Stress / sleep patterns?!
Question: Been off work with stress for a week. Feel a lot calmer (resigning from my job helped!), but my sleep patterns are lousy. Either taking me several hours to get to sleep (4am last night), or I get to sleep, and then wake up every couple of hours.
I'm trying all the usual tips to get to sleep (no caffeine, etc) - but any guesses on how long it will take for my sleep to get back to normal? How long before symptoms of stress pass??
Answers: Been off work with stress for a week. Feel a lot calmer (resigning from my job helped!), but my sleep patterns are lousy. Either taking me several hours to get to sleep (4am last night), or I get to sleep, and then wake up every couple of hours.
I'm trying all the usual tips to get to sleep (no caffeine, etc) - but any guesses on how long it will take for my sleep to get back to normal? How long before symptoms of stress pass??
if your keeping to the "rules"
eg same sleep time,
no heavy foods 2 hours before you sleep,
no alcohol/caffine/sugar 6 hours before you sleep,
excercise everyday -like walking 20 mins -40 mins a day and an aerobic or cardeo excercise afew times a week for 45ish mins but not within 4 hours of going to bed
relaxation methods or taking up yoga to deal with unwinding before you go to sleep
going to bed and not having the tv on/radio on/stimulation, just dark and silence so its easier to sleep
It shouldnt take too long, I guess it depends on how long the problem dates back to and how stressed you were and if you actually dealt with this, like stress therapy or yoga and etc. I would expect if its recent- ie the disturbances to your sleep happened within about a year to 6 months, that it should take a month, and will feel worse before it gets better.
Dont take sleeping tablets, they do not work as your body never learns to shut itself down, its like turning the computer off at the plug without shutting it down, it leaves you disordientated and not able to function efficiently.Its also not quality sleep you have and also very easy to get addicted or find yourself dependant on them to get any sleep at all.
Best personal advice? get up at the same time every morning, go the gym, go shopping, go for a walk but be active an hour after gettng out of bed, keep yourself buyisy until its time to sleep, allowing yourself 9 hours so you can catch up on lost sleep, dp not become tempted to nap in the day, it willl not help! Eventualy you will sleep when you go to bed, just dont let yourself sleep in....
your not alone
i have the same problem,
but i dont know what the cure is :(
sorry!
i have same problems left on my own i will sleep from 4am-12p in that range anything else gets me loused up
well i had the same problem when i had no school for two weeks, basically you want to tire yourself out then just sleep at what ever time you normally do then make an alarm in the moring to what you normally wake up...and repeat this over till your back to normal...(not that you're weird)... :)
I suggest you get a toxic cleanse done. your body is probably toxic and when the body is that way everything is unbalance. go to www.naturalcures.com. you can also try taking some nutrition juice. you can read all about it on naturalcures.com I also saw on tv where if you cut up some onion and put in a jar, close it tightly and whenever you can't sleep you just open the jar and take a sniff. that will help.
I was in similar situation. relaxation and meditation helped me a lot (only awake tonight because of argument with my partner). Try to find "anxiety tool box" from Gloria "something", (sorry can't remenber her surname). There's CD with it, and the last track has relaxation and meditation (probably available from your local library). Try both at bedtime and during the day, did wonders to me. There's plenty of other book/CD, or even a relaxation and meditation course from your local college or yoga group. Of course, as you said, avoid caffeine, no food at least 4 hours before bed, warm milk before bed, bach flower remedies are good too (from your local health shop or the web).
You could have low thyroid or high thyroid. they will stress you out and giving you sleeping problems
my advise to you is... go for a long walk after dinner this will pump more air through your blood 'cleaning it out.. and you will just want to lay down and rest.. try a lavender bath or a bath bomb...have a massage... listen to calming music.. just do something where your body is gonna say wow lets rest now.. good luck
No offense to Nervanna, but natural cures is just a money making elaborate scam. I happen to have worked for a call center outside of the USA that was affiliated with the book naturalcures. I feel sorry for myself having participated in the scam - they sign you up for about 2-4 of my call center's web sites at the same time as the book. Nobody realizing they are actually consenting to pay us $14.95 - $29.95/ month per web site. Kevin Trudeau has been to jail twice for a reason - he is good at scamming people. Jumping up and down on a trampoline while dressed in white to relieve depression? Please. He only wants you to get interested and excited then pay for his book, which is really not free since you pay for shipping - it gives you incomplete information; you have to pay on his website for the complete info.
Once you get back into your routine of getting up at 9am and going to bed at 10-11pm, you won't have a problem sleeping.
Your body's changing right now as it was so used to getting up early to goto work. All of a sudden there's a lot of stress to deal with and a change of sleeping pattern.
Don't worry so much about it, just goto bed when you feel like and wake up when you want. Think of it as a vacation.
You're stressed out, so your body could do with rest, even if you don't goto bed until 4am, that won't matter so long as you have a nice long sleep.
Whenever you choose to go back to work, your body will get used to getting up early again - you won't need to force it.
But in the meantime, make the most of not working!!