I’ve tried everything to sleep!

[Guest_2658]

9 months ago I went to a Sleep clinic to see a specialist.

I was hooked up to the sleep machine and had a follow up meeting with a specialist. During the meeting we almost came to blows. The specialist told me that I had slept for 6 out of the 7 hours I was hooked up. I told him “Rubbish absolute rubbish”. I insinuated he was incompetent! At this point he asked me to leave. Anyway we both calmed down and he said to look at the scan.

The scan showed that I was asleep after 6 minutes blah blah blah. In all I slept 6 out of 7 hours. Bloody rubbish!!

what is wrong with me? Am I actually sleeping? Is there some part of my brain taking the pee? I feel that I’m lying there all night and not sleeping at all!

has anyone else on this forum had this sleep problem?

The problem occurred after I left a psychologically abusive marriage 2 years ago!! 2 years! I should be dead from lack of sleep!!

I should have be happy (leaving) but anxiety said No! I’ve got you now and I’m going to do you over. Anxiety twisted the whole thing around and made it my fault that the marriage broken down!!

I had a horrific 8weeks where I lost 15kgs and was pumping out enough adrenaline to power a city. I was stuck in fight or flight for 8 weeks solid. 24*7 with no respite.

Two years later my memory is starting to go and other symptoms that are pointing to early dementia!

Anyone out there with similar serious sleep issue?

[blondguy]

Hello Guest

Welcome to the forums and thanks for posting too!

I used to have the same awful problems with my sleep too especially when I was suffering from high end anxiety disorder.

Having the adrenaline pumping and have a quality sleep can be very hard to accomplish. I had to get my anxiety treated first and then the quality of sleep usually follows suit.

As you know when our sleep is poor quality it can leave the door open to additional anxiety the next day let alone feeling exhausted.

Beyond Blue have a great forum topic on sleep here that is a gold mine of tips & hints where getting a good sleep is concerned. Just copy & paste the link below. Its well worth a read. The thread title was written by one of our posters Mrs Dools.

https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/online-forums/permalink/qkpU-3HzvGGEbv8AAOnT_A

I hope you can let us know your thoughts

My kindest

Paul

[Sophie_M]

Hi Guest, as this thread is a continuation of one you already have open, we're going to close it off.  We ask our members to keep to one thread for support, it helps our community to assist you if they have all the information in front of them:

I know what it's like not to have anxiety