Sleep deprivation

Mamabear79
Mamabear79 Online Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
in Mental health and wellbeing

Anyone else find it hard to sleep

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  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 1,020 Trailblazing

    Yep, every night for the last 32 years, you get used to it.

  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,270 Championing

    I go out like a light, one of the few things i'm good at. Just looking at my tablet for a bit first.

  • Doglover2
    Doglover2 Online Community Member Posts: 263 Empowering
    edited August 9

    @Mamabear77, 40 years of it,no help from gp,not remotely interested, I am a basket case because it it,I've had a particularly bad time this month of insomnia.

    It can be a factor in Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) which i now how.

    I'm exhausted, fatigued, cranky. And its hard enough for those with no particular health conditions to contend with but ive so bl**dy many on top of it too.

    You've my sympathy, ive never got used to it,it impacts on my life too harshly. I have trouble dropping off and if i do eventually i'm awake so many times overnight and only get v quick naps or else solid staring at the ceiling nonsense.

  • Passerby
    Passerby Online Community Member Posts: 875 Championing

    Sleeping is the thing that worries me the most in my life.

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 42 Connected

    I have trouble sleeping very hard to get help the doctor don’t like give sleep pills and have suggestions of cognitive therapy to help with insomnia I try some antidepressants that supposedly help but my brain always active at night make hard to sleep

  • Passerby
    Passerby Online Community Member Posts: 875 Championing
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1056776#Comment_1056776

    You're like a friend of mine, I guess. He browses the internet on his tablet for 10 minutes and then he's off for 10 hours. He never even bothers to set an alarm on his phone, as it can't wake him up. Fortunately, he lives with his family.

    I can't recall when was the last time I had 8 hours of sleep a night.

    Some people can't even understand you if you tell them you've sleep problems, as they take sleeping for granted.

  • WelshBlue
    WelshBlue Online Community Member Posts: 954 Championing

    Years of not sleeping until 6 months ago my psychologist made me see my GP … won't prescribe me anything addictive because of past drug addictions. Gave me Melatonin and it's a godsend. Waking up is the issue now 😁

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 42 Connected

    so glad you found something that works

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 42 Connected

    yes people don’t get it till they have problems them selves it is hard to sleep try everything

  • xodza
    xodza Online Community Member Posts: 42 Connected

    same for me don’t sleep for ages although don’t sleep in day because makes it worse at night sorry your have similar issues

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