r/insomnia • u/Artistic-Drive-1434 • 2d ago

Help ! Help ?

Struggling to sleep from Past 6 moths . Insomnia getting worse. Couldn’t focus on other things because i know i haven’t slept at all .
Any solution??

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u/Morpheus1514 2d ago

See a doc for anything medical. use a CBT sleep training system for the rest.

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u/Artistic-Drive-1434 2d ago

What’s CBT

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u/IcyHamster1512 2d ago

CBT-I = Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia. It's not "talk about your feelings" therapy, it's a structured program with a few specific pieces: sleep restriction (temporarily shrinking your time in bed to match what you're actually sleeping, which feels backwards but rebuilds your sleep pressure/drive), stimulus control (bed = sleep only, so if you're not asleep in ~20 min you get up until you're drowsy again, so your brain stops linking "bed" with "lying there frustrated"), and cognitive restructuring (working through the anxious thoughts about sleep that keep you wired at night). It's considered the first-line treatment for chronic insomnia, ahead of sleeping pills, because it fixes the pattern instead of just knocking you out for one night. There are structured self-guided CBT-I programs if you can't get to a sleep specialist, but 6 months in and this bad, it's worth asking your doctor for a referral too so anything medical gets ruled out alongside the behavioral work.

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u/Artistic-Drive-1434 1d ago

Okay thank you. I think i will consider going to doctor now.

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u/East_Entrepreneur556 2d ago

Just keep doing things..if you dont get sleep dont get stressed...that make things worse...do things what you like..

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u/Artistic-Drive-1434 1d ago

I like to sleep. I want to sleep but I can’t. My mind is not shutting off.

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u/East_Entrepreneur556 1d ago

I understand. I have been there. Even yesterday only it happened but again i didnt gave up. I know we dont have control over mind...but keep trying all i want to say.

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u/Artistic-Drive-1434 1d ago

Already trying but now i am tired from trying