Tired

[Trainchaser]

Another night of three hours sleep and wake up very anxious. Took my prn medication which doesn't seem to help me today. Still wired. Got a long day ahead of me. So frustrating. Tried tapping relaxing music all ineffective. Can't do this day after day

[LadyZen]

I use to have this awful habit of waking up at 2am and not being able to fall asleep. This is counterintuitive, but I set a nightlight to a timer in my bedroom. My nightlight comes on at 9pm and shuts off at 5am. So when I wake up at 2am now and I see the nightlight, I force my eyes to stay shut and try to fall back asleep. I still wake up in the middle of the night, but now I'm trained to fall back asleep and wake up after the nightlight shuts off at 5am. You may want to give it a try.

[Trainchaser in reply to LadyZen]

I may just try that. At this point I am up to anything

[Kevo1]

Sounds so like me at moment. I'm so tired. Tempted to get drunk to get one decent sleep. Prob not smartest thing though. Hope it improves for u and me. It's not pleasant is it.

[Trainchaser in reply to Kevo1]

I don't need to get drunk to get sleep like that. Only 3 or 4 drafts. But can never imagine doing that on a daily basis

[Overthought]

About 6 months ago a friend recommended ashwaghada to me for helping with anxiety and I confess in the beginning it was great after about a week the constant feeling in my chest was gone so I continued to take it everyday after about month 3 of consistently taking it I was a like an emotionless zombie honestly I did not care about anything at all I was purely waking up answering questions but in a yes or no fashion no wasted words performing my job step by step no issues.

The problem with that is you are a simply robotic and not really present it got to the point where people where telling me long drawn out stories and i was not taking any of it in.

Even my employer said your starting to lose the plot.

So I had to stop taking it as sure as night follows day after the third day of it the anxiety and over thinking where back.

I guess my point is all of these drugs seem to work as long as you’re taking them but it’s covering the issue not treating it.

[Trainchaser in reply to Overthought]

I was pit on 2 new medications and had 2 stopped. Today is not any better for me. Hopefully tomorrow will be better for me

[Overthought]

I’m not normaly a preaching kind of person and take this from a 37 year old man who has very few friends or people to talk to and who has not done this since I was at school but do you pray gosh I know how that sounds but after my encounter with the homeless guy yesterday I have had the sudden urge to start praying and you know what my anxiety is less I mean at the moment I have a situation going on that would normaly have made me a nervous anxious wreck and I can honestly feel it just being held back enough that my mind is not wandering or spinning over the issue it’s rather odd but I wanted to put it out there becuase if by some means prayer can alleviate your struggle I would give it a go what’s the worst that can happen