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How Did You Sleep Last Night?

I'm struggling to get to sleep, then up at 4am.

My muscles ache where I've been laying tensed up, so I wake up with aches and pains all over. Then I lie there in the dark with bad thoughts rising into my head, trying to keep down the panic.

So I get up and come here, and the world looks normal again. But i so want to sleep.
 
We had a storm blow through yesterday evening with lots of alarming sounds (which I realized this morning were pinecones falling from trees and hitting the roof!). So I was afraid to go to bed and (major error #1) didn't take my Trazodone. I would nod off for a bit and then wake up after a half hour or so and continued (major errors #2-5) to not take my Trazodone. I ended up actually sleeping 7:30-10am and now I have a brutal headache from clenching my jaw and I'm crying nonstop. Lack of sleep is wretched for my mental health.
 
I took my meds and did, eventually, sleep for about 7 hours straight (yay)! It's a holiday here so I turned my alarm off and slept an extra two hours. It will be hard to get up tomorrow but I figure after not really sleeping Saturday night, I probably needed the rest for mental stability.
 

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