It seems like my mind is always going and thinking through every possible thing. It never really shuts off unless I'm really wrapped up in a task. I usually can't fall asleep because I'm thinking about SO much stuff. Some of it's important; a lot of it is inconsequential.
Does anyone else have this problem? Any ideas to get me to relax?
Last week I realized my insurance covers therapy with a copay, and I wondered if I should just go to go. But now I really know something I could talk about. This shit stresses me out.
I can fall asleep pretty much at the drop of a hat but DH is a lot like you. He has ADHD diagnosed as a kid but he hasn't been on meds since high school. For a lot of reasons he doesn't want to be on meds so he hasn't talked to a doctor but I really wonder if the two are related.
Post by daisyheadmaizie on Feb 4, 2013 19:16:22 GMT -5
I have this problem. I will be in bed, absolutely exhausted, and my brain will be reliving and analyzing every interaction and or decision I've ever made. It is awful. I hate it.
and, by this problem, I mean, my brain never shuts off.
I was like this for yeeeeears. When I took an a/d for about 18 months after DD2 was born, it went away.
When I weaned, it was the first thing to come back. I started taking melatonin, did that for about two weeks, and that helped me get back to falling asleep faster. Now I'm on neither the a/d nor the melatonin and still falling asleep faster.
It's been a few months, though, and I'm noticing that I'm ramping back up at bedtime. Life is a bit stressful right now and I think that's part of it, and I may go back to melatonin for a couple of weeks and see if that makes a difference.
Post by BieberMyBalls on Feb 4, 2013 19:46:40 GMT -5
I don't think it does lol. I have a hell of a time getting to sleep because I get random stupid thoughts in my head, and even when I do fall asleep, I always have one long never ending dream that I remember in the morning. Its been like that every night since I was pregnant with my first.
Never. H and I just had a conversation about this recently. He can shut everything down and have no thoughts. I can't even imagine what that would be like.
I've gotten into flow before where I'm so completely engaged in what I do that I don't even really know what i'm doing, but I'm doing it. I really need to go there now!
Also, yes, I'm pretty sure I have ADD and sometimes generalized anxiety disorder. It seems to be popping up a little bit again.
Mine never shuts off either (see sig pic.) My mind is just going going going until I finally pass out at night.
OMG, your screen name made me think of LSD and then I decided that marijuana might help this.
Haha, it is from the Jefferson Airplane song so that makes perfect sense.
In college I swear the only thing that made me sleep was marijuana. I can't smoke it at all anymore due to anxiety, but it definitely helped back then.
It takes absolutely forever for me to fall asleep. I have to specifically focus on one thing to think of to fall asleep. DH is asleep 3 minutes after his head hits the pillow. I won't lie. I've considered poking him awake out of jealousy.
OMG, your screen name made me think of LSD and then I decided that marijuana might help this.
Haha, it is from the Jefferson Airplane song so that makes perfect sense.
In college I swear the only thing that made me sleep was marijuana. I can't smoke it at all anymore due to anxiety, but it definitely helped back then.
Yup, it's in my head right now. I'm also swaying and wearing tie dye.