How can I improve my poor sleep pattern?

Question

My sleep pattern is getting worse and worse. It's getting to the stage where I dread going to sleep so much that I'll do anything to put it off. I've been like it almost a year now and it's starting to really effect my daily life, yet I still can't allow myself to sleep. Has anyone been through the same thing, or do you know a technique I can try?

Answer 1

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's work, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad.

Answer 2

You need to see your doctor, i suffered this for ages and it turned out to be sleep apnoea which is when your body stops breathing when you are asleep depriving the brain of oxygen. your body knows that no oxygen is bad and can prevent it from sleeping without you knowing any reason. Please see your GP yes it could be depression but this is also made worse by sleep apnoea.

Answer 3

I've recently been having the same kind of problem. i'm a student with a summer job i hate. i therefore don't want to sleep at night because the sooner i do, the sooner it will be the next day and i have to work again. because of this i try so hard to delay the coming of tomorrow for as long as possible, and that means staying awake all night or until the early hours of the morning. is there a similar reason for you not wanting to sleep? do u dread the next day for any reason?

Have you tried sleeping pills? hot baths? you probably have. I strongly recommend to you that you try hypnosis. not a cheap tape off the internet, but the real deal with a professional. they will uncover the reason why you're so desperate to put off sleep, if you do not already know it yourself. you should also see your doctor for stronger sleeping meds and other advice.

Good luck and sweet dreams :)

Answer 4

Have a hot bath with lavendar

& read a book

Answer 5

I know with some ppl sleeping problems can just be there regardless of whatever u do, but its worth checking how active u would be in the day times? Maybe try out an exercise plan to use up excess energy u may have and it may tire you out a bit. Do it early enough though, like not just before bedtime or you will only wake up even more....cycling, running etc...