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How to repair a broken sleep pattern?

Discussion in 'Self Improvement' started by magic05, Jul 10, 2020.

  1. Jul 10, 2020 #1
    magic05

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    I've read countless times that proper sleep is one of the if not the actual main requirements for good mental health.

    Now my sleeping pattern is ruined since many years. Like really ruined.

    I'm 30 and I haven't properly slept for 12 months.

    I have problems with sleeping since I'm already 15. Right now my weekly schedule is like that:

    Get up at late morning at 10-12 am. Go to work at 1 pm. Get home at 9 pm. Eat dinner, watch series, watch porn, drink alcohol. Go to sleep at 4-6 am. Repeat. Average length of sleep every night: 4-5 hours.

    I attempted to go to sleep earlier like 1 am (which would already be a huge success), but if I do that I lay awake for 5-6 hours ruminating. I'm so tired but just can't fall asleep, because I'm so restless. Unbearable. So I just stay awake until I'm tired until the point I can't take it anymore (usually 4-6 am) and usually involving alcohol.

    I feel like this guy from Fight Club. Constant insomnia. I can't focus on work. I can't work out in the gym. On weekends/holidays I sometimes sleep for 12-14 hours until late afternoon and feel incredibly refreshed and energized. But 1 day later the insomnia sets in again and goes through the entire week until the next weekend.

    This is going on for 12 months and before that I already had minor sleeping disorders for years. I have high blood pressure and high pulse and I think it's related. I have chest pain during the day. Sometimes I feel like I'm having a heart stroke soon. My therapist tells me I got to do something or it will damage my health severely in a few years. I already feel the effects. Bad focus. Bad memory (I forget so many things every day). Anxiety. Depression. Lethargy.

    I don't know what to do. Should I see a psychiatrist to get me prescription sleeping pills? Which kind? Should I admit myself to a rehab clinic?

    Did any of you experience similar sleeping disorders and how did you get in charge of it?
     
    magic05, Jul 10, 2020
    magic05, Jul 10, 2020
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  2. Jul 11, 2020 #2
    vercent99

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    look firstly i think you need to go to a doctor to get physical health advice, the psyiachtrist is for your mental health (also important)

    coming from a person who also has bad sleep schedule i will tell u my reasons and lets say if u are similar

    for me, i used to sleep around 2 am (in vacation this is early for me), then i did 4 am. After that I increased it to 5 am, then got stuck a long time on 6 am. Then usually at night i was bored so i did PMO, and since i have edging problem it would take many more hours from me. So this increases again how late i sleep. So now next day I sleep for example 9 am. And so on.

    I programmed myself to sleep later, i programmed myself not to feel tired yet on times that i am suposed to be sleepy at. But u say u wake up every time 10-12 am meanwhile for me my wake up time kept becoming later, the later i sleep. which is different to you. Yesterday i went to sleep at 4.30 am compared to 11 am from this week because somehow i was tired that "early"

    so u need to be tired while going to bed, how? instead of waking up at 10 am, try 9.30 am. Do it a few days to get used to it, then make it 9 am. Do that till ur at a comfortable time, maybe 8 am for example. So now u wake up more early, so u spend more time awake and that means u become tired easier at night so to compensate, u sleep earlier.

    If you set your alarm 30 minutes earlier, go to bed 30 minutes earlier, as to compensate for it

    about the alcohol i cant relate and i dont kniw anything about it sorry, but for sure u must go to a doctor for your health problems (also ironic from me because i have health problems and i dont go ..?)
     
    vercent99, Jul 11, 2020
    vercent99, Jul 11, 2020
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  3. Oct 18, 2020 #3
    ThePeakWae

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    No! What you need is figuring out your chronotype, by what you are talking about, you could be a dolphin (but pls go on youtube and do the test regardless), if thats the confirmed case, you should seriously use white noise for sleep all the times and check to see if you get better, as a dolphin, you´ll have a hard time setting a proper sleeping schedule, but you could make a recovery if you start getting whats going on in your head.

    As a dolphin you arent going to easily establish a sleep pattern so you have to be able to adapt, consideering you had this since 15, the odds of you being a dolphin just increased, search on dolphin chronotypes a solution will be available to you.
     
    ThePeakWae, Oct 18, 2020
    ThePeakWae, Oct 18, 2020
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