heavyweightworrier
14-04-18, 01:21
So I don’t know about y’all but a large portion of my health related worries come at night. I then stay up for hours and hours in fear of dying in my sleep and no one noticing or showing up to help (I live alone).
Usually when I finally do go to sleep, even then I’ll set up some alarms and sleep in shifts, only half an hour up to two hours at a time, so I can wake up and check up on if my symptoms have gotten worse. I never have any trouble falling back to sleep, to be honest I barely even remember turning the alarms off in the morning, but it’s really messing up my sleep schedule (something I already massively struggle with even without HA,) regardless as I stay up sometimes for as long as 6am. It’s currently 3am as I’m writing this.
Does anyone have any tips on how to prevent this? I understand the alarms and the constant checking are a massive security blanket, and not the healthy kind, but I don’t know how to let go of these destructive habits :/ any advice would be appreciated and I believe could potentially help me majorly in the long run.
Usually when I finally do go to sleep, even then I’ll set up some alarms and sleep in shifts, only half an hour up to two hours at a time, so I can wake up and check up on if my symptoms have gotten worse. I never have any trouble falling back to sleep, to be honest I barely even remember turning the alarms off in the morning, but it’s really messing up my sleep schedule (something I already massively struggle with even without HA,) regardless as I stay up sometimes for as long as 6am. It’s currently 3am as I’m writing this.
Does anyone have any tips on how to prevent this? I understand the alarms and the constant checking are a massive security blanket, and not the healthy kind, but I don’t know how to let go of these destructive habits :/ any advice would be appreciated and I believe could potentially help me majorly in the long run.