I am having issues with anxiety and lack of sleep at the moment. Today, after failing to sleep last night, I tried having a busy day and refusing sleep until this afternoon/night and felt too exhausted so nodded off at 6pm. I slept until about 9.30 and now feel mostly wide awake.
I don’t want to sit around my apartment stressing and thinking about it. That’d drive me mad. Does anyone know any 24/7 activities that are open–could be a 24/7 bowling alley, a swimming pool that’s open 24/7 … anything really. I just wanna get out and do something so im not stuck at home getting stressed over the fact that after an exhausting long day where I felt absolutely knackered by six, I managed to sleep all of two hours …
Thanks for the suggestions. I need something as it is really getting me down. I mean, when I fell asleep today at about 6 am, and then woke up and checked my clock to see it was only 9.30. I nearly cried. I felt for sure I had slept hours.
The dread of spending anothe rnight getting stressed in my apartment with nothing to do is the worse. I wish the swimming pool was open. I find that relaxing–daft annoying rules aside. But I think cycling is the best choice for now.
Let me get this straight. You cannot sleep well at night. So to prevent feeling anxiety about not sleeping well at night, you want to go out and do various activities, at night?
It’s actually a good technique. Stressing over not being able to sleep, bizarrely, is one of the reasons you can’t sleep.
It’s better to get up and do something until you feel sleepy. Yes, your sleep pattern will be messed up, but you will at least sleep.
I would suggest to the OP that simply reading works quite well. Not on a cellphone. An actual paper book. Something you’re interested in, not something boring. It doesn’t involve going outside, but it’s pretty effective.