Posted by rachel on June 27, 2008 at 09:34:42:

i've had insomnia for several years- started after a couple nights of bad sleep and it's only gotten progressively worse. it has always been extremely upsetting and scary for me. just in the last half year have i started to realize that the only way to get over this is to change the way i think and feel about sleep... i was always a great sleeper until this happened and my sleep troubles seem to be very psychological (can't sleep most on the nights i know i need to sleep, etc). i worry about it all the time and it's become a huge force in my life. i'm working on changing that. i'm trying to force myself to live my life even when i'm exhausted, and i'm trying to calm down about bad sleep in the meantime. i've been at this for a few months now, and nothing's really getting much better. it still takes hours for me to get to sleep almost every night. i'm so frustrated and scared that this is something i'm not going to be able to get over. i didnt expect it to get better overnight, but i'm not even seeing progress. does anyone have any advice or perspective? last night was a really bad night- took half an ambien at 5am when i still hadn't been able to get to sleep. only got a few hours. home from work today bc i just couldn't do it.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Could really use some encouragement sleepless scientist 14:08 6/27/08 (2)
  • Re: Could really use some encouragement rachel 10:58 6/28/08 (1)
    • Re: Could really use some encouragement notsleepingagain 06:10 7/02/08 (0)

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