My therapist explained to me in our last session - why I regularly wake up at about 3am. She explained it's due to the brain processing all the stress, anxiety, memories, flashbacks etc and the brain senses danger, so wakes me up. Often these memories turn into nightmares, so again the brain wakes me up.
She also said that due to not getting a good 8 hours sleep, my brain hasn't processed it all and hasn't emptied my 'cup' - she likes the PTSD Cup Theory :tup: So, that's why often I wake up feeling stressed and don't understand why.
So, it would seem that I am not going to get 8 hours sleep a night and that's that, while my brain is processing everything as danger.
It is good to actually understand it a bit more and to hear it in simple terms, rather than just think, yeah I have insomnia and it sucks.
She also said that due to not getting a good 8 hours sleep, my brain hasn't processed it all and hasn't emptied my 'cup' - she likes the PTSD Cup Theory :tup: So, that's why often I wake up feeling stressed and don't understand why.
So, it would seem that I am not going to get 8 hours sleep a night and that's that, while my brain is processing everything as danger.
It is good to actually understand it a bit more and to hear it in simple terms, rather than just think, yeah I have insomnia and it sucks.