Since the beginning of the epidemic, sleep has been even worse, and these 3 years have been the most serious. When I went to the doctor, I took the medicine and went home to eat it. Three months ago, I don't know why, taking medicine does not work, the doctor said that I was hospitalized, I was frightened, did not I sleep well? As for hospitalization? Is there any serious illness? I didn't sleep all night, my eyes staring at the ceiling.
I found that I couldn't sleep and couldn't die, but after I was a little dizzy, I was confused for a while. Later, I heard that someone in the next neighborhood was infected with the new crown, and began to sleep, afraid of going to the place where he went, afraid of droplets coming over, afraid of bringing the virus home, eager to do nucleic acid every day. What is even more infuriating is that I am not at ease when I see the nucleic acid results, and I am afraid that I am still in the incubation period. Lying in bed at night is full of viruses, infection pictures, turning over and over to sleep, hard to get, suddenly one is frightened by a spirit to wake up, always how to sleep, annoyed, irritable, almost collapsed!
I heard people say that insomnia has to take Traditional Chinese medicine, conditioning for half a year did not see good, pills, capsules, small pills, bedside table filled with two small baskets. Perhaps only friends with insomnia can truly experience this pain: hopefully getting medicine, getting a massager, sleeping mattress, and being destroyed again and again, that feeling of despair I don't know how to express in words. I am a person who crawled out of purgatory, and I sincerely hope that my friends who are still suffering from insomnia will get rid of insomnia as soon as possible and completely.
Insomnia days, I stayed up for more than ten years, during the day the brain is very tired, unreal, at night the brain is excited so excited that I am almost depressed. I ever wondered if I was depressed? Every day, people are not people, ghosts are not ghosts, and pessimism is extreme. But it was this insomnia experience that changed me, completely saving me from the prison of sensitivity and anxiety and moving towards the light.
Why do I have this idea? Because you have not personally experienced the pain of years of insomnia, it is impossible to put it to death and be reborn. Luckily, when I had the idea of giving up, a psychologist friend of mine recommended "Emotional Self-Help" and "You Are Your Own Psychiatrist." It was through the practice of the two methods in the book, "Meditation Method" and "Oath Method", that I strengthened my confidence a little bit, and finally got rid of insomnia completely.
I have to admit that what changed my mindset was what it changed. The reason why I have insomnia is because of my bad mental state and long-standing tangled personality.
Like many insomniacs, I can't sleep occasionally, I care about sleep for a period of time, and the nervousness of "afraid of not being able to sleep" shifts to sleep itself. In the book "Emotional Self-Help", it is emphasized that if you want to help yourself put down your expectations for sleep, untie this dead knot, first reduce your expectations of sleep, insomnia can't die, don't worry about sleeping less. It is this sensitive and suspicious heart that keeps pushing itself, and can only sleep for an hour or two, which is really less.
I've summarized 2 suggestions for insomnia self-help:
1. When you can't sleep, don't think about anything, especially don't make yourself feel asleep!
The more I want to sleep, the harder it is to fall asleep. Sleep is to work against you, the more you try to put yourself asleep, anxiety will correspondingly produce more, more pain, naturally more sleep, when you relax physically and mentally, the body will naturally fall asleep. In particular, we need to pay attention not to "relax" as a goal, and to try to relax, this is wrong and off track. Self-training friends must grasp the main points, I ran astray when I first practiced, and I struggled with relaxation all day.
Lying in bed to observe the breath, observing the breathing in and out of the nostrils (lying still and watching the breathing exercise), of course, this is not to let you relax, but to use the breath to cultivate your mind's ability to focus on the present moment, and then cut off the wild thoughts.
2. Change the old mentality and welcome a new self
Insomnia is not only the loss of sleep so simple, but also the loss of a sense of control over oneself. The sense of loss of control was the most intolerable to me, and then, after psychological tempering, I found that everything was in order, but I grasped too tightly and too hard. Take the matter of sleep, lying down easily and comfortably at night is actually no problem at all, and there will be no harm, if it is anxious sleep, accompanied by anxiety and fear, it is undoubtedly cocooning itself, and the harm comes from anxiety.
Once in a while, sleep badly, we will not care, once it develops into chronic insomnia, it must be a bad mentality at work, changing the bad mentality is the root of curing insomnia. I suggest that you read the two books "Emotional Self-Help" and "You Are Your Own Psychiatrist" to understand the use of psychology, the reality of sleep, and more importantly, master the way to cope with anxiety and insomnia, so that you can sleep well!