30min naps REALLY has me refreshed every day. It has proven to increase productivity and certain countries have beds at the workplace and it doesnt affect your circadian rythm
My wife was reading a book called sleep revolution. One thing that helped me was that it said that waking up is perfectly ok and to look at it that way. If I now wake up in the middle of the night, I simply get a drink of water while I look out the window and say to myself that everything is ok and I can go back to sleep. Waking in the middle of the night might be a deep rooted defence mechanism that we got from our ancestors; waking to stoke the fire or watch out for danger in the night. Just relax and accept it, you’re normal.
But what if you never woke up in the middle of the night like that for most of your life until a certain event happened or until you had children, whatever your particular trigger was? I think it becomes a little harder to make that argument then.
Wise. Acceptance begets change. Sleep is about letting go, releasing mental control. Also, waking up and going back to sleep quickly can create interesting dreams in my experience.
Just found your channel, and it’s been a godsend. Looking through your video titles, I feel like 90% of them were recorded just for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is so me. I used to go to sleep at about 11:00 to 12:00 o'clock but wake up right after 3:00 everyday, no matter how tired I was the previous day. This went on for months. My performance at my workplace plummeted, I had no energy for social life as well. That is when I decided to go to a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with MDD and GAD. Never hesitate to seek help. My medication and therapy helped me a great deal
I had insomnia at night every since I was a kid .complained to every doctor . They said basic sleep hygiene which did nothing. By my teens i had insomnia alternating with depression. Again the doctors said go for a walk . Your just a little sad . Can you tell where this is going? At 40 i didn't sleep for 5 days became psychotic . Once I was well after 3 weeks in hospital. I was diagnosed with bipolar. The psychiatrist asked me my medical history. He said why didn't you tell anyone. At that point i had honestly lost count how many doctors, counsellors and psychologists I told . Not one said this is beyond my education it could be mood disorder and you need a psychiatrist to deal with that. I found everyone I dealt with profoundly territorial . I can't see a podiatrist saying no no you don't need a neurologist I'm sure i can fix your seizures though your feet. But not one of the people I went to ever made a referral or even suggested I needed one. Symptoms since I was 12 no help till I was 40 . Take insomnia seriously even if everyone else doesn't. Don't take it's normal or it's nothing serious as an answer. Go to a sleep specialist and or a psychiatrist if you're sleeping very little or way too much. Something is up.
Ahhhh yes, the good old "Why didn't you tell anyone?" when you've told and begged and cried and pleaded for help for years to dozens of "providers." Not just in sleep/psychology, but in *everything* remotely to do with mental or physical health these days. People are suffering intensely and/or passing away because of what you described. I've certainly had my share of this inexcusable treatment. I hope you are doing well and healing from all you went through. Wishing you the best!
@@DriftlessWarrior yes once I got a doctor who actually knew what he was doing it was very easy to make me well. I had basic meds for bipolar but developed anxiety after the intense mania . My Psychiatrist spent a year trying different combinations till we hit on one that worked perfectly. I've been in remission symptom free for over ten years. All it took was one provider to actually listen and put their knowledge to work. Why that is so difficult I'll never know. It's like the people who go into customer service who can't stand dealing with people. Don't go for a job if you're not willing to do the work.
This sounds painfully familliar - I have had insomnia ever since I can remember, asked for help so many times at so many doctors I just gave up bothering with doctors all together. The most healthily I ever slept was when I used ketamine to sleep and cocaine to wake up - I held down a 50k job, won awards, had a life... but of course that is not financially sustainable long term nor is it healthy in other regards. No official diagnosis, just 'sleep disturbances' or 'sleep hygeine' advice or more ineffective pills with horrible side effects again and again every time I need to be signed off work. Now I smoke cannabis when I can afford it, which helps a little, way more than any pills the docs ever threw at me. At the worst I was awake 4-5 days at a time; auditry and visual hallucinations, exhaustion, brain fog, eye pain, headaches, muscle spasms, disassociation, confusion - it's appalling. Now, when I can afford cannabis I can usually manage sleep every 2-3 days, but I can't work. When my body finally does give out I crash for a straight 10-12 hours at a time, you can't wake me for anything. Holding down a job schedule is futile. Once I'm asleep, I'm comatose. Until my body gives up, no chance of even a 5 minute nap. I thought I was the only one treated this way by doctors and therapists. I'm 37, this has been my life ever since I can remember.
@@jynxbmd851 please get evaluated by a decent psychiatrist. What you described is not normal and should not be ignored even if doctors have ignored it in the past . All you need is one good doctor with ears to hear you. Never give up trying to find that one good doctor. Life is so much easier when you are properly diagnosed and treated.
Biphasic sleep!! Was a lot more common in past and in fact was useful and expected. Having people who arent on same sleep schedule is actually really practical.... farmers etc. except in a world where most people are expected to sync to a predominantly 9-5 captialist. economy
I find that letting the cold night outside air into my bedroom is helpful for staying asleep. That causes me to snuggle under the blanket rather than toss and turn.
Pets are just like having children, especially as they become senior and geriatric age. My 16yo cat has CKD, arthritis and hind quarter nerve damage, is incontinent while asleep, eats very small meals 8-10 times throughout the day including overnight, and wails outside my bedroom door every night at 2am and 5am for either food or dry bedding. There's nothing I can do to change this fact of life until he passes over the rainbow bridge, so I have to accept interrupted sleep every night. 😢 But I love my cat and will do whatever he needs until the end. 🌈 ❤
59, and for about 8 years now I consistently wake up between 4 and 5. What makes it worse I wake up with anxiety. No pets, no substance abuse, no environmental issues and certainly no naps (I wish…). So I don’t know why this is happening. But it’s good to see in the comments I’m not alone. As far as I can tell chronic early waking is one of the least known issues people can have. I am also a chronic ruminator. For years I believed the rumination, anxiety and early waking were connected and fed each other, and that it needed to be fixed, that I needed to solve it. Lately I’m trying a different approach. These issues are *not* connected. The lack of sleep is a nuisance but it’s not a sign or symptom of my mental well being. It’s just what is. The anxiety and rumination are character traits which I don’t ‘blame’ anymore for me not being able to sleep properly. I’m now treating them with kindness and acceptance. I let them come, and allow them their moment. I now know they will eventually pass if I don’t fight them with negative attention. I’m hoping eventually I can find a way to be content or even enjoy waking up early.
i sleep fine, i struggle with waking up and feeling horrible, as day passes it gets better but is slow and i usually have my mornings feeling bad. It's like my brain just does what it takes to depress me when i wake up. At least i like to sleep and when my mind gets better i have energy. Thanks for the video and take care everyone!!
Important message. i suffered this for almost a year. Sleep four hours. Wake up. Try to fall asleep again, but as you say, the body is instead being more and more awake. The thing is i have slept well before and when i slept well. I was doing all things wrong, i smoked cigarettes, i drank somtimes, i worked shift hours, drank coffee all day long. Still i slept better. So, my best advice is to be happy for the four hours you actually get. Accept you are sleeping like this for now, and maybe it is not in your control to change, and do not shame or judge yourself. Do not nap during the day, instead meditate. If you can't silence the mind, try to calm your mind with short, unrelated meaningless words that you repeat like a mantra when you go to bed. Do not solve any problems in bed! If you wake up, get out of bed and meditate, if sleepines returns try and get more hours. But stay within fixed hours. Don't lay in bead more than say 9 hours. The amount of hours you ideally would want to sleep. And if you are stressing over your life situation. Tell yourself over and over the importance of good rest, to change your situation, so that the mind accepts you relaxed. Much of sleep disorders are when the individual have turned sleep/rest/relaxation into a threat. Boredom is also essential or sleepiness. Bee bored an hour before bedtime. I know this helped you.
I noticed that when I go into intense depressive episodes, my sleep will be messed up. I didn't know this had a name. Wish I knew this when I was 18. I would wake up a couple of hours before my alarm and was miserable for the rest of the day. But for about 2 months now, I was sleeping for about 4-5 hours on average. In the past, I would sleep 6-7 hours on average. I felt horrible, my focus and cognitive functions were shot, and I had trouble with my emotions. The worst part was being praised by my mom for sleeping less because I could wake up earlier. It doesn't help she's a short sleeper and base everything off of her experiences. It hurt me every time she brushed off my sleep problem. I just needed to get that off my chest. I finally got back on antidepressants and I think my sleep is slowly improving. But it's good to know all of this other stuff.
@kartheekketha6537 It made a good amount of change for me. I can finally get around 6-7 hours of sleep on average again. The antidepressants were one of many factors like improving sleep hygiene, fixing my night routine, meditation, therapy, melatonin pills, etc. Don't get me wrong, all of these haven't gotten me out of my depressive episode yet. I'm still in this same depressive episode back when I commented this 4 months ago. If anything, they all helped a little bit. I'm still trying to aim for 8 hours of sleep if my body will let me
Even as a baby I never slept more than 5 hours a night. Now I'm 62 and through the years that has declined to 3 hours, with times I can't sleep at all for days. I have both difficulty falling asleep AND early awakening, and feel exhausted all the time.
Thank you so much for doing a video on this!! Always have had problems falling asleep for as long as I can remember. Then starting 3 years ago, my dad passed away, and the very next day up until now have struggled with early morning awakening! It’s awful 😣 then when it’s time to get up, I am soooo tired 😓 Thank you for what you do, you are helping people have a better quality of life! 🙌🏼
That's me. I have cPTSD, which gives me nocturnal myoclonus, a sudden spasm of the whole body while sleeping or drifting off into sleep. Sometimes, I wake up because the spasm was so violent that I shake myself out of sleep.
I so agree! I usually don't have anymore caffeine after 2 pm. I drink maybe once or twice a year and if it doesn't happen, then so what. I also do keep myself on a sleep schedule. I try to go to bed at a certain time and always have a alarm in the morning to wake up. I wear a watch that gives me a sleep number everyday and the says that I turn off my alarm and go back to sleep, my sleep number is always lower since I end up sleeping 9 or 10 hours. I watch or listen to ASMR videos for a little bit when I go to bed so that my brain can be quiet and not think about things that happened that day or what I have to do the next day. Those things has helped my sleep number be good since I am getting enough sleep cycles. I just have to be a grown up and tell myself that it is time to go to bed and do it. I try to go to bed earlier than the time I want to go to sleep to give myself time for ASMR videos. I also take magnesium in the evenings also to help me get drowsy.
Yup, that's me. I've done most of what you have said but to no avail. Since I've retired, I've been able to go from 3 hrs. of sleep to 4 or maybe even 5 hours. This all started back in 1991 when I got a new job that became really stressful when I became a supervisor. That's when I went from regular sleep to three hours of sleep a night. Five years ago, I had a wife and three cats. since then, all have passed away except for one cat and he is a problem. He is an old cat but very persistent when he wants to be fed. When I know I have to get some sleep, I'll take a small swig of Nyquil and that helps. Well, that's the crux of my problem. I'm sure time will take care of my insomnia. Both my cat and I are old and its sort of a race to the grave 😀.
Dr Scott, I enjoy listening to you, since it´s so easy to understand and always very practical. I do became my additional therapist, and it enhances my knowledge and my own therapist appreciates it. Thank you !!
me too!! this is my problem for the last year especially. i’m 59 and things should have gotten easier for me over time but are now getting more and more difficult.
This is one of the reasons why I do not nap during the day. I WILL not take a nap (unless I'm incredibly sick which I haven't been in almost 10 years). I will push through until bedtime. On those days though, my head hits the pillow at 8pm. My reasons for not sleeping well are severe neuropathy in my legs, extreme hip pain, and carpal tunnel in my right arm.
I almost gave up my cats because of how much they were interrupting my sleep and I'm a vet tech. Weed also didn't let me sleep deeply and got rid of my dreams (I regularly dream vividly). We all like to cope until we're waking up crying and trying not to punch our cats. Change your habits, change your life!
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun. The song is correct when it feels like the hot Sun is beating down on you all the time. When you have to deal with multiple physical and mental health conditions plus the sleep problems life can be very hard. But on a positive note I can keep trying and that's what you have to do because life is very precious. It can be gone on in a blink of an eye.
I've had all these problems for years, and I can tell your viewers that you are correct. Sleep schedule, coffee, alcohol, pets, naps; these are all things you need to moderate and get under control if you are like me and have trouble with waking up constantly during the night/early morning.
I get what you are describing. Noticed it during menopause, it got worse after menopause, even worse after age 60. I've tried your do's and don't do any of your don'ts, all to no avail. I just figure it's a part of aging.
Never had this until this year. I read someone suggest a regular-strength Aspirin before bed to reduce inflammation, and it did work for me that night. Hope that helps someone.
The idea of going to bed & trying to sleep is such a torment that I begin to get anxious as soon as the sun sets knowing it will be another battle to get to sleep & stay asleep. Sometimes I stay awake for 1-2days b4 I exhaust myself to the point where I shutdown. It’s a horrible cycle.
I think too much talk is put into sleep. I think rest is the secret. Put your mind at ease. If absence of sleep killed I would if been dead a long time ago. I feel worse when I sleep. It depends in a person's metabolism. The secret is rest. Put your mind ease at waking moments. Rest is the word Doc .
I wake up between 2:30 am- 3:00am. And my parents just told me that they hate me and wished that they didn't have me. So that is going to definitely help.
What a terrible thing to say... I'm so sorry. I hope you can find a way to be happy and leave that behind. What they said is not your responsibility but mental and emotional hygiene IS. Good luck to you - I've been there (having very immature parents).
How about oversleeping? After doing years of sleep hygiene work and learning/training how to extend deeper cycles of sleep, can oversleeping become a problem? Sleeping up to 12, 16 or even sometimes 20 hours. Some day's rather be spent asleep, moving through deep cycles of vivid dreaming, than be awake and deal with constant mental noise and duress. Dream self is free, engaging and not full of crippling regret and loneliness. Feel genuine disappointment when waking up - so just roll over, do breath work and go back to sleep...
For those that might have some measure of insomnia or MDST- Disorder Multidimensional Sound triggering disorder: My hearing is the last thing to shutdown when i try to sleep. Recently I went to SD 3.75.9999999999 and realized that i was also at 3.0 at the same time. I could hear a youtube video on my headphones and talk to a girl at the same time in the dream vision, both at the same time. If you have insomnia, get a set of headphones or better yet, noise cancelling headphones to make your sense of hearing shutdown properly. Proper rest is found at SD 3.7, 3.75 or at 3.8 and above. I realize i was not disconnecting from this reality properly in order to have proper sleep. I hope this helps everyone. Insomnia is devastating. Heather O'Rourke showed up a few12 days ago and just smiled and smiled...she knew i had a great and powerful secret.
There is absolutely nothing embarrassing about being a cat person, even for men! Some of the coolest men I know are cat men. Cats are smart and empathetic. It's weird to me that dogs are always portrayed as a superior pet to cats. Why can't they both be cool? I don't get life.
Ditto. I have known lots of cat guys but yeah--the undying adulation of dogs make them more "relateable" I guess. Personally, I love em all, reptiles through mammals, bugs and all.
I’ve shifted sleep schedules MANY times in my life. Currently I’m a live in care attendant and the sleep schedule that makes the most sense is sleeping around 2am-11am. The person I care for has a similar sleep rhythm to me- more functional at night for example- so accepting that we both are “allowed “ a non traditional sleep schedule and sticking to it works. (We also have cats… one of them is attached to me but tries to wake me up at odd hours because he’s lonely or wants food [he always has crunchies in his bowl…]) Also AuDHD if the brackets within parentheses didn’t give it away, so having a schedule means I can function and when I don’t all systems are on fire 😅 It’s a long process of getting to a better sleep schedule, Im in a better place than 6 months ago. good luck to anyone trying to make a long term shift
So you said you don't get real rest from an hour nap, what if you sleep only an hour at a time at night? For years I have woken up every hour. Now I've been a little luckier to sleep up to 2 hours at a time someone's, but still never sleep through the night. I almost always wake up tired, even exhausted. I don't take naps unless I'm literally falling asleep. I have had sleep studies and the first one said I wake from startling 13 times an hour, but not apnea. The second study years later, last year, said I had very little REM sleep, but I actually do remember dreams so not sure I understand that. So what can I do to get sleep? Ambient made me one of those sleep drivers. I woke an hour away from home one time. I also wake early ever morning, but make myself go back to bed
I started waking up after 3-4 hours of sleep since the age of 14. By 24 i taught myself how to go back to sleep; downside, its sometimes hard to wake up in the morning now
Since I was 13 (im.now 34) I have always slept way to much sometimes I sleep for 4 days at a time. I need to do a sleep test but I believe it's depression sleeping to much or to little really sucks
i suffer from this, i didn't know it was a real thing i cut the coffee today cause of a short you posted, my mood is bad during night but honestly its noticably better, ill update here to let you all know if it works (i use tv to sleep but im also going to switch to white noise)
I’m struggling with going to bed and getting to sleep, have disturbed sleep (weird HRV around 3 am mark) but not wake up, and an immediate morning cortisol spike as soon as I am fully awake consciously awake 😢
Restricted sleep therapy is usually contraindicated for people who have bipolar disorder. I have bipolar and have done restricted sleep therapy myself unsupported to reset my disordered sleep but it's hard and I to be extremely careful else I could heve provoked an episode. Would like to see advice for people who cannot get themselves to go to bed and it's causing severe chronic sleep deprivation. I have a family member who struggles with this and I'm afraid it's going to kill him.
So what do you do when you have a slow heart and depression? Coffee( espresso) has been my only go to for helping with both. The doctor just ignores the slow heart problem. And I can't take serotonin type antidepressants as I fall down and break my bones. All the other antidepressants cause terrible constipation issues. So that's not good. Yes, my sleep cycle is bad, but I am able to keep my head above the water so I am not in so much despair and kill myself. Life is complicated and sometimes there just isn't an easy answer is what I am discovering unfortunately.
To add to my previous post and answer a couple questions, my cats are not allowed in my room while I sleep, I turn off the TV, but I do have tinnitis, so I listen to something to either help me fall asleep and shuts off after a bit, or I listen to something that runs for 8 hours. I also have my ceiling fan running. And I use light blocking curtains.
GOING BACK TO SLEEP TIP: Remember/replay a portion of a previous mundane or comforting dream (even if it was weird and/or from a long time ago)! 1. Get in a comfortable position; 2. Feel the sensations of the bed, sheet, blanket, and pillow on various parts of your body, take a deep breath, then exhale and relax into the sensations; 3. Gently remember/replay a portion of a previous dream. This formula can help guide your brain into a sleep mode.
For me the main culprit is anxiety. If I have ANY obligation the next day (regardless work or fun), I wake up too early stressing about it. I often take valerian/l-theanine to try and get that other couple hours. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. If I have NO obligations whatsoever, then I can usually fall back asleep right away and essentially get a full night (7 hours for me). But that is definitely the exception rather than the norm.
I have no life whatsoever. I'm retired and there is nothing that I ever actually have to do unless I want to. But, I never get more than 6 hours. Even drug are not much of a help.
What about dark chocolate? Someone told me it has caffeine and would keep me awake. I don't eat any of it past around 4 pm. I love cats, and I think I slept better when I had a cat. She slept with me and made me feel secure :)
I give my cats food at 5-6pm. That's it. They graze. They NEVER bother me at night. I stopped giving my cat in the morning when she got up at 2-3 hour every night to ask for food for 17 years. Now my boys and I always sleep together. I don't know why more people won't learn to give their pets food at night instead. Luckily I don't have cats that eat instantly either. But more people should try this to help with animals who beg for food at night. Then they can work at other of the problems to help them with deeper sleeping should they need. Naps are a problem so as much as I love them, they are rare.
I can only sleep for 2 hours at a time at night. But if I stay up all night, and go to sleep in the morning I can stay asleep till noon then have lunch, and fall back to sleep till 5 pm.
cognitive decline of 10% per hour loss of sleep. then I must be at negative one billion percent because I haven't slept more than about 4 to 5 hours of sleep for a couple of decades. I go to sleep quickly and sleep deeply those 4 to 5 hours and seem to function fine in a high tech job. I tried keeping my cat out but he mewed continuously for an hour wanting in, so I got up and let him in, he curled up next to me, went to sleep as did I. I do not drink alcohol and last caffeine I have is by 0700.
I have narcolepsy and work 7pm-7am 3 nights a week, while having to sleep "normal" hours the rest of the week. I don't suppose you have any advice for narcolepsy and/or night nurse shift work (as most nurses only work 3-4 days a week)?
8 get stresses jbowing tge kiyxhen cabinets will get slammed or tge fridge wil beep or plates will be thrown im such a kight sleeper that when any noise occurs im up.
Dr. Eilers I don’t mean to bother you, but I just wanted to let you know that the last two thumbnail headlines you’ve had on your TH-cam channel have been incorrectly spelled. First, it was the word stressors that only had one S and now it’s the word, insomnia, that’s spelled, insomina. It’s very distracting.
This happens to me only everyday I manage to sleep on time, the rest of the time I fall on my weird judged by everyone non life possible schdule: I stay up all night working/ studying or doing something else if I don’t have urgent work and fall asleep when the sun rises. This obviously makes me unable to live normally and I had doctors tell me could “just be my body/brain”. Another issue is I can only work and study an adrenaline so close to the day it counts and do a big “challenge for myself”. I know several of this symptoms are just my adhd diagnosis but the paper I got said “mild” so how can this be justified? I am basically stopped from doing the things I always loved. I have to say despite of doing then this way I have always had really good results but my health is obviously being hurt. On days exams are in the morning I don’t sleep at all and when I work at events in the morning the same. And then I always end up the event crying of just my Brain being so unable to process things.. And yeah when I work really hard on a sleeping schedule and routine it works but I end up suffering too, waking up maybe after 3 hours of sleep, being completely unable to fall back asleep (this doesn’t happen when I am at this late adhd clock, actually the opposite happens but I can able so sleep like 12h sometimes missing important things). EDIT: I am also aware of my on and off going depression from the time I stated having this symptoms (the time I became an adult) even tho I had insomnia before I just couldn’t not wake up at 8 everyday. I would also already be late everyday to school back them, with my brother and dad. In the meanwhile I have been on several anti depressants.
Just a note to everyone that Xanax actually lowers your cortisol. Are benzos, especially long-term use of them, the best solution in the world? No, but if you ever wondered why you don't seem to function off of Xanax, that might be why. Never get off of that suddenly; you want to gradually decrease.
So far I've blamed menopause and an ADHD-brain (no diagnosis, but my brain is always generating idea's). Makes me wonder how briljant I would be when rested (I'm performing excellent at the moment, only with a short fuse when irritated).
Sending ❤ to everyone struggling with this, I am and it's awful 😢 I've gotten into terrible habits like catching up in day, going back to bed when my daughter goes to school, which I know is making things worse, but dealing with some health issues and stress right now, I can't cope with getting through the day due to feeling so sleep deprived and low, it's holding my life back and enough is enough and I need to deal with it head on, i am going to look into the app. Scott, are your your services available to me in the UK?
I also heard that autistic folks commonly go to bed much much later - like 1am. Curious if there is a mechanism? (Maybe productivity after NT folks have quieted down.)
I've always been a night owl since I was 12. Always had a hard time to maintain a routine of a "regular" sleep schedule. My best hours of thinking come late at night. It gives me time to reflect on the day. I'm a high-masking autistic. Maybe you're onto something.
Or possibly, those who can't sleep, maybe are not having autistism, but have insomnia. Many health issues can mimic other issues, so is this a possible mimic, coinkidink? I don't know for sure either. You might have a point, maybe not?
I'm not autistic, but ever since puberty, I can't sleep before 2 am w/o drugs. I had sleep testing and found out my circadian "day" is 26 hrs., not 24, so I will always be a night owl. I was told to work the second shift and it made all the difference. Later in life, I had to work first shift (too long of a story) and developed fibromyalgia. Since then, I wake up every 90 minutes, even with drugs and supplements. The sleep doctor had warned me about that and told me I'd always need to work second shift. Now, I can't work at all. So, I think a sleep study may be worth it for people with serious issues.
I think your channel is obscured because disfunction is profitable 😅I had a hell of a time finding your channel on my alt even though I knew the title. Had to scroll through pages of jordan peterson before my nausea took over
Hi Scott, do you think CBT-i is suitable for people who wake up often due to medical conditions, specifically when the condition cannot be improved in order to prevent this? I sometimes encounter patients who wake up to for example, deal with medical device alarms, but from time to time also wake up feeling anxious that they might have to do an intervention, get medication et cetera
I have had chronic insomnia and early.awakening since childhood due to the chaos and instability of CPTSD. The only thing that has ever helped is as low a dose as possible of prescribed medication. Absolutely nothing else works for me.
This makes me wonder how and why anyone chooses to be a parent. Life is already miserable enough. Kids are cute, but you're hormonal, sleep deprived and your hands are tied. Sounds like a nightmare.
30min naps REALLY has me refreshed every day. It has proven to increase productivity and certain countries have beds at the workplace and it doesnt affect your circadian rythm
My wife was reading a book called sleep revolution.
One thing that helped me was that it said that waking up is perfectly ok and to look at it that way.
If I now wake up in the middle of the night, I simply get a drink of water while I look out the window and say to myself that everything is ok and I can go back to sleep. Waking in the middle of the night might be a deep rooted defence mechanism that we got from our ancestors; waking to stoke the fire or watch out for danger in the night. Just relax and accept it, you’re normal.
But what if you never woke up in the middle of the night like that for most of your life until a certain event happened or until you had children, whatever your particular trigger was? I think it becomes a little harder to make that argument then.
I can't relax I got a 10 hour shift in a warehouse and I NEED MY SLEEP
Wise. Acceptance begets change. Sleep is about letting go, releasing mental control.
Also, waking up and going back to sleep quickly can create interesting dreams in my experience.
My 3-5am wakefulness started when I had a child. It was necessary for me to maintain a certain level of wakefulness, but then I never got over it.
Just found your channel, and it’s been a godsend. Looking through your video titles, I feel like 90% of them were recorded just for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I always wake up at 03:30 am, every single night. 😢
This is so me. I used to go to sleep at about 11:00 to 12:00 o'clock but wake up right after 3:00 everyday, no matter how tired I was the previous day. This went on for months. My performance at my workplace plummeted, I had no energy for social life as well. That is when I decided to go to a psychiatrist and got diagnosed with MDD and GAD. Never hesitate to seek help. My medication and therapy helped me a great deal
@@rupsamukherjee3679 What is MDD and GAD?
For me it's 4:30 am
@@rupsamukherjee3679what med please ??
Demons most active in that time. From 3.00 to 4.00 am. Something is wrong with soul.
In only the first minute you've described basically every single night for me.
I had insomnia at night every since I was a kid .complained to every doctor . They said basic sleep hygiene which did nothing. By my teens i had insomnia alternating with depression. Again the doctors said go for a walk . Your just a little sad . Can you tell where this is going? At 40 i didn't sleep for 5 days became psychotic . Once I was well after 3 weeks in hospital. I was diagnosed with bipolar. The psychiatrist asked me my medical history. He said why didn't you tell anyone. At that point i had honestly lost count how many doctors, counsellors and psychologists I told . Not one said this is beyond my education it could be mood disorder and you need a psychiatrist to deal with that. I found everyone I dealt with profoundly territorial . I can't see a podiatrist saying no no you don't need a neurologist I'm sure i can fix your seizures though your feet. But not one of the people I went to ever made a referral or even suggested I needed one. Symptoms since I was 12 no help till I was 40 . Take insomnia seriously even if everyone else doesn't. Don't take it's normal or it's nothing serious as an answer. Go to a sleep specialist and or a psychiatrist if you're sleeping very little or way too much. Something is up.
Ahhhh yes, the good old "Why didn't you tell anyone?" when you've told and begged and cried and pleaded for help for years to dozens of "providers." Not just in sleep/psychology, but in *everything* remotely to do with mental or physical health these days. People are suffering intensely and/or passing away because of what you described. I've certainly had my share of this inexcusable treatment. I hope you are doing well and healing from all you went through. Wishing you the best!
@@DriftlessWarrior yes once I got a doctor who actually knew what he was doing it was very easy to make me well. I had basic meds for bipolar but developed anxiety after the intense mania . My Psychiatrist spent a year trying different combinations till we hit on one that worked perfectly. I've been in remission symptom free for over ten years. All it took was one provider to actually listen and put their knowledge to work. Why that is so difficult I'll never know. It's like the people who go into customer service who can't stand dealing with people. Don't go for a job if you're not willing to do the work.
This sounds painfully familliar - I have had insomnia ever since I can remember, asked for help so many times at so many doctors I just gave up bothering with doctors all together.
The most healthily I ever slept was when I used ketamine to sleep and cocaine to wake up - I held down a 50k job, won awards, had a life... but of course that is not financially sustainable long term nor is it healthy in other regards.
No official diagnosis, just 'sleep disturbances' or 'sleep hygeine' advice or more ineffective pills with horrible side effects again and again every time I need to be signed off work.
Now I smoke cannabis when I can afford it, which helps a little, way more than any pills the docs ever threw at me.
At the worst I was awake 4-5 days at a time; auditry and visual hallucinations, exhaustion, brain fog, eye pain, headaches, muscle spasms, disassociation, confusion - it's appalling.
Now, when I can afford cannabis I can usually manage sleep every 2-3 days, but I can't work.
When my body finally does give out I crash for a straight 10-12 hours at a time, you can't wake me for anything. Holding down a job schedule is futile.
Once I'm asleep, I'm comatose. Until my body gives up, no chance of even a 5 minute nap.
I thought I was the only one treated this way by doctors and therapists. I'm 37, this has been my life ever since I can remember.
@@jynxbmd851 please get evaluated by a decent psychiatrist. What you described is not normal and should not be ignored even if doctors have ignored it in the past . All you need is one good doctor with ears to hear you. Never give up trying to find that one good doctor. Life is so much easier when you are properly diagnosed and treated.
@@WhiteRabbitAnneyou give such a high importance to authority. Do you have any autonomy to figure out your own problems?
Thank you SO much just for acknowledging this, especially when you mentioned dreading going to bed and losing the sense of refuge.
Biphasic sleep!! Was a lot more common in past and in fact was useful and expected. Having people who arent on same sleep schedule is actually really practical.... farmers etc. except in a world where most people are expected to sync to a predominantly 9-5 captialist. economy
I find that letting the cold night outside air into my bedroom is helpful for staying asleep. That causes me to snuggle under the blanket rather than toss and turn.
Same. I usually have my a/c running all year to keep it cold in my room.
@graham167 Absolutely--Cool room is best for sleeo, but our temp starts to rise with those early am hormones. Need a smart fan to come on at 2 am!
Pets are just like having children, especially as they become senior and geriatric age. My 16yo cat has CKD, arthritis and hind quarter nerve damage, is incontinent while asleep, eats very small meals 8-10 times throughout the day including overnight, and wails outside my bedroom door every night at 2am and 5am for either food or dry bedding. There's nothing I can do to change this fact of life until he passes over the rainbow bridge, so I have to accept interrupted sleep every night. 😢 But I love my cat and will do whatever he needs until the end. 🌈 ❤
@@terised mine has same issues 11yrs I’ also have my 31 yr old special needs daughter to care for my cats rare my comfort
Have you looked into an automatic feeder? Im looking into one because my cats keep yelling at 3-5 ..
@@ANME1rocker I only use wet food since his CKD diagnosis.
I’m 33 and have experienced this my entire life.
59, and for about 8 years now I consistently wake up between 4 and 5. What makes it worse I wake up with anxiety.
No pets, no substance abuse, no environmental issues and certainly no naps (I wish…). So I don’t know why this is happening. But it’s good to see in the comments I’m not alone. As far as I can tell chronic early waking is one of the least known issues people can have.
I am also a chronic ruminator.
For years I believed the rumination, anxiety and early waking were connected and fed each other, and that it needed to be fixed, that I needed to solve it.
Lately I’m trying a different approach. These issues are *not* connected. The lack of sleep is a nuisance but it’s not a sign or symptom of my mental well being. It’s just what is.
The anxiety and rumination are character traits which I don’t ‘blame’ anymore for me not being able to sleep properly. I’m now treating them with kindness and acceptance. I let them come, and allow them their moment. I now know they will eventually pass if I don’t fight them with negative attention.
I’m hoping eventually I can find a way to be content or even enjoy waking up early.
For some strange reason it happens with old age. My grandparents were like that, they envied us kids for sleeping good.
i sleep fine, i struggle with waking up and feeling horrible, as day passes it gets better but is slow and i usually have my mornings feeling bad. It's like my brain just does what it takes to depress me when i wake up. At least i like to sleep and when my mind gets better i have energy. Thanks for the video and take care everyone!!
Awe .... thank-you!!! You too take care🌷
Try morning warm-up. Small exercise just for warm up. Sometimes it helps
Important message. i suffered this for almost a year. Sleep four hours. Wake up. Try to fall asleep again, but as you say, the body is instead being more and more awake.
The thing is i have slept well before and when i slept well. I was doing all things wrong, i smoked cigarettes, i drank somtimes, i worked shift hours, drank coffee all day long. Still i slept better. So, my best advice is to be happy for the four hours you actually get. Accept you are sleeping like this for now, and maybe it is not in your control to change, and do not shame or judge yourself.
Do not nap during the day, instead meditate. If you can't silence the mind, try to calm your mind with short, unrelated meaningless words that you repeat like a mantra when you go to bed. Do not solve any problems in bed! If you wake up, get out of bed and meditate, if sleepines returns try and get more hours. But stay within fixed hours. Don't lay in bead more than say 9 hours. The amount of hours you ideally would want to sleep.
And if you are stressing over your life situation. Tell yourself over and over the importance of good rest, to change your situation, so that the mind accepts you relaxed. Much of sleep disorders are when the individual have turned sleep/rest/relaxation into a threat. Boredom is also essential or sleepiness. Bee bored an hour before bedtime.
I know this helped you.
I noticed that when I go into intense depressive episodes, my sleep will be messed up. I didn't know this had a name. Wish I knew this when I was 18. I would wake up a couple of hours before my alarm and was miserable for the rest of the day.
But for about 2 months now, I was sleeping for about 4-5 hours on average. In the past, I would sleep 6-7 hours on average. I felt horrible, my focus and cognitive functions were shot, and I had trouble with my emotions. The worst part was being praised by my mom for sleeping less because I could wake up earlier. It doesn't help she's a short sleeper and base everything off of her experiences. It hurt me every time she brushed off my sleep problem. I just needed to get that off my chest.
I finally got back on antidepressants and I think my sleep is slowly improving. But it's good to know all of this other stuff.
Did anti-depressants actually cause significant change though?
@kartheekketha6537 It made a good amount of change for me. I can finally get around 6-7 hours of sleep on average again. The antidepressants were one of many factors like improving sleep hygiene, fixing my night routine, meditation, therapy, melatonin pills, etc. Don't get me wrong, all of these haven't gotten me out of my depressive episode yet. I'm still in this same depressive episode back when I commented this 4 months ago. If anything, they all helped a little bit. I'm still trying to aim for 8 hours of sleep if my body will let me
Even as a baby I never slept more than 5 hours a night. Now I'm 62 and through the years that has declined to 3 hours, with times I can't sleep at all for days. I have both difficulty falling asleep AND early awakening, and feel exhausted all the time.
Thank you so much for doing a video on this!! Always have had problems falling asleep for as long as I can remember. Then starting 3 years ago, my dad passed away, and the very next day up until now have struggled with early morning awakening! It’s awful 😣 then when it’s time to get up, I am soooo tired 😓 Thank you for what you do, you are helping people have a better quality of life! 🙌🏼
That's me. I have cPTSD, which gives me nocturnal myoclonus, a sudden spasm of the whole body while sleeping or drifting off into sleep. Sometimes, I wake up because the spasm was so violent that I shake myself out of sleep.
I so agree! I usually don't have anymore caffeine after 2 pm. I drink maybe once or twice a year and if it doesn't happen, then so what. I also do keep myself on a sleep schedule. I try to go to bed at a certain time and always have a alarm in the morning to wake up. I wear a watch that gives me a sleep number everyday and the says that I turn off my alarm and go back to sleep, my sleep number is always lower since I end up sleeping 9 or 10 hours. I watch or listen to ASMR videos for a little bit when I go to bed so that my brain can be quiet and not think about things that happened that day or what I have to do the next day. Those things has helped my sleep number be good since I am getting enough sleep cycles. I just have to be a grown up and tell myself that it is time to go to bed and do it. I try to go to bed earlier than the time I want to go to sleep to give myself time for ASMR videos. I also take magnesium in the evenings also to help me get drowsy.
Yup, that's me. I've done most of what you have said but to no avail. Since I've retired, I've been able to go from 3 hrs. of sleep to 4 or maybe even 5 hours. This all started back in 1991 when I got a new job that became really stressful when I became a supervisor. That's when I went from regular sleep to three hours of sleep a night. Five years ago, I had a wife and three cats. since then, all have passed away except for one cat and he is a problem. He is an old cat but very persistent when he wants to be fed. When I know I have to get some sleep, I'll take a small swig of Nyquil and that helps. Well, that's the crux of my problem. I'm sure time will take care of my insomnia. Both my cat and I are old and its sort of a race to the grave 😀.
Dr Scott, I enjoy listening to you, since it´s so easy to understand and always very practical. I do became my additional therapist, and it enhances my knowledge and my own therapist appreciates it. Thank you !!
Thank you for addressing this! I can barely stay asleep for more than 5 hours. On top of this, I have sleep apnea. It sucks.
me too!! this is my problem for the last year especially. i’m 59 and things should have gotten easier for me over time but are now getting more and more difficult.
Thanks for covering this topic! I struggle with insomnia and early morning wake up.
Early waking can be a symptom of pre/menopause for women. ThoughI have the opposite - severe bedtime procrastination. I will fight through ambien.
Yeah, 3 or 4 am most nights. I've cut caffeine way back. It hasn't helped. I look ten years older.
Since I can't sleep more than 3 hours a night it's not wonder I feel like a zombie moving through life.
😭😭 It's so ironic, because I feel like zombie too for sleeping for too long, specially having a naps throughout the day.
I sleep in shifts. Cats and me at 3 a.m, back to sleep at 8 till noon..ugh retired but sucks…
This is one of the reasons why I do not nap during the day. I WILL not take a nap (unless I'm incredibly sick which I haven't been in almost 10 years). I will push through until bedtime. On those days though, my head hits the pillow at 8pm. My reasons for not sleeping well are severe neuropathy in my legs, extreme hip pain, and carpal tunnel in my right arm.
My cat certainly has a chronic case of it! 🙄
I almost gave up my cats because of how much they were interrupting my sleep and I'm a vet tech. Weed also didn't let me sleep deeply and got rid of my dreams (I regularly dream vividly). We all like to cope until we're waking up crying and trying not to punch our cats. Change your habits, change your life!
Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun. The song is correct when it feels like the hot Sun is beating down on you all the time. When you have to deal with multiple physical and mental health conditions plus the sleep problems life can be very hard. But on a positive note I can keep trying and that's what you have to do because life is very precious. It can be gone on in a blink of an eye.
I've had all these problems for years, and I can tell your viewers that you are correct. Sleep schedule, coffee, alcohol, pets, naps; these are all things you need to moderate and get under control if you are like me and have trouble with waking up constantly during the night/early morning.
I get what you are describing. Noticed it during menopause, it got worse after menopause, even worse after age 60. I've tried your do's and don't do any of your don'ts, all to no avail. I just figure it's a part of aging.
I wake up about 5am full of anxiety. Saying that i live in a noisy area.
Never had this until this year. I read someone suggest a regular-strength Aspirin before bed to reduce inflammation, and it did work for me that night. Hope that helps someone.
I fall asleep around 9:30-10. I cannot sleep past 4am. It sucks.
That's 6 hours of sleep which is fine
Me too,i just change my mind about it,and I'm just fine.62 years ❤
Best time of the day. Having a cuppa sitting in the rising sun.
I wake up at 5am because my brain won't stop. Continues for hours.
The idea of going to bed & trying to sleep is such a torment that I begin to get anxious as soon as the sun sets knowing it will be another battle to get to sleep & stay asleep. Sometimes I stay awake for 1-2days b4 I exhaust myself to the point where I shutdown. It’s a horrible cycle.
I think too much talk is put into sleep.
I think rest is the secret.
Put your mind at ease.
If absence of sleep killed I would if been dead a long time ago.
I feel worse when I sleep.
It depends in a person's metabolism.
The secret is rest.
Put your mind ease at waking moments.
Rest is the word Doc .
I wake up between 2:30 am- 3:00am.
And my parents just told me that they hate me and wished that they didn't have me. So that is going to definitely help.
I ❤ you my friend.
Sending lots of love❤
Hey f*ck your parents...love u❤
What a terrible thing to say... I'm so sorry. I hope you can find a way to be happy and leave that behind. What they said is not your responsibility but mental and emotional hygiene IS. Good luck to you - I've been there (having very immature parents).
We love u here buddy keep the spirit on❤❤
For me it started with the trauma of my husband’s unexpected death at 2am and has continued with rumination.
I lie awake all the time, but when I do fall asleep, I am awakened early by my cats. Then, there's no going back to sleep.
We keep the cats out of the bedroom partly for this reason. My tuxedo cat likes to wake me up with little claws otherwise..
When I'm very stressed or wired i have these 6-7 am awakenings
How about oversleeping? After doing years of sleep hygiene work and learning/training how to extend deeper cycles of sleep, can oversleeping become a problem? Sleeping up to 12, 16 or even sometimes 20 hours. Some day's rather be spent asleep, moving through deep cycles of vivid dreaming, than be awake and deal with constant mental noise and duress. Dream self is free, engaging and not full of crippling regret and loneliness. Feel genuine disappointment when waking up - so just roll over, do breath work and go back to sleep...
For those that might have some measure of insomnia or MDST- Disorder Multidimensional Sound triggering disorder: My hearing is the last thing to shutdown when i try to sleep. Recently I went to SD 3.75.9999999999 and realized that i was also at 3.0 at the same time. I could hear a youtube video on my headphones and talk to a girl at the same time in the dream vision, both at the same time. If you have insomnia, get a set of headphones or better yet, noise cancelling headphones to make your sense of hearing shutdown properly. Proper rest is found at SD 3.7, 3.75 or at 3.8 and above. I realize i was not disconnecting from this reality properly in order to have proper sleep. I hope this helps everyone. Insomnia is devastating. Heather O'Rourke showed up a few12 days ago and just smiled and smiled...she knew i had a great and powerful secret.
I feel great when I wake early, like I'm accomplishing something..
I can't sleep
I wake up incredibly easily
My routine is completely messed up
Can't take this s*** anymore bro
Me either.
I fully understand you. I'm sorry others go through this hell as well.
MDST- Disorder Multidimensional Sound triggering disorder???? Heather might have a solution.
Me too
Praying to God my friend, talk to God about all your problem and let it in God hands. Relax and let God do the rest. Dont give up, you are not alone..
I’ve read that 30 minute naps (or rest) around mid day are actually very beneficial …hmmm…
There is absolutely nothing embarrassing about being a cat person, even for men! Some of the coolest men I know are cat men. Cats are smart and empathetic. It's weird to me that dogs are always portrayed as a superior pet to cats. Why can't they both be cool? I don't get life.
I don't get life either, and I'm 74. Maybe life can't be got (or gotten). 😮😊😂❤
Ditto. I have known lots of cat guys but yeah--the undying adulation of dogs make them more "relateable" I guess. Personally, I love em all, reptiles through mammals, bugs and all.
I’m a cat guy.
I sooo agreee😊
As a cat guy, I appreciate this comment.
I’ve shifted sleep schedules MANY times in my life. Currently I’m a live in care attendant and the sleep schedule that makes the most sense is sleeping around 2am-11am. The person I care for has a similar sleep rhythm to me- more functional at night for example- so accepting that we both are “allowed “ a non traditional sleep schedule and sticking to it works. (We also have cats… one of them is attached to me but tries to wake me up at odd hours because he’s lonely or wants food [he always has crunchies in his bowl…])
Also AuDHD if the brackets within parentheses didn’t give it away, so having a schedule means I can function and when I don’t all systems are on fire 😅
It’s a long process of getting to a better sleep schedule, Im in a better place than 6 months ago. good luck to anyone trying to make a long term shift
So you said you don't get real rest from an hour nap, what if you sleep only an hour at a time at night? For years I have woken up every hour. Now I've been a little luckier to sleep up to 2 hours at a time someone's, but still never sleep through the night. I almost always wake up tired, even exhausted. I don't take naps unless I'm literally falling asleep. I have had sleep studies and the first one said I wake from startling 13 times an hour, but not apnea. The second study years later, last year, said I had very little REM sleep, but I actually do remember dreams so not sure I understand that. So what can I do to get sleep? Ambient made me one of those sleep drivers. I woke an hour away from home one time. I also wake early ever morning, but make myself go back to bed
Story of my life for the last
forty years
I hear you!
I started waking up after 3-4 hours of sleep since the age of 14. By 24 i taught myself how to go back to sleep; downside, its sometimes hard to wake up in the morning now
I wake up between 1:30 and 3. Frustrating and total torture
Same…and if I take a sleeping pill…I feel so groggy all day. Almost worse than when I only sleep a few hours
Since I was 13 (im.now 34) I have always slept way to much sometimes I sleep for 4 days at a time. I need to do a sleep test but I believe it's depression sleeping to much or to little really sucks
i suffer from this, i didn't know it was a real thing
i cut the coffee today cause of a short you posted, my mood is bad during night but honestly its noticably better, ill update here to let you all know if it works (i use tv to sleep but im also going to switch to white noise)
I’m struggling with going to bed and getting to sleep, have disturbed sleep (weird HRV around 3 am mark) but not wake up, and an immediate morning cortisol spike as soon as I am fully awake consciously awake 😢
Restricted sleep therapy is usually contraindicated for people who have bipolar disorder. I have bipolar and have done restricted sleep therapy myself unsupported to reset my disordered sleep but it's hard and I to be extremely careful else I could heve provoked an episode.
Would like to see advice for people who cannot get themselves to go to bed and it's causing severe chronic sleep deprivation. I have a family member who struggles with this and I'm afraid it's going to kill him.
I can't stay asleep. 2 1/2 hours at best all night long.
Right there with you. Sucks rocks.
Same here! Exactly...
Did you guys have a traumatic experience? Or do something so bad, that caused depression?.... just wondering if it's just me.. 😢
So what do you do when you have a slow heart and depression? Coffee( espresso) has been my only go to for helping with both. The doctor just ignores the slow heart problem. And I can't take serotonin type antidepressants as I fall down and break my bones. All the other antidepressants cause terrible constipation issues. So that's not good. Yes, my sleep cycle is bad, but I am able to keep my head above the water so I am not in so much despair and kill myself. Life is complicated and sometimes there just isn't an easy answer is what I am discovering unfortunately.
I wake up a million times at night, I haven’t had full sleep for I don’t even know how long
To add to my previous post and answer a couple questions, my cats are not allowed in my room while I sleep, I turn off the TV, but I do have tinnitis, so I listen to something to either help me fall asleep and shuts off after a bit, or I listen to something that runs for 8 hours. I also have my ceiling fan running. And I use light blocking curtains.
GOING BACK TO SLEEP TIP: Remember/replay a portion of a previous mundane or comforting dream (even if it was weird and/or from a long time ago)! 1. Get in a comfortable position; 2. Feel the sensations of the bed, sheet, blanket, and pillow on various parts of your body, take a deep breath, then exhale and relax into the sensations; 3. Gently remember/replay a portion of a previous dream. This formula can help guide your brain into a sleep mode.
For me the main culprit is anxiety. If I have ANY obligation the next day (regardless work or fun), I wake up too early stressing about it. I often take valerian/l-theanine to try and get that other couple hours. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. If I have NO obligations whatsoever, then I can usually fall back asleep right away and essentially get a full night (7 hours for me). But that is definitely the exception rather than the norm.
Can't believe this whole video was a covert build-up to a flipping sponsored ad!! I wondered how long it would be before they got hold of you 😡
This video is very helpful right now.thank you.
I have no life whatsoever. I'm retired and there is nothing that I ever actually have to do unless I want to. But, I never get more than 6 hours. Even drug are not much of a help.
$300 minimum. THIS is why I friggin lose sleep!!!!!
@@peaceofleatherHuh? Are you referring to the app?
Wouldn't "early awakening" be the same thing as "difficulty staying asleep"? In other words, insomnia
What about dark chocolate? Someone told me it has caffeine and would keep me awake. I don't eat any of it past around 4 pm. I love cats, and I think I slept better when I had a cat. She slept with me and made me feel secure :)
Stomach acid can cause this. I have dyspepsia and if I eat in the evening/eat fatty foods I always wake up in the early hours..
I give my cats food at 5-6pm. That's it. They graze. They NEVER bother me at night. I stopped giving my cat in the morning when she got up at 2-3 hour every night to ask for food for 17 years. Now my boys and I always sleep together. I don't know why more people won't learn to give their pets food at night instead. Luckily I don't have cats that eat instantly either. But more people should try this to help with animals who beg for food at night. Then they can work at other of the problems to help them with deeper sleeping should they need. Naps are a problem so as much as I love them, they are rare.
Sounds like you're feeding them dry food, which we know is the worst thing for obligate carnivores to eat.
I can only sleep for 2 hours at a time at night. But if I stay up all night, and go to sleep in the morning I can stay asleep till noon then have lunch, and fall back to sleep till 5 pm.
I haven't slept past 3 am for over 15 years. It's been a nightmare.
Almost every day. Between 4/5 am. I have to set up for a couple hours then go back to bed. I’m 73 so I can do this but I’m exhausted.
what about being nocturnal?
I have become a night owl. It's so peaceful when no cars on the road etc. But it annoys everyone around me, cos I'm out of sync with life.
cognitive decline of 10% per hour loss of sleep. then I must be at negative one billion percent because I haven't slept more than about 4 to 5 hours of sleep for a couple of decades. I go to sleep quickly and sleep deeply those 4 to 5 hours and seem to function fine in a high tech job.
I tried keeping my cat out but he mewed continuously for an hour wanting in, so I got up and let him in, he curled up next to me, went to sleep as did I. I do not drink alcohol and last caffeine I have is by 0700.
It’s not cumulative so you’re at like 60-70% each day
I have narcolepsy and work 7pm-7am 3 nights a week, while having to sleep "normal" hours the rest of the week. I don't suppose you have any advice for narcolepsy and/or night nurse shift work (as most nurses only work 3-4 days a week)?
8 get stresses jbowing tge kiyxhen cabinets will get slammed or tge fridge wil beep or plates will be thrown im such a kight sleeper that when any noise occurs im up.
Dr. Eilers I don’t mean to bother you, but I just wanted to let you know that the last two thumbnail headlines you’ve had on your TH-cam channel have been incorrectly spelled. First, it was the word stressors that only had one S and now it’s the word, insomnia, that’s spelled, insomina. It’s very distracting.
I have bipolar 1 and this is happening to me so often in the last 3 years
This happens to me only everyday I manage to sleep on time, the rest of the time I fall on my weird judged by everyone non life possible schdule: I stay up all night working/ studying or doing something else if I don’t have urgent work and fall asleep when the sun rises. This obviously makes me unable to live normally and I had doctors tell me could “just be my body/brain”. Another issue is I can only work and study an adrenaline so close to the day it counts and do a big “challenge for myself”. I know several of this symptoms are just my adhd diagnosis but the paper I got said “mild” so how can this be justified? I am basically stopped from doing the things I always loved. I have to say despite of doing then this way I have always had really good results but my health is obviously being hurt. On days exams are in the morning I don’t sleep at all and when I work at events in the morning the same. And then I always end up the event crying of just my Brain being so unable to process things.. And yeah when I work really hard on a sleeping schedule and routine it works but I end up suffering too, waking up maybe after 3 hours of sleep, being completely unable to fall back asleep (this doesn’t happen when I am at this late adhd clock, actually the opposite happens but I can able so sleep like 12h sometimes missing important things).
EDIT: I am also aware of my on and off going depression from the time I stated having this symptoms (the time I became an adult) even tho I had insomnia before I just couldn’t not wake up at 8 everyday. I would also already be late everyday to school back them, with my brother and dad. In the meanwhile I have been on several anti depressants.
Now I know there is a name for it!
My experience is that for me, this kind of insomnia is a symptom of sleep disordered breathing.
Just a note to everyone that Xanax actually lowers your cortisol. Are benzos, especially long-term use of them, the best solution in the world? No, but if you ever wondered why you don't seem to function off of Xanax, that might be why. Never get off of that suddenly; you want to gradually decrease.
So far I've blamed menopause and an ADHD-brain (no diagnosis, but my brain is always generating idea's). Makes me wonder how briljant I would be when rested (I'm performing excellent at the moment, only with a short fuse when irritated).
On lots of meds, only way for me to cope
I listen to Stephen Dalton sleep stories when I wake up at night
Sending ❤ to everyone struggling with this, I am and it's awful 😢 I've gotten into terrible habits like catching up in day, going back to bed when my daughter goes to school, which I know is making things worse, but dealing with some health issues and stress right now, I can't cope with getting through the day due to feeling so sleep deprived and low, it's holding my life back and enough is enough and I need to deal with it head on, i am going to look into the app. Scott, are your your services available to me in the UK?
I only get 6 hours of sleep at best. I always wake up between 3:30am - 5am.
I also heard that autistic folks commonly go to bed much much later - like 1am. Curious if there is a mechanism? (Maybe productivity after NT folks have quieted down.)
I've always been a night owl since I was 12. Always had a hard time to maintain a routine of a "regular" sleep schedule. My best hours of thinking come late at night. It gives me time to reflect on the day. I'm a high-masking autistic. Maybe you're onto something.
Or possibly, those who can't sleep, maybe are not having autistism, but have insomnia. Many health issues can mimic other issues, so is this a possible mimic, coinkidink? I don't know for sure either. You might have a point, maybe not?
P.S., what is NT?
I'm not autistic, but ever since puberty, I can't sleep before 2 am w/o drugs. I had sleep testing and found out my circadian "day" is 26 hrs., not 24, so I will always be a night owl. I was told to work the second shift and it made all the difference. Later in life, I had to work first shift (too long of a story) and developed fibromyalgia. Since then, I wake up every 90 minutes, even with drugs and supplements. The sleep doctor had warned me about that and told me I'd always need to work second shift. Now, I can't work at all. So, I think a sleep study may be worth it for people with serious issues.
@@marcpavlikneurotypical(s), as opposed to neurodivergent(s)
I think your channel is obscured because disfunction is profitable 😅I had a hell of a time finding your channel on my alt even though I knew the title. Had to scroll through pages of jordan peterson before my nausea took over
Hi Scott, do you think CBT-i is suitable for people who wake up often due to medical conditions, specifically when the condition cannot be improved in order to prevent this? I sometimes encounter patients who wake up to for example, deal with medical device alarms, but from time to time also wake up feeling anxious that they might have to do an intervention, get medication et cetera
Can quetiapine or brexpiprazole worsen my sleep Maringá me awake in the middle of the night?
When I took quetiapine I slept excessively…like 10-14 hours a day
I have had chronic insomnia and early.awakening since childhood due to the chaos and instability of CPTSD. The only thing that has ever helped is as low a dose as possible of prescribed medication. Absolutely nothing else works for me.
not me having his videos play while i fall asleep
My cats sleep past me. TV sucks. I play music on iPad at night and helps me sleep,,
This makes me wonder how and why anyone chooses to be a parent. Life is already miserable enough. Kids are cute, but you're hormonal, sleep deprived and your hands are tied.
Sounds like a nightmare.
Yes, Pets waking me up at 1:30 a.m. to go potty. I love them, but I’ve recognized this.