Searching for sleep: what helps you beat insomnia?

Tori_Scope

9pm is pretty good though @lisathomas50.

Yes, I was sorry to hear about your positive result. I've asked on the other thread, but are you going to be okay for food and other essential items? 

Lisatho11987777

@Tori_Scope I got a couple of things yesterday but not enough to last ten days I live on my own the last two times I had it I ended up in hospital  so I didn't have to worry probably won't feel like eating anyway 

Lisatho11987777

Its  the third time I just noticed i put 2nd 

Tori_Scope

Hopefully you won't need to end up in hospital again @lisathomas50. In the case that you do end up staying at home, would you be able to arrange a food delivery, or for someone you know to deliver some food to you? 

Do you have friends or family that can ring and check-up on you to see how you're feeling? 

Lisatho11987777

@Tori_Scope my family don't live by me they live in England its hard here delivery slots are taken up until end of February here and people where I live stay in they don't go out I will be ok I will just spread the food I have until  I can get out thank you for messaging me I live rural which makes it hard in this situation 

LizzySmith37

I have also realised that more often than not, a distance from one’s spiritual self also causes severe imbalance in life.

I say this because I myself have been a victim of insomnia and ever since I got my [Removed by moderator - advertising], all my problems have left.

I’ve started helping others do that same and it’s marvellous.

chloeblue04

I'm having trouble sleeping during the hot temperature in my room.

Tori_Scope

I think many of us have been finding this @chloeblue04! Have you found anything that's helped to cool your room down? 

Karen7788

It has been very hot at night, we put a bowl of ice cubes in front of a fan. When I have problems sleeping it’s usually because my mind goes into overdrive. I started using a thought blocking word, “the” is a good one as it doesn’t mean anything, you mouth the word every 5 seconds and it’s stops thoughts racing around your head.

Cartini

Through the whole of my life I`ve had an atrocious sleep pattern.  As a child, I had difficulties going to sleep, but when I eventually got to sleep, I slept well.  Now, as an adult, I could fall asleep on razor blades / mid conversation / on a washing line, but I couldn`t stay asleep until I was prescribed 30mg Amitriptyline a night.  No problem getting, or staying, asleep now.

Through my childhood and before I was prescribed Amitriptyline, one successful technique I used to induce sleep (or go back to sleep as an adult) was to pick a spot on the ceiling (or wall) and force myself to stay awake.   

bwlch1

I'm with books and dull radio to relax your brain for sleeping.

leeCal

I don’t have much trouble going to sleep anymore but I do have trouble waking up. I probably have around ten or eleven hours sleep a night now! Mind you I do force myself to stay in bed in the mornings most days.

Karen7788

Hi @Cartini,
Your technique of “picking a spot on the ceiling or wall” works in other situations too.
I used that very same technique when I was in labour, it does help you to relax, it’s also good when sitting in the dentists chair.