Weekly Prompt #14: How do you ensure a good night's sleep despite the anxiety?
Hello everyone, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week.
A couple of weeks ago we discussed: Do you find it difficult to embrace your imperfections and acknowledge your strengths? Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts for discussion. I enjoyed them. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you.
This week's prompt: How do you ensure a good night's sleep despite the anxiety? Have you found any relaxation techniques or bedtime routines that help?
Anxiety can disrupt your sleep patterns and lead to insomnia. This week I want us to reflect and explore this topic that can help with anxiety and sleep. Let's get started and all thoughts are welcomed!
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Get tired
Short answer nothing helps
The long answer is more of a rant
Sleep haha what is sleep? 3h or 4h on a good night 0h to 3h normally. I'm in pain my pain means I can't bounce off my ADHD. My ADHD makes my anxiety worse then my anxiety makes my pain worse and my pain makes my ADHD worse. We go round and round all my issues bonce into each other and sometimes when it comes to boom then crash I fall and nothing is ok. Sleep is frustrating.
@AutiBoy I am sorry to hear that Auti. It sounds like you are experiencing a difficult time with your health issues interacting in challenging ways. Not getting enough sleep can make life feel like a constant struggle. What's it been like trying to manage everything you're dealing with? You don't deserve to be in so much pain. I hope things get better for you. you have all of us here with you
@ASilentObserver
For what it's worth, one thing that we know from medical literature is that drinking a ton of water will kill your REM sleep more or less because it'll interrupt your cycle of sleep. I'm no expert but I'm somewhat of an expert on sleep and it's totally correct.