Sleep! It Makes Me Angery!

[Friday]

Cough. Feel compelled to add... I posted the above ^^^ after just having woken up. Almost posted the night before. And it would have been joining in your rant with both feet, all tired and pissed off. ;) S'alot easier to be philosophical when I'm not taking it on the chin.

 

[Sludge]

Drives my wife crazy that I can stay awake 22 out of 24 hours a day and eat 5000 calories of gheedunk every six hours and show little if any effects, particularly on the weekends. When questioned I always give the same reply: "Sleep is for the week." (Pun intended!)

Truly if sleep is an issue, take a random college class, like intermediate college algebra, or statistics, or Organic chemistry. Your ass will be damn there comatose halfway through the first assignment. Shit, not sleeping is one of the reasons I am getting all these crazy assed science degrees. Yeah, I find the shit interesting, but talk about an exhausting challenge...this shit makes the US Navy's AECF class A school seem like a trip to the dog park!

 

[JarHed]

I would just add, my own opinion here, which is if you have a problem, find a way to solve it. In this case a way to get better sleep. I think all the ideas above are great as things to do when you can't sleep. But in many ways they avoid the problem, which is getting better sleep. I'm just saying, find what works for you.

CBT-for Insomnia therapy worked for me. My T told me I had the worse case of insomnia that she'd seen ever. I know her well enough to know she wasn't bullshitting me. The wasn't her style. That helped me. Not on a soap box or campaign here but my point is the same. There are truly things that help, find them, work the program and don't avoid what you need to do.

I do have an occasional night when I can't sleep but it so few and far between that it doesn't even count to me. And a occasional nightmare but not the severity or duration like I used to. I hope ya'll that are looking for something to help will at least look at this and give it a shot. I didn't think it would work but it did. Sometimes we just have fear of fear; we avoid anything that may make up uncomfortable. Move past that and there's a better nights sleep out for ya. and of course, best of luck.

Jar