How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[jaccat]

Still not good. Woke again in the early hours. Tried to focus on positive thoughts and was instead bombarded with images of death:meh:

 

[Changing4Best]

For 3 nights in a row now I have woken up way before the enough sleep as needed mark. I was really tired yesterday as it was, now today I imagine that I will feel even more tired than yesterday and there is nothing I can do about it. I just could not go back to sleep. I am upset about this! I also wonder how much longer this is going to last. I am Bipolar as well as PTSD, so it could go on for days, even weeks. I am wondering if I should call my psychiatrist and ask for something to help me sleep better.

 

[rainy_daze]

I woke up a few times. It wasn't pleasant. I did however manage sleep, which is always preferable to insomnia.

 

[Lionheart]

The continuity of sleep was broken up into several intervals but I slept deeply and well.

 

[sweetness and light]

I slept a bit better last night. I've not had a very good week sleep/ symptoms wise. Lots of self care last night - bath, food, movies and talking to my husband. I'm feeling very anxious about sleep tonight, partially because I have to be up early tomorrow

 

[Changing4Best]

I've been in a manic for a few weeks now (I'm bipolar as well as PTSD). Well, I got maybe 5 hours of sleep last night. I just looked back at my whole life, at all the times this has happened to me, so many that I can't begin to count them. One problem that occurs with this as well is that I feel like I have to eat more. My body is running in high gear and it needs more fuel. I'm getting rather close to my day's allotment of calorie consumption already. I've gained a pound each day for 3 days now.

 

[Fadeaway]

Well it is 6:30 am. Haven't slept yet. It seems like lately when I do finally doze off, either the alarm goes off due to an apointment, or I get a know at the door, or the ice cream truck parks right tin front of my apartment window for an exceptionally long time blasting Turkey in the Straw.

I have pissed of the sleep gods.

 

[The Albatross]

Nightmares, fist clenched, woke up numb to the elbows. I hate it when that happens. Keep sounding like a broken record lately... "Will I ever stop having nightmares"... mister says yes, but I am not so sure as he is.

 

[scout86]

OK, for the couple of hours I actually slept. It was the "I'm NEVER going to get to sleep and there's stuff I need to do tomorrow/ If I don't quite thinking about this I'll NEVER get to sleep!" part that was a problem.

And I just realized I probably should have consulted the "cognitive distortion" thread and listened to the imaginary voice of my T saying, "You MIGHT want to find a better way to think about that....." :banghead::banghead::banghead: :bag:

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Bad dreams all week very complicated ones that I barely remember but the themes have changed. It bothers me so much. I would like to have dreamless sleep. I guess the dreams have changed as a result of all of the many changes I have made in my life for the past four and a half months.

 

[jaccat]

Not enough sleep the last week. Wide awake for hours, then a few hours of light sleep if I'm lucky, nightmares if I'm not.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

Finally tunred the light out at 2.10am, very ntermittent sleep of waking every few minutes until about 7am, then the exhaustion overcame me and I slept until 9am.

And that was the best night I've had in almost 3 weeks now.