insomnia?
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- Nairn0
Yup. I'm a 'fretter'. My sleeping 'pattern' is all over the shop and I'm afraid I have no useful, healthy suggestions for you.
My entire life, I've not been able to just 'stop thinking'. When I was a kid, I'd lay awake at night, thinking. Same when I was at school, at uni, at a 9-5, when I had a company that was doing well, when I thought I was about to get arrested, when I thought London was going to get fucked-on (2005 - not a great period in my life), when I had a year off and didn't have to worry about ANYTHING, and now, when I have no cause to.
My mind just turns over and over and over. I can't distract it because then the distraction consumes me - work, books, internet, films, games, whatever - I'll just keep at it 'til the sun comes up.
I try and avoid caffeine after 6pm.
I start smoking weed after 6pm.
I have backup sleeping pills/sedatives for knocking myself out should I need to guarantee a certain amount of sleep.
I know that alcohol seriously affects my sleep (it'll knock me out for 4 hours or so - but then I'll wake up, feeling awful, unable to get back to sleep = part of the reason I don't drink much any more)I'm 'lucky' in that I now work from home, and/or have always worked in an environment where specific hours didn't matter too much.
So yeah - I feel your pain.
- poor nairn! it sounds like my problem but more severe. i had serious insomnia in my 20s and it's been replaced by this now.sputnik2