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Originally Posted by demonrail666
This is crap. It's 4am and I've tried everything: cocoa, watching a film, reading through the 'world music' thread and nothing seems to work. I've been like this for years now and it's a real pain. I usually don't get to sleep until around 6 or 7 in the morning and even then don't get more than about three or four hours actual sleep. It's OK while I'm not working but I start teaching again on Friday and desperately need to regulate my sleep pattern Anyone else suffer from this? Or, better still, anyone who used to suffer from it but found a way of sorting it out - without going on to sleeping tablets or reading Beowolf.
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Last night was my first in a while.. Im not sure I even fell asleep before 5 am and its now 9 26.. I've just pulled myself out of bed after laying spread out across the bed widthways for the last hour after I woke from my wonderful 2 hrs sleep.
In the past a lot of mine was coupled with other mental issues.. You dont seem to have mentioned any of those.
You did mention you're in an arts related field.. drawings and concepts and imagery swarm my head if I lay there unable to sleep for more than an hour.. In the end I need to get up and write things down. That might help depending on what is happening in your head while you're unable to sleep.. I know sometimes I dont even seem to have 'thoughts'. Its just an inability to stop 'processing' kind of feeling.
If it happens for more than a day or two, I take valerian and make the effort to avoid electrical stimuli for the last 3 hours I plan on being awake. In the past my psychiatrist used to prescribe temazepam for a week or two to get my pattern back but, I never felt like I had actually been asleep after waking up.
Herbal remedies and prep for bed are the best imho. For once I agree with !@#$%!