Stop my brain I wanna get off!!!

[Sorka]

Ugh.. here I am at 4 in the morning on my fourth day of no sleep.. I have always had trouble getting to sleep it takes at least an hour for me to settle down at least.
My brain will not quit! Then when something wakes me up yup another hour at least till I get settled again.

:Last night I took some nyquil at 1 am.. but then at 2 am the baby was up throwing up, then at 4 am the three year old was up then at 6 the baby fell out of the guest bed where he was with Dad.. so I was just this groggy mess of a zombie wandering around dealing with stuff..
Then I had to have DH stay home after lunch cause I just felt like someone had drained all the blood out of my body!!

How am I supposed to stop my brain so I can get some sleep..
Things are chaotic enough around here!! AHHHHH
D

[sweety]

:PI'd like to stop my brain too only Its when I'm awake that I'm having the problems. Still haven't taken down Xmas stuff. Ds is crying over addition and subtraction of fractions, I'm trying to transfer to another job in the system where I work (my blood pressure and my nerves are shot, but thats another story) and itsGIRL SCOUT COOKIE TIME. Oh I forgot about the sunday school party for tomorrow night and the place I have to be all day sunday for work. Do you know anyone that can come to Dallas and take down my tree and teach my daughter fractions at the same time? It's supposed to be in the 60's this weekend here.

[rosyred45]

Denise :-XI feel that way too sometimes, actually yesterday, today, and probably the rest of my life, but I just try to deal with it. Sorry not a help there.

Just lock yourself in your room and don't let anyone in for about 3 hours.....of course make sure that hubby is home to field all other activities.
AND STOP THINKING.

I have a hard time with that one too, BUT it does help. OK, if I had to think about everything?
Our house is for sale

SACC needs juice and I have no money to get it

We have been throughing around the idea to open the merchanise store into a hunting/fishing/craft supply store

I need to be at the Club in 2 hours

I need to get a shower before that

Drop the kids off for Sunday school.

Hey wait, this defeats that whole purpose of not thinking about it. So I am done now, need to get that shower. Oh and the realtor was supposed to be here yesterday at 2. At 2:45 the landlord called and said she hasn't heard from the people and has tried to get a hold of them, so "don't put a hold on anything else"

I actually have a clean house :DNow I get to play

[AnneM]

Denise !! You and Christy/Camismom are going through the same thing with insomnia!!

I used to have a boss who suffered from insomnia and what he was told was that when your thoughts are racing in the middle of the night get up and WRITE THEM DOWN ... once these thoughts/worries/concerns are written down rather than going around inside your head (apparently!) you have "externlised" them (i.e. captured them OUTSIDE of your head) and this apparently in turn helps you to calm down and "empty your brain of these thoughts" ...

I can't tell you personally that this works but it might be worth a try!! ...

[Sorka]

It's not really worries.. its just totally random thoughts!! They come totally our of left feild.. some times it is ideas for knitting or something like that but most of the time it's just static.. it's like the Strattera commercial.. heheheh

but it's only when I lay down that it is really noticable.. what with four kids a cat and a dog running around I have enough stimulation fro my brain all day so It doesn't need to make up it's own!!

Then at night when it is all quiet... bang.. boring.. need something to do up here!!!

Well at least the last two nights have been better.. the usual clockwork of a toddler running into our bed at 4 am.. and Jaxom yelling ouch ouch at the top of his lungs for a second night in a row.. other than that it is quiet and that helps!!

Thanks~~

Denise

[rosyred45]

Quiet is usually what gets to me. But I don't have a problem falling asleep to begin with, but for the past week I have been basically on auto pilot

Now that the house is clean, and I mean just the basics need to be done, I'm bored and am trying to think of some neat projects to do.

The olly problem there is that when I get it out, I think of something else and get that out, and it turns back into chaos

Oh well, got a hat to finish crocheting, I told one of the trap kids I'd finish it this week--I started it a month ago

[george2]

This happened to me all of the time until I had taken my ADHD medication, Adderall, for a while. I found if I take half of my dose in the morning and half at lunch I am easily ready to go to sleep at night. Another help is to not drink coffee after five or six in the afternoon. I have talked to many people about the seeing into the thought processes. It seems to be common to people with ADHD. It was so bad before my meds that I could play a Nintendo game with players that shoot fireballs at each other before I went back after lunch and I could see the fireballs flying through the air back at work after lunch. This doesn't happen any more.

[DANIEL]

i had / have the same problem i lay down to go to sleep and my brain says wooohooo!!! lets start planning out the next few days of my life and lets do a little rewrite of the past while were at it, and then i go into interractions with people and co-workers what they will do and what i will do for the next day or two and run simulations in my head, then when i get mad at myself for not sleeping i start getting upset with past experiences in my life, like when my parents beat me or the bullies at school tormented me, or just situations i would have liked to turn out differntly and i relive them in my head and this time i can handle the situation because i am adult, and so on. then there are those nights when i am working on something like computer or toy for the kids or just a project and i spend the entire night sleeping in 10-15 minute intervals wakeing up constantly to check my progress or to make changes to project. my night consists of sleeping really good for 2 hours, dosent matter if i take sleeping pills have a few beers or anything i sleep two hours and then i am up. and usually end up getting back to sleep an hour or 30 minutes before i have to wake up, then the alarm goes off and i cant get out of bed because i am so tired and could sleep for several more hours. so i know what ya mean, the only thing that helped me was ritalin the best nights sleep i had in years was the day i started taking ritalin, now that i am off it, back to same old same old. the only good thing is my daughter has about the same sleep cycle as i do so at least i dont have to spend the time alone, we usually watch tv or play with toys make snacks and what not, fortunately she is only 3 so she dont have anything to do during the day like school, but very soon she will and we will have to do something, but for now its ok. another thing i do to get back to sleep is read something i have read several times before, i find i fall asleep pretty easy.

[sweety]

:)I've had problems sleeping too. Yoga helps me. Get down on the floor and do some slow stretching exercises. Find a book at the library or bookstore that shows simple yoga exercises. It helps my brain unwind.

I have more problems while I'm awake right now. I seem to be distracted very easily. A coworker gave me a very expensive book on Birds because we talk about birds frequently. It said on my kitchen counter for a while then I thought "I should put this in a safe place." well something interfered in my thought process and I put the book up so good that i have lost it. I imagine that I will find it eventually but I could kick myself for losing it.

[milesofsmiles]

My sleeplessness comes and goes (thankfully). When my mind is in high gear, I wake up at 1:30, and think about things I cannot fix for about 2 hours. The other night I got up and decorated easter eggs, then hid them in the yard. At least that was productive.

Miles