I still have nights where I can't sleep. this past year those nights are usually "dark night of the soul" type nights-where it is emotional suffering. I'm "good" during the day and then in the night it is quiet and I can't keep my mind occupied so it goes to morbid thinking & suffering from losses, and life has no meaning and just ugly feelings.
For my entire life I did not sleep well at all. My grown children still make jokes about my sleep patterns and how the slightest sound at night made me alert and vigilant and according to my children "crazy." Most nights when I did finally pass out I would wake up in a completely different room, or on the floor far from my bed. The slightest noise I would scream out loud. I often would awaken and swear there was a man "lurking" in my bedroom. My dreams would often terrify me. I never connected my childhood, the murder attempts, and ALLLLLL the other shit to my sleep problems.
Two years ago as I worked on CPT for 12 sessions with the childhood knife attacks murder attempts--and I was amazed how I could start to sleep naturally. So that's a cool positive outcome of my CPT therapy.
I really just wanted to post here also that I started using essential oils of all different kinds this year. I can say with certainty It is not a placebo effect. It is helping me sleep more soundly and my husband too. There may be a forum post about diffusing oils to help sleep, but I'm truly amazed at how well I sleep and don't wake up when I've diffused oils before bedtime.
For my entire life I did not sleep well at all. My grown children still make jokes about my sleep patterns and how the slightest sound at night made me alert and vigilant and according to my children "crazy." Most nights when I did finally pass out I would wake up in a completely different room, or on the floor far from my bed. The slightest noise I would scream out loud. I often would awaken and swear there was a man "lurking" in my bedroom. My dreams would often terrify me. I never connected my childhood, the murder attempts, and ALLLLLL the other shit to my sleep problems.
Two years ago as I worked on CPT for 12 sessions with the childhood knife attacks murder attempts--and I was amazed how I could start to sleep naturally. So that's a cool positive outcome of my CPT therapy.
I really just wanted to post here also that I started using essential oils of all different kinds this year. I can say with certainty It is not a placebo effect. It is helping me sleep more soundly and my husband too. There may be a forum post about diffusing oils to help sleep, but I'm truly amazed at how well I sleep and don't wake up when I've diffused oils before bedtime.