Sleep and Stress

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@amiablePeace77

How have you been sleeping lately? Is your sleep ever impacted by stress?

When I do not sleep enough at night I take naps.

I've always been an insomniac, my sleep varies on pain, never ending stress and trying to get comfortable but what I do for downtime is play asmr and game and that usually makes me really sleepy.

Also at night time I try to put my worries aside for the next day, that also helps

How have you been sleeping lately? Is your sleep ever impacted by stress?

My sleep can be impacted by stress. But on average it is quite good. I'm perhaps lucky that I have a condition that causes physical exhaustion, because that often drives me to sleep. I just have to watch that I don't go to bed earlier and earlier and end up waking earlier and earlier.

Depression impacts sleep too. If there is little motivation to face the next day, there's often little motivation to go to bed the night before.

Or the fear of painful thoughts filling that space before sleep arrives. At the moment I'm using screen activities to avoid that. Which isn't ideal. But at least it works.

@amiablePeace77

How have you been sleeping lately? Is your sleep ever impacted by stress?

I actually slept 9 hrs straight last night, I did say I was tired, I wish I could say that was normal rather than an exceptional occasion though 😉

My ADHD mind does tend to let me sleep 3-4 hrs at a go in general but I've learnt to at least rest with my legs elevated (reduces clot risk) so I can physically recover even a little when sleep is elusive. 

@amiablePeace77

How have you been sleeping lately? 

I’ve been able to sleep thankfully but I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night. Some nights I do eventually go back to sleep though but there’s also been some nights where I don’t go back to sleep and stay awake for the rest of the night. 

Is your sleep ever impacted by stress?

Possibly impacted by stress in addition to other things like too much thinking, too much on my mind, juggling too many things at once, etc etc etc. 

@amiablePeace77

My sleep has been all over the place lately, and worry has a big effect on it. I often have trouble falling asleep because my mind keeps going over the day's events and worries about what might go wrong in the future. Even when I can fall asleep, I often wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep. Because of this, I don't always feel fully refreshed when I wake up.

This trouble sleeping seems to be directly linked to ongoing worry. When I'm under a lot of stress, I have a harder time sleeping and feel mental and physical tension that makes it hard for me to rest. While I am still doing my job, the fact that I haven't been getting enough regular, restorative sleep has made things difficult, and I am working hard to fix this.