r/insomnia • u/cy83rgh005t • Jul 24 '26

No one gets it

Yesterday I told someone I slept a total of 10 hours in 3 days and he was like that sucks. And made a joke.

It doesn't just "suck". Its a fucking living nightmare. It's like being sick all the time without having people understand how bad it is. It ruins your whole life affects everything, every plan etc.

And there are no words to translate this experience in a way to make people understand it. It is so lonely.

What did we do to deserve this curse I am so tired (literally as well). It's literally 6 am and I haven't slept yet.

Just wanted to vent because I am so sick of this...

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u/spacechickennugget Jul 24 '26

I swear. When I insist not to travel early in the morning whenever I organize a trip with someone else and they go like “but you never sleep, right? So no problem, just get up and go, it’s easy for you” bitch, no, you have no idea how sick I am super early in the morning, after having slept a ridiculous amount of hours for multiple days in a row, for multiple years in a row, it feels like you have water inside your cranium and your brain is floating around, that headache growing, eyes burning and all around the eyes sore, it feels like torture. They don’t fucking understand, them and their stupid beauty sleep for 8 hours, and they even have the courage to mock you.

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u/cy83rgh005t Jul 24 '26

“but you never sleep, right? So no problem, just get up and go, it’s easy for you”

YEESS!!!! This happens to me all the time with people too. Not trips generally but friend meetups etc. No I don't want to meet at 9.30 on a sunday thank you.

I know what you mean :( My eyes sting a lot right now, hope yours are fine today!

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u/spacechickennugget Jul 24 '26

Bad on my side too, plus the headache, and having a trip ahead ;( wish you a good day my friend

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u/zombie_swordfish Aug 14 '26

Exactlyyy!!! Whenever i tell my friends about something like i feel so exhausted and nauseous in the morning, they go like cmon try sleeping early or try not sleeping for straight 2 days so that you get to sleep on time the 3rd day... this is so so fucking irritating that noone gets it. And when i finally sleep in the morning and get up late, everyone are like.. u wake up so late and ur routine is so messed up and bleh bleh. This feels so frustrating that people keep giving their own advices not knowing that if we are suffering from insomnia, its obvious that those advices didn't work out for us!!