cant sleep

[cathfach]

Depression is getting me realy down now ,Cant sleep ,Takes three of four hours lying awake ,thinking of everything ,Horrid feeling ,I take 2 Cocodamol tablets to try to sleep and ease my aching knee ,but then I wake and have to go to the loo and it takes hours to get back to sleep, Then I cant get out of bed until 2 pm

[Satsuma]

Darn cocodamol. They do the same to me .. I am going without tonight and see how I feel when I wake.

[LoriMS61]

Could you try listening to an audio book? They help me fall asleep when my mind is really active. I try to avoid the ones that are too engaging or have sound effects.

There's also some great exercises you can do through guided meditation where you tense and relax your body.

My husband will sometimes listen to the audiobooks with me, but we've occasionally gotten too engaged in the story and stayed awake to listen. Oops!

Hope these are useful suggestions.

Lori

[MattBuckland]

This sounds horrible.

Only advice that I can give is to let the thoughts in, recognise them and then try to question them, maybe tell yourself that you will do this in the morning, fighting the thoughts will keep you awake.

Sounds odd I know, took me a long time and a good therapist to try this.

Hope you get some sleep, Matt

[cathfach in reply to MattBuckland]

Thanks Matt. I am seeing my therapist on Friday ,x