Only been able to sleep 6 hours since I was in university when I was in my 20's, I'll be 52 on the 18th Nov 2024, I still sleep 6 hours or less and that's even with a sleeping tablet. So, I always had weird sleeping habits, I'm told us men sleep less and less the older we get
Older, sleep maybe 4 hours straight unless I dose myself with Melatonin. Or I'll skip the drug and take two naps that day. It's become downright normal.
Amazingly, I've barely slept for years on end now... a combination of things, including health, but mostly from Trump... I can barely sleep worrying about what could happen... now it's happened... I was hoping to get some sleep under Harris-Walz... Trump is a disease... a constant threat...
Honestly, have not slept well since the election.
Today, woke up at 3:00 am, unable to go back to sleep, worrying. This is typical now and I feel like a walking zombie.
I am like a cat...I move from the bed to couch 1 then after an hour or two - I move to another couch...And this is not in a JD Vance way - I sleep on the couch...
The CBN/CBD gummies have helped me on bad nights. The gummies that additionally have THC seem to work even better for me. The THC etc beverages work faster but then there’s the risk of needing to go to the bathroom at 3 anyway.
Yes. Every time I’m about to fall asleep, my brain goes into overdrive: Who will he pick? Who will they hurt? Can we be strong? Will we recover? Why did I have children?
Since Jan 6 2021 I have been on anti anxiety meds. I was so hoping not to need them any more…..but since the orange monster is back in, that won’t be happening..
I’ve had to return to the deep relaxation techniques I used in college; arranging myself comfortably and moving from one muscle group to the next, relaxing them in turn and searching for tension.
I do, I have a few theories. One is that I'm still recovering from a major surgery, the other is I don't watch the news anymore so I let myself nap whenever I feel the need and sometimes a nap at 4pm results in my waking at noon the next day.
Absolutely and totally messed up. I wake up around 4am - for a split second thinking that I'm in a different reality, then a sense of dread for my kids sets in before I calm myself down and back to Earth.
Same, Apple watch has been saying 90 minutes to under 3 hours every single night. Heart rate up, respiration rate up. Good times. This obese neon nazi is going to kill me. Along with millions of others apparently. 😱
I start out OK, & then my brain starts thinking about what an absolute shit show this election ended up being & then of course I think of all the worse case scenerios which is so stupid because it's all projection. What was the question??
Oh god, saaaaaaaaaame. I stupidly read a review of one of their books before going to bed and didn't sleep at all, then when I got up for good thought 'none of that is new information, why are you freaking out? Stop it, brain!'
Sleep...? WTF is sleep...?
If I'm lucky, I'll get 4 hours a night, split into two sessions. 10pm until midnight and then from 2 to 4 am.
If I'm exhausted from something, I can squeeze another hour in there somewhere.
Why...because I have a neurological disorder.
I hate Tylenol PM, I had to go buy some. Don't drink, I need to sleep and not feel like I was hit by a freight train in the morning. I refuse to be dependent on it. It's terrible for you.
They have a non addictive one, I forgot the name. If you get two good nights of sleep, it should reset you, If you don't you'll head towards a mental break. Sleep is important!
Don’t get me wrong he usually does. He hasn’t been sleeping well. He just wanted company before he left for the day, and show me the morning play of light on the snow and the dog’s antics. I’m thrilled he still wants to share stuff with me (40 yrs together).
But the bed was so warm!
Let’s see… Wednesday I went to bed around 0400. Slept till 1300. Thursday I finally fell asleep at 0530 and slept till 1300. Weird dreams that night. Last night I feel asleep about 0030 and I’ve been up since 0400. So… yeah.
Ever since 11/5
My sleep sucks
My thoughts suck
My eating sucks
I’m making a deliberate effort starting today to do better
I’m not the stupid asshole who voted for him
Why am I punishing myself?
Sorta. Read recently that sleep used to be biphasic with a "first sleep" a "watch" where we're all awake, talking, checking animals, whatever, then "second sleep" until dawn. It's not modern normal, but that's mine, and I'm rolling with it.
I've been on a biphasic schedule now for several years. I'd get so frustrated by waking every single day between 1:30-3 and couldn't go back to sleep. Now I embrace it and use that time. I'm lucky that I work for myself and can set a schedule allowing for an after-lunch nap.
I’m embracing it by purging my social media accounts of people that don’t care about me or my family. Purge,purge,purge, then sleep 4 hours then purge again.
Yes! I didn’t sleep at all last night. I’m obsessing over what is taking place in the United States.
I’m also obsessing over watching my family gloat over helping to elect a rapist, a liar, a philanderer, a con man, a Russian asset. I no longer want anything to do with them.
I haven’t slept well since the election. I keep having dream-mare conversations with members of my family with variations of, “you didn’t like her laugh so you voted for a rapist?”
Yes! I fear I won't get a good night's sleep, or more than 2-4 hours sleep, for at least the next 4 years. Walking around in an exhausted, angry fog, has become my new norm.
Yes. I keep waking up at 3:00 am from horrendous nightmares, and lay there thinking of this monster, his enablers, the dumbasses that voted for him, and the terror coming.
Quit drinking two years ago and just got my sleeping habits to a better place wake up at 3am then I go back to sleep. Week of election no sleep though….
I'm pretty consistent in my inconsistency. I'm all over the place - 2 hours some nights, 8 hours others nights, some nights no hours. I was hoping the election would sooth my soul, but....
I basically nap. Three hours at a time, then, no matter how hard I try, I am up for a half hr or so, then repeat. Every night, no matter when I go to bed.
Yes , I can't sleep . Most nights fall sleep about 7 or 8am then drag myself out of bed around 1pm . Tired all the time , I would just love one good night's sleep , like 8hrs ....
Yes and I don't like it I'm only sleeping about 4 hours, but I hope things will calm down in my head soon and we can all get back to whatever normal is
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It's killing any motivation I had. Hate it at the moment
Would love to experience it.
Today, woke up at 3:00 am, unable to go back to sleep, worrying. This is typical now and I feel like a walking zombie.
Wake in the night, same thing.
It’s trauma response.
and then panic attack
it's really getting me down I gotta tell you
If I'm lucky, I'll get 4 hours a night, split into two sessions. 10pm until midnight and then from 2 to 4 am.
If I'm exhausted from something, I can squeeze another hour in there somewhere.
Why...because I have a neurological disorder.
Best of luck, we are here for you 💙
Get up to pee, drink water because real bad-tasting cottonmouth, go back to bed, repeat.
But the bed was so warm!
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My sleep sucks
My thoughts suck
My eating sucks
I’m making a deliberate effort starting today to do better
I’m not the stupid asshole who voted for him
Why am I punishing myself?
I fear what hell I’ll wake
up to the next day 💙💙
I’m also obsessing over watching my family gloat over helping to elect a rapist, a liar, a philanderer, a con man, a Russian asset. I no longer want anything to do with them.
still dizzy through the day, but getting better.
Every night I’m getting robbed or in a state of panic over something.
Even weirder I’m remembering every single dream.
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