM....

Wishing you peaceful rest.

Hugs.
invisablefriend
invisablefriend
If the sleeping pills don't work then don't take them.

I would stop taking naps.

Take walks morning and evening.

No NAP

Read when you can't sleep?

TV and Internet will keep you awake.

I can go to sleep but awake at 3:30am almost every night,
arfie
arfie
The daytime sleeping makes a huge diff in my personal sleep schedule. I'm a 24/7 person who enjoys seeing all 24 hours of the day and am able to adjust my sleeping hours according to which hours of the day or night i am enjoying on any given day. When I sleep or nap all day, I don't expect myself to be able solidly at night and versa vice. The math is pretty simple in that equation.

But that is me and there is also a huge diff between tweaking my sleep hours and insomnia. Insomnia sucks.

Continued support while you work your own sleep equation.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I teach morning classes with a sleep cycle that means I never, ever can get to sleep before 2am if I'm lucky. So I teach them, and then I take a nap at 3pm until dinner time or I would die.

For me there's no use fighting my sleep cycle with sleeping pills and all of that. Melatonin helps me get to sleep at 2am or 3am, at least. Then get up at 8am to be at school at 9am and teach, then crash after getting home at 3pm.

This may not work for you, but accepting my sleep cycle for what it is and not fighting what I can't change worked for me. If you do find a weapon for winning the fight let me know, because I'd definitely use it. In the meantime, working around it is how I getting along with it myself, just speaking for me. Hope to hear more from you on this because it's a big PTSD topic for me.
Toughassteele
Toughassteele
Thank you all. I have tried reading but my mind wonders. I can't focus a lot. I just woke up 20 minutes ago after going to bed at 320am. I'm still tired and I have things to do. I have to get this sleep thing down because I start back to my split shift work Tuesday. I work 6am to 830am then 230pm to 630pm. So I'm up early and home later and I have to drive an hour home. Just worried and trying to find a part time job in between. I need to keep my mind focus or I start stressing on other things like my kids my life me failing
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