Insomnia & Staying Inside

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11 Dec 2011, 2:51 am

Do you get it?

I stay up all night and sleep all day a lot. In order for me to get back onto a good sleep schedule I gotta stay up all day with no sleep. :evil:

That requires me to be inside all day not doing anything super strenuous. Not meaning I can't accomplish anything, but there is a lot I can't do.
I end up spending up a lot of time inside playing video games, drawing, writing, surfing the web, watching TV and making my house a mess.
I do spend time outside riding my bike or hanging out with friends (which I finally got a hold of my old friends since moving back to my old neighbor hood 2 weeks ago! happy about that). So when I'm outside I stay outside all day pretty easily. I'm pretty fit, I just get distracted easily. I'd consider myself a non-functioning internet addict, though. I don't have any online prospects besides my steam achievements and forum friends.

Any way, just kind of ranting... Does anyone else end up spending a lot of time watching TV, on the internet, or playing games? To the point that you stay up all night and have to sleep the next day? How do you remedy this? Do you worker bees hate people like me/us?

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cinbad
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11 Dec 2011, 3:21 am

Wow...you hit the nail on the head for me. I have been doing exactly this for about 3 weeks. I was laid off my job and somehow managed to get into this topsy turvy schedule. I have no idea how to reverse it. I even had to reschedule an interview last week because I couldn't get up and function properly. Now I have to go on Monday and I still can't get it right. I think I have to maybe take a xanax around now to get some sleep for about 4 hours and try to do something tomorrow then sleep at a nnormal time tmorrow night with another xanax. That might do it...as long as I don't take the xanax anymore for another few weeks. I should be ok.

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Stefan10
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11 Dec 2011, 3:27 am

I've been the same since I was very young(3 years old.) When I was 3 I would stay up all night watching television, while my mother and brothers would sleep. Then I would sleep about half the day and wake up in the afternoon. After I moved with my father at four, he forced me to sleep during the night and that started to become my new schedule until I moved back with my mother a year later. The first few years I would sleep normally, but then I started to get into the habit of staying up later and later and sleeping in later and later. After puberty and during my teenage years it has become almost impossible for me to sleep before 12am unless I deprive myself. In the summer, when I didn't have school, I would stay up until 5 or 6am, and wake up anytime from 4 to 7pm. During the school week I tend to go to sleep around 2am, wake up at 6am, go to school all day and when I return I sleep until 12am. The next day I'll stay up to 2am again, then repeat the cycle. On weekends I'll catch up on the fatigue I've accumulated during the week. Often I find I can't sleep unless I'm absolutely exhausted, mostly because of too many thoughts running through my head.

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11 Dec 2011, 3:47 am

I have found since i become a uni student i have done just that. Stay up till like 2 and 3 am n then go to bed. now is sumemr break where i am, I wake up at like 1 or 2pm...
When i was livin in Germany and had bad depression i would stay up till day break and then sleep an entire day and wake up at like 4pm or something....

SilverTung
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11 Dec 2011, 3:47 am

Glad to know there are others. I too have missed important things because of this. Like today I was planning on filling up the tire on my car, but was of course asleep. It's why I'm wide awake typing this. Coffee helps/hurts a lot.

Don't feel bad about missing you interview, though. On thanksgiving I promised my dad's side of the family I'd be there, but instead slept all day because I was playing games all night. I was sleeping in the house while my mom was cooking Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend/fiance for the first time in our grandparents house for the first time since they died. Pretty sh***y, especially considering I ate the leftovers and they were delicious.

And yeah, I find I'm less prone to insomnia in different settings than others. Sometimes there are times when you have no other choice but to sit there and fall asleep even if you're not tired. Which sucks, because as you said Stefan, those thoughts are running through your head. Like stupid s**t, like what you did or didn't do in middle school, or old flings. It's dumb stuff, but some how manages to keep me from needed sleep.

When I was in school I often stayed up till 4am. Sometimes all night. I recall those days were the worst, but I couldn't help it. Even when I tried to fall asleep I'd roll around and look over to the clock saying 6 AM saying "AH f**k!"

Besides having a job (which is not an option for me right now) can anyone suggest ways to sleep at night? I guess mild exercise would be an obvious cure. I'll try that. Looks like I gotta stay up all day... This s**t is ruining my life.

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11 Dec 2011, 9:36 am

Resetting your circadian clock, from, link for this article posted at the end, good luck!

Quote:

Sleep and Circadian Rhythm Disorders

Circadian rhythm disorders are disruptions in a person's circadian rhythm -- a name given to the "internal body clock" that regulates the (approximately) 24-hour cycle of biological processes in animals and plants. The term circadian comes from Latin words that literally mean around the day. There are patterns of brain wave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration, and other biological activities linked to this 24-hour cycle.

The circadian "clock" in humans is located mainly in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which is a group of cells located in the hypothalamus (a portion of the brain). Circadian rhythms are important in determining human sleeping patterns.
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What Causes Circadian Rhythm Disorders?

Circadian rhythm disorders can be caused by many factors, including:

Shift work
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Time zone changes
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Changes in routine

Common Circadian Rhythm Disorders

Jet Lag or Rapid Time Zone Change Syndrome: This syndrome consists of symptoms including excessive sleepiness and a lack of daytime alertness in people who travel across time zones.
Shift Work Sleep Disorder: This sleep disorder affects people who frequently rotate shifts or work at night.
Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS): This is a disorder of sleep timing. People with DSPS tend to fall asleep at very late times and have difficulty waking up in time for work, school, or social engagements.
Advanced Sleep Phase Syndrome: Advanced sleep phase syndrome is a disorder in which the major sleep episode is advanced in relation to the desired clock time. This syndrome results in symptoms of evening sleepiness, an early sleep onset, and waking up earlier than desired.
Non 24-Hour Sleep Wake Disorder: Non 24-hour sleep wake disorder is a condition in which an individual has a normal sleep pattern but lives in a 25-hour day. Throughout time the person's sleep cycle will be affected by inconsistent insomnia that occurs at different times each night. People will sometimes fall asleep at a later time and wake up later, and sometimes fall asleep at an earlier time and wake up earlier.

How Are Circadian Rhythm Disorders Treated?

Circadian rhythm disorders are treated based on the kind of disorder diagnosed. The goal of treatment is to fit a person's sleep pattern into a schedule that can allow them to meet the demands of a desired lifestyle. Therapy usually combines proper sleep hygiene techniques and external stimulus therapy such as bright light therapy or chronotherapy. Chronotherapy is a behavioral technique in which the bedtime is gradually and systematically adjusted until a desired bedtime is achieved. Bright light therapy is designed to reset a persons circadian rhythm to a desired pattern. When combined, these therapies may produce significant results in people with circadian rhythm disorders.

Further Reading:

Shift Work Sleep Disorder-Related Information
Shift Work Sleep Disorder-Topic Overview
Sleep and Your Body Clock-Health Tools
Sleep and Your Body Clock-Topic Overview
The 'Body Clock' Way to Better Health
Daylight-Saving Time: Time to Fall Back ... Into Bed?
Melatonin Supplements May Not Help Sleep
See All Circadian Rhythm Topics

FROM this website:

WebMD.com

SilverTung
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11 Dec 2011, 3:19 pm

Thank you, so much!

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11 Dec 2011, 3:34 pm

I have exactly the same problem.

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11 Dec 2011, 11:39 pm

I've gotten caught up in something and stayed up so late that it would be worse to go to bed for three hours before I had to be up than it would be to just stay up all night. What I do in that situation is just stay up the rest of the night and the next day. I stay busy and do the things I normally do during the day. I drink a lot of caffiene then, but none after 3pm. I'm usually dead tired by 8, and so that's when I go to bed.

If theres no reason for you to be up during the day every day, theres nothing wrong with staying up all night and sleeping all day. A good friend's mother is in her late 60s and she's always been a night person. Now that she's retired she goes to bed about dawn and sleeps until about 5pm. Thats her normal routine. She does her grocery shopping at about 2am at the all night Wal Mart. She has to get up during the day for some things that aren't open then, but otherwise she sees no problem with it.

If it works for you and isn't interfering with your life, go for it.

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