Sleep

There are many things you can try. One of them is Camomile Tea because that is good at encouraging Melatonin levels to rise. There's a YouTube doctor called Doctor Mandell who has an array of methods that can help wind you down.

I am lucky if I get around 2 hours sleep a night.

Same here!

Last night, I only got less than two hours full of horrible nightmares, and God knows how many herbal pills and teas, and supplements I had.

Like others have said, if falling asleep is the main problem, having something like watching tv or reading a book might help, but for some these may act as a stimulant and not help.

My sleep is still rubbish but a lot better than it was. Whether it's falling asleep or staying asleep (for me both). No one told me the following, I worked out myself. Before bedtime I followed my routine as advised (try and keep to same time to go to sleep, keep away from stimulating TV/phone etc, room temperature lowish, bedroom sanctuary of calm free of clutter, write down any issues going on inside your head and postpone till tomorrow etc.). But I think for me, doing all these things was setting up my brain to be more anxious due to previous months of poor sleep, i.e. the routine itself became the trigger for becoming more anxious, sort of a 'here we go again' my brain getting ready to be anxious to protect me. Then repeating the routine just compounds it. At its worst, just thinking about going to sleep was create anxiety (heart beat up, swirling thoughts, body on alert). I suppose a bit like preparing for imminent deployment to fight a battle in war, you're doing all the things to get yourself ready and your brain's getting anxious (for good reason) as it knows something bad is going to happen. But sleeping shouldn't be bad, maybe some of the time (e.g. family crisis), but not all the time.

So my advice is do sensible things to get you ready for sleep, but don't let your routine become your enemy. The routine system might work for most people, but you might not be most people. It's a bit like medication, it might work for most people, but for some they end up throwing up. And then you try to find something that does work, or at least a bit better. Keep the bits that you think are helping and drop the others.

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If you're getting 4 hours of sleep, you should be fine, instead of embarking yourself on such an addictive stuff which can easily lead to tolerance, which in turn could make you end up in buying the recreational version, as there are other people, including me, who would content themselves with getting just 2 hours of sleep.

Trust me, last night, I got less than 2 hours.

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