Posted by baseball55 on January 6, 2015, at 19:43:58
In reply to Re: This time i'm done with meds » JPA, posted by phidippus on January 6, 2015, at 16:19:47
When I stopped drinking, I couldn't imagine how to get to sleep without alcohol and it took a while. Many sleepless nights. But my body did adjust.
The body and brain need sleep. Maybe not as much sleep as we get when we take sleep-enhancing drugs and alcohol. but we need sleep. And what I found is that, eventually, I learned to fall asleep. No particular technique. I just went enough days without sleep that I couldn't not sleep any longer.
I asked myself, what's the worst that can happen if I can't sleep?Just thinking about that question alleviated a lot of my anxiety about insomnia. What's the worst that can happen?
For me, the worst that could happen was that I could be alone, in the dark, with no defenses, reflecting on myself. And to solve this issue, all the sleep aids in the world wouldn't help. For that, I needed therapy.
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