Reply To: Getting to sleep

[sar316]

Ok so I’m a little late to this party, but i found that complete mental exhaustion works really well. I found listing to a movie I have listened to a million times (Shrek) gives me something to pull my focus to and it doesn’t keep me awake because there are no surprises any more so I can just follow along word for word in my head until i drift off (usually not much longer than through the first half of the movie). But above all a diagnosis and meds have made the biggest difference. If i take my meds early in the day and put an honest effort to focus my energy to the proper parts of my day, I have found that for the first time in my life I sleep at night. And not just fall as sleep, stay a sleep and not wake up about every hour and a half. I find that my partners breathing, the draft of cool air into my blankets, light of any sort, the dog rolling over, my partners blanket touching me (HA! ya we did NOT share blankets, like there is any chance at all we could SHARE blankets without me going to prison), a slight change in the earths rotation or atmospheric pressure doesn’t bother me any longer. I know mostly just love my partner and no longer want to strangle him on a regular basis because for the first time i have energy and patients to deal with life. I can’t stress how much of a difference I’ve experience by getting my ‘energy cycles’ figured out so my brain works during the day and doesn’t want to solve the mysteries of the universe at night. I still have the occasional bad night, but for the most part they are restful nights.

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