[Alishia88]

Every once in a while I get one of extremely tired days. I hate those because I feel they are wasted days.

Sometimes even when I did sleep enough (like today) sometimes when I didn´t.

The problem is, I´m SO tired, but I cannot nap anymore during the day.

So I´m too wound up to nap, but too tired to do anything (I usually do stuff anyways, but it´s EXHAUSTING and usually not much fun).

Do you get it too? What do you do then? Any ideas for activities for these tired days? Where do they come from when you´ve slept enough?

[lightcatcher]

Hi alishia. I'm sorry you are struggling with this.

I do get this too, quite often actually. I've been thinking about why this happens for me and I have come to some ideas -
1: that I have so much in my head I'm trying to fight off that I get exhausted trying to contain everything. This is when I utilise my sessions with T.
2: when I have a lot going on at work, I know I need to stop this.
3: physical exhaustion- I have taken to working out a lot to exhaust my body so at night I can't stay awake.

I don't sleep during the day, but I do go to bed at a set time each night and sometimes even earlier (like 830). On days when I'm so tired I make sure I do something that's needed eg. House work, a walk or workout. And then I just rest, read a book, watch tv or movie etc. and I have to tell myself to not feel bad for this and that I need it.

Try and think about why you get tired, is it a body exhaustion, a mind exhaustion or emotional exhaustion. Do you have a T to talk to?
Take care :-)

[JaneC]

Alisha

I get these too, especially after a very exhausting session, or time when I have been triggered. My body and mind both feel completely exhausted, and no matter if I sleep or not I am exhausted often, because I have been dreaming and wakeful all night.

I am finally learning that it is ok, sometimes, to just sit and do absolutely nothing. I may watch a film that makes me laugh, or spend some time in my vege garden, or read a book......and sometimes I just can't help it but pass out on the sofa for a nap. It is ok. But like you I do still struggle with the whole keeping on going and doing stuff even when exhausted.

Try to be kind to yourself, and do something you enjoy.

[Open Eyes]

Alisha, I have this a lot too. I get tired, especially lately, yet I am too wound up to nap.
I end up turning on the TV and watching that and just laying in bed. Its the anxiety/cortisol building up that does this, it's exhausting. I personally feel like I just want to lay down and go to sleep and get "real rest", not restless sleep.

I thought it was just me and how what is going on with my new lawyer is really stirring things up in me, in a bad way. I had been doing better before that. I got to a point where I was really struggling, that's why I dumped in your thread like that.

What is going on in your life, anything that is stirring you up so you are more restless?

OE

[Mysterious Flyer]

Drink diet Coke when you're tired for no reason. It's way better than coffee. Seriously.

[Alishia88]

thank you for your answers!

OE, there are a few things going on at the moment for me.

I´m about to take a trip with my boyfriend for one thing, then there´s the online-therapy which I like doing and feel is helpful, but sometimes quite strenuous and overwhelming because it´s twice in the week.

And maybe most of all, I´ve been really struggling with excessive noise when I want to sleep!!! It´s soooo annoying.
I have a terrible neighbour above my bedroom that lives with 3 other roommates.

He has those weird waking and sleeping hours and sometimes starts to play music at 10 or 11 at night, or comes home at 3 then doesn´t go to bed but keeps moving around, letting things fall down again and again.

We´ve complaining to him repetively but he´s very unfriendly about it, sometimes just closes the door in front of us etc.

It´s gotten better once we wrote them a letter, at least with the music.

But it´s like I a developed a mini-trauma from all the noise because now, even when I hear a small noise from upstairs when I´m trying to sleep, I get heart pounding and anxiety because I think: " O now, here we go again!" Even though sometimes, he´s quite after that and I´m just lying there "waiting" for the next "sound". It´s insane! But i can´t stop myself.

Because of this I have gotten very sensitive to any kind of noise lately.

Then there are roadworks just outside my building (i live in the city) really early in the morning, sometimes annoying pigeons on my balcony, people playing music on the weekend nights somewhere in the street.....

you get the picture.....

It´s really eating away at me. All I want is peace and quite.

When I move, I´m gonna want to move to the country or at least somewhere a little further out where it´s nice and calm.

I tried wax and silicone earplugs and foam, but I feel all are really uncomfortable...

MysteriousFlyer, Actually I´m trying to stay away from coffein because it makes me more anxious. I used to drink diet coke all day long, but once I stopped I noticed my anxiety go down a lot.
When I have a rough night, sometimes now I drink some delicious coffee in the morning and that helps some.... but I donßt want to go back to drinking coffein all the time during the day

[Open Eyes]

Oh, sorry, PTSD doesn't like noise. What helps me is I have a fan in my room that I turn on high and it makes a fairly loud droning noise and it is good at drowning out back ground noises. I find it soothing for the PTSD too. I put it on every night, even in the winter, I just turn it away from me. I know there are noise boxes you can buy too therapists use them to cover up what they are saying when they work with patients so people in the waiting room can't hear. You could look that up on line.

You deserve to have a vacation, it may be the very thing you need like before.

(((Hugs)))
OE