How did I recover after insomnia?

In July this year, I began to suffer from insomnia.

I didn't fall asleep on the first night, and I felt incredible, really surprised, and felt that I was finished. I want to announce the bad news to the whole family, but my parents will not believe it intuitively. After all, I have given up eating breakfast for many years to sleep. Before college, I was complained by all the class teachers that "your daughter sleeps in class every day".

I can only announce it to my husband. He told me to get up and study when I couldn't sleep, so that I could make faster progress. After listening, people reflect on why they want to get married.

I consoled myself with occasional insomnia, but I didn't fall asleep the next night. I didn't learn my lesson and told my husband, and he advised me to go to the hospital.

But I have read so many papers that I can't read them for nothing. We women have power, so we should save ourselves first. I was desperate for several days, but I was lucky. "I haven't tried a method. I'll try this method tonight and see if I can sleep. " I tried many methods:

One person/two people/crazy sex before bed.

Sleep spray/incense/massage

Avoid irritating diet/drink milk before going to bed/don't have liquid before going to bed.

Take a bath before going to bed/don't take a bath before going to bed.

Exercise in the morning/noon/afternoon/before going to bed.

Curtain shading/mute earplugs/goggles

Don't work at night/take your mobile phone out of the bedroom/ask your husband out of the bedroom.

……

I have been trying these methods for a week. Insomnia remains.

During such a long time, I didn't get enough sleep and became very anxious. My mind is full of metallic sounds, and my consciousness is confused. I seem to be trapped in a place, unable to sleep or wake up.

I just went to see a doctor. Took anti-anxiety drugs and sleeping pills.

That night, I slept for six hours for the first time.

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But people who have suffered from insomnia probably have this experience. At night, you will start to worry:

Can you sleep tonight?

Sleeping pills didn't work for a few days, so I went to see a doctor again. The doctor prescribed another medicine, which worked for a few days and then failed.

This is a common situation. The doctor told me not to worry. There are many medicines. Take your time and try enough.

I decided to take good care of myself, so I stopped working and left a lot of work on the platform to the assistant to help me. I plan to go home for half a month, feel the local flavor of my hometown, feel the slowest pace of life, and most importantly, be with my family. After all, people say that home is the harbor of the soul.

The day after I came home, my insomnia got worse.

What harbor of souls does not exist.

I increased the dosage of sleeping pills without authorization, and as a result, I couldn't sleep at all listening to the metal sound in my head all night; Later, because of poor math, I began to do high school math problems. Later, I found that although I still couldn't do the problem, I didn't fall asleep. Then I listen to English tapes by myself. I often fall asleep in listening tests. I didn't expect to follow them after listening for several nights. Going out to climb mountains during the day, thinking that I am so tired, how can I sleep? It still didn't work.

After half a month, I feel like I'm going to waste it. I had a big fight with my dad and then went back to Beijing.

But on the sleeper train back to Beijing, I actually fell asleep, sleeping for more than ten hours, sleeping from the starting point to the end.

Then I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I would sleep well during the trip, and even if I wasn't on the train, I would sleep better in the hotel that day, so I took a dense photo of the time difference, and I would sleep well on the day I went and the day I came back.

From here on, I found a little sense of control-there is always a way. If it is a big deal, I will travel every day and live in other places.

Now it seems too pretentious to ignore the cost. At first glance, only women without children can do it, but who cares about money then? This sudden insomnia not only deprived me of my ability to work, but also deprived me of my interest. Every morning after insomnia, I feel I don't want to live-that's why I want to write this article. I fully understand how damaging insomnia is to a person's life.

After I began to find a little sense of control, insomnia began to be less terrible. I relaxed a lot, went to see a doctor, took new sleeping pills, leaned back in bed at 10 in the evening and began to read. I also opened the window to let in the sound of traffic. I deliberately told my body, no, I'm not going to sleep.

Then I saw a ghost and fell asleep with a crash.

When I woke up, it was already half past one.

Although I haven't slept for a long time, I feel very happy with the feeling of sleeping before. I didn't take sleeping pills, so I continued reading. I was so sleepy that I struggled to turn the page-and then fell asleep again.

After that, I didn't take sleeping pills for several nights in a row, read at the bedside at half past ten, and then fell asleep with a clash-I used to sleep longer and longer, from two hours to four or five hours.

I lost sleep for three months in a row and finally recovered slowly.

This is a very lucky thing.

Although I am lucky, I also want to extract it by force. In this process, I gradually realized which methods are useful to me:

1. See a doctor as soon as possible, and don't be afraid to take sleeping pills. Don't worry about the side effects of sleeping pills, it is definitely not as harmful as insomnia. Sleeping pills are the most effective drugs for insomnia at present. Moreover, I later learned that I took sleeping pills in the early stage and delayed seeing a doctor, which caused great physical and psychological pressure and hindered the recovery of sleep. And if I don't take sleeping pills in time, I believe the next few methods are useless at all.

It is useful to ask your husband out of the bedroom. Hearing my husband sleeping beside me will not bring happiness, but only anxiety and jealousy. Insomnia made me lose my morality and kindness. Of course, if you don't have a husband or a cat, that's the best. You are the only one in the room, so you can avoid being disturbed by other sounds.

3. Avoid the stimulation of light. It is helpful not to play with mobile phones, watch TV and close curtains. I will choose to lie back in bed, read with the kindle, turn the light in the room to the darkest, and turn the screen of the kindle to a darker level.

It's no use falling asleep on purpose. Do something else if you can't sleep. Another thing I found for myself was reading. I even deliberately made it look like I didn't want to sleep. When I was sleepy, I struggled to turn the page and continue reading. Theoretically, I shouldn't read too wonderful novels, but I fell asleep while watching Game of Thrones.

5. Adjust your mood. Actually, this is the hardest part. The first time I saw a doctor, the doctor told me not to worry-I am a psychological counselor myself. Can I not know that it is best not to be anxious? But of course it's hard to do it. According to my actual situation, I did several things: first, I suspended all my work; Second, I am far away from the internet; Third, I have increased consumption, especially unnecessary consumption, which makes people feel good about themselves; Fourth, I have a cat.

I can't say which of the four things is the most important now, but I have done it all. When I do these things, I do observe that my mood is getting better. The first two things sum up to reduce stressors, and the last two things sum up to increase pleasure.

Besides, some things that I thought would make me feel better, such as dating, flirting and making love, are useless. They put a heavier burden on me because I know I'm not good enough now.

6. Find a sense of control, even a little. In fact, the sense of control can come from the doctor's sentence "there are many medicines, try slowly, don't worry", but I didn't realize it at that time. Later, I didn't feel any control over my sleep until I found that the journey could make me fall asleep. A sense of control is very important. Whether it is insomnia or other setbacks, what really makes people feel helpless and hurt is that we have lost our sense of control, so we are prone to helplessness and despair. It is this out of control that has brought me into the abyss of emotion and made me feel unwilling to live.

The above is personal experience, I hope it will be helpful to everyone.