Yeah I’m not suggesting it’s anything more than very minor and temporary, but the energy and not yawning was a clue. Talk to someone, a friend or a therapist, or a good doctor. A Xanax or similar might be worth a shot. Not as a long term option but might help here. Best of luck. It’ll pass soon.
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I find sleep a bit weird so I battle with thoughts around it. But 90% of the time I sleep fine.
This has thrown me though because it’s very rare that I’d go the whole night awake. I am out of sync mood wise, I can sense that, and I am sure there is just an adjustment going on.
The thing is getting in the right frame of mind when I go to bed later. Ultimately no matter what frame of mind you’re in, if your body isn’t playing ball then that’s it. I’m telling myself that my usual way of preparing for bed is perfectly fine and that the baby doesn’t need to be thrown out with the bathwater.
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Listen to this in bed mate. You’re right, getting the mind to relax is about getting the body to relax
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When i was in the middle of my last (hopefully) divorce i went nights without shutting an eye. I was in the middle of a building project, had a mountain of paperwork for the grants people, the wee lad got badly hurt due to a useless babysitter, a bastard of an architect was threatening court action because I’d replaced him, and i hadn’t a bean to my name. I was trying to hold onto the kids, start a business and run the farm for the oul lad…who took note of my distress and kindly asked what was the matter. I manically listed all of the above and might have mentioned the headaches and chest pains. He studied over my predicament for a couple of seconds before telling me that he himself didn’t actually sleep well the previous night, but that he’d eventually nodded off by composing a list of jobs he wanted me do around the farm. He’d written them down and everything.
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Are you much of a reader? I know everyone is different but i find making time for 20 mins of reading (fiction) before turning off the lamp, the business. I’d a brief period of not being able to sleep all night about 7 or 8 years ago. Simple thing like getting stuck into a good book (plus avoiding phone after 10pm) definitely helped.
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You got married 7/8 years ago?
She came with an instruction manual, fnar fnar
I do have a book beside the bed, Damien Lawlor’s one on the Waterford footballers. Nice and light.
As I said, the vast majority of the time I have no problem sleeping but I have hit a bit of a rut at the moment. From further consideration I think there may be some sort of an adjusting process going on as I have cut way back on drink over the last while and insomnia can actually be a side effect of that.
It aint pretty though.
Have you something on your conscience, Farmer?
No mate. Thanks for asking.
I place a lot of value on my sleep and if it doesn’t happen then I get anxious. The lack of control over it is difficult but I need to just accept that.
That made me lol
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If it’s any consolation, you can have a relatively normal life sleeping fuck all for years on end mate. Trust me, I know.
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To put you to sleep?
I’m after drafting a tricky report there for the morning and sent it off so I am not that bad I suppose.
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It sounds like a vicious cycle whereby the need to sleep grows and so the pressure grows and makes it worse. Have had something similar. Go to the GP. They’ll likely prescribe a small amount of weak Xanax or valium. Most likely after taking one the first night a half would do you the next and you’ll get back into a normal cycle soon enough. Put away Amy left over and have them in case the need arises again.
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That’s it exactly.
I’ll see how things go tonight and over the weekend.
Fells often panic about sleep and worry about it too much. You can survive with a lot less sleep if push comes to shove.
Don’t suffer on too much more, there is a fix. I wouldn’t worry at all about using a light prescription for a brief period to reset.
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I’m no expert but whenever I struggle with sleep I found a good vigorous workout about 2 hours before I go to bed and a shower as hot as you can take it about 30 minutes before bed works for me… clean bedsheets too. Basically everything as clean, neat and organised as it can be. That’s just for me so I’m not giving advice or anything because I’m not an expert on it.
Some people need more and some less. A good friend of mine is probably the smartest and most productive person I know and five hours would be the max she needs. I’d be a zombie.