jrjones9933 wrote:
Insomnia also seems associated with depression.
For the record, sleep studies have compared the amount of sleep that insomniacs believe that they got with how much the researchers observed. You can at least feel good that however bad it seems, you almost certainly got more sleep than you think you did.
I have family members who regularly have trouble sleeping, and have seen how much they suffer. I rarely have trouble sleeping, usually when under extreme stress.
You may want to consider sleep apnea, dragons. That sounds like a real possibility, given what you describe. You don't sleep nearly as well if you don't breathe.
Yeah, my mom has mentioned the possibility of having me do a sleep study to see if they can find the cause of my insomnia issues. She's also said she thinks my dad has mild sleep apnea, so it's entirely possible that I might, too. If that's the case, treating it probably wouldn't help me get to sleep any faster, but it might make the sleep I do get more restful, which would probably be a vast improvement. I'm also capable of what I call resting, where I'm almost asleep but still conscious - I can usually do some of that even on nights when I can't get any actual sleep at all, and it helps a lot. And now that I think about it, I think my insomnia issues started getting really bad about the same time my depression did, so it's entirely possible the two are connected for me, at least.
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