Why is it so difficult to drag myself off the sofa & go to bed?

[Tessar]

Yeah that's true carnation, no over thinking! With which I am going to bed!!!!
Oh and I got up on time this morning. Yipeeeee.

[Tessar]

I have been more disciplined with the time I get up in the morning. I think that's definitely more important than worrying about the time I go to bed. If I have a day when I am knackered because I was daft & stayed up late, well, perhaps I can use that as motivation to go to bed earlier. So I had best be off to bed now. Work trip tomorrow & the forecast says there cud b snow. Need extra time to get where I am going. Night all.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Yeah, its a useful cognitive process. There is no reason it won't work unless you have an obsessional issue with going to bed later & later, like me, in which case its a bit more problematic.

Why not keep a mood diary? Record your sleep times and how you felt the next morning. Then when you start to see that you crappy starts are always due to going bed too late, perhaps it will sink in CBT style?

Night Tessar.

[Tessar]

ha ha guess wot? i am still finding it hard to get off the sofa when it's bedtime. maybe this is something that's not going to change! oh well. perhaps i need to just accept this is the way i am ..... i have had a few early nights here & there. be nice to change this so perhaps it's time to have another go.... we'll see.

[Annie0904]

I will send you messages and tell you to GET TO BED!!!

[Tessar]

In this regard.... nothing has changed; I still doss on the sofa and think to myself I should be going to bed. He he. Maybe that's just how I am :-)

[yvonne_uk_98]

Hi Tessar,

I went to bed early last night, early for me was 11.30pm, I woke up at 5am this morning, that no good for me. I'll need to go to bed a little later, so that I get up a little later. plus I also go to sleep when I'm tired, I still manage to get up early in the morning.