Look at any webpage giving sleep advice and this stuff will be there. I find it irritating, as a person for whom this is not enough.
Maybe I have not worked hard enough at establishing them.
OK, I observe some sleep hygiene rules:
- I sleep in the bedroom. I do not watch big screen there. I do not have my computer there. The computer is in the second bedroom which I use as an office. I do however use my phone in the bedroom. How bad is that?
- It is dark in my bedroom.
- My bedroom window is always open.
- I am fairly consistent with bedtime, with some deviations of course (staying late cost me dearly next day).
- I listen to quiet stories to fall asleep. I stopped listening to detective stories since they were activating to me and at times even scary.
But that is about it. I do not have an evolved bedtime ritual. How about you? What have you tried and what is working well if anything?
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Bipolar I w/psychotic features
Last inpatient stay in 2018
Lybalvi 10 mg
Naltrexone 75 mg
Gabapentin 1500 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects)
Long-term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued:
- Hypothyroidism
- Obesity BMI ~ 38
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