[musicformyears]

Hi all.

Lately, my sleep issue is the point of argument/distress for me between me and my parents. My sleep issues started last year. At first, I had insomia, then I had frequent nightmares over what happened to me in the past.

As I sleep late everyday, I find it hard to be in school on time. What's worse was that if I were to be late, I would be marked as absent even if I'm late and arrived for class and that would affect my grades negatively. And when my parents would be notified, and they would start to nag and would say things like 'My future is doomed.' or 'Uou won't be able keep a job. 'There was once I woke up after 11 a.m. on a Saturday, and my mum went shouting at me at the top of her lungs over my sleep issues. She advised me to exercise everyday. The problem is that my schedule is already so tight to the point when I can't accomplised what I wanted to do within a day. Moreover, I felt that no matter how tired I am during the day, by the time when I was supposed to sleep, I still can't sleep.

My counselor did suggest me to take sleeping pills, but I wasn't and still isn't welcoming the idea of me taking sleeping pills.

Lately, I choose not to sleep because I felt that if I were to sleep, nightmares about my past would haunt me again and I wouldn't let them happened. I'm scared and tired all this nightmares that are happening. Even if I'm really tired, I wouldn't want to sleep.

Is anyone going through something similar? How do I with sleep issues like this?

[MusicMike]

If what happened to you in the past is causing nightmares, then you may have PTSD and you could benefit from counseling. EMDR is one type of therapy for PTSD.

You might have a sleep phase disorder. That's when your body wants to sleep at a different time than usual. With that issue, you would want to go to bed later and get up later than most people, and otherwise you would have a hard time sleeping. There is treatment for sleep phase issues. You might want to research this topic on the internet or research books about it. You could also talk to a doctor who specializes in sleep.

Is there any way you can remove some items from your busy schedule so you can have time to exercise or rest?

[musicformyears]

Originally Posted by mike1127

If what happened to you in the past is causing nightmares, then you may have PTSD and you could benefit from counseling. EMDR is one type of therapy for PTSD.

You might have a sleep phase disorder. That's when your body wants to sleep at a different time than usual. With that issue, you would want to go to bed later and get up later than most people, and otherwise you would have a hard time sleeping. There is treatment for sleep phase issues. You might want to research this topic on the internet or research books about it. You could also talk to a doctor who specializes in sleep.

Is there any way you can remove some items from your busy schedule so you can have time to exercise or rest?

Thanks so much. I will try to act on your advice given and make some to rest or exercise.

[mattjstead]

Also, if you don't want to do the pharmaceutical sleeping pills, try Melatonin (sold at any health food store or even pharmacy in Vitamin isle). If you do take any other medicine I would do a interaction checker (you can find good ones on google) to make sure your okay to take Melatonin.

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