Reply To: Possible Sleeping Disorder?

Yeah, its three am and i am still awake. I actually decided to try daniellas suggestion, and combine it with my own twist and bought a can of coca cola from the vending machine to help me stay up so that i can run on adrenaline today (my cousins from NY are coming in and I am probably just hyped up about that).

Once i get more money, i am planning on resuming relaxation therapy.

Also, the issue is that like in this instance, i went to my room at 12 am and then just stayed in bed for three hours and i still couldn’t fall asleep- not even close. My room mate was completely asleep when I entered. Yes, i am very stressed, there is a possibility that none of my plans for next year will work out, and I might find out that the sherut leumi thing wont work out on thursday because i am not close to fluent in Hebrew (although my mom was kind enough to hire me an ulpan tutor because i negotiated a $20 an hour rate with my former Hebrew teacher from public school)

Yesterday, i slept for five hours and i felt very awake after that, but that means i actually need to fall asleep by 2 am every night, but i spent an extra hour laying in bed to make sure i wouldn’t fall back asleep (I woke up to find the cleaning lady vaccuming the floor in my room… that was awkward).

Growing up, i needed like 7-8 hours, but the thing is that my sleep issue got especially bad my senior year when i switched into the bais yaakov because i was stressed about not understanding anything that went on in class, and the school day was so long and the driving in rush hour traffic was so intense, and then I wanted to hang out with my friends on school nights, so i spent half the year sleeping on my best friends couch so that i could go to chagigas and stuff and then even though she was only 15 minutes away from the school, her mother would literally call me out of davening every time i stayed there because i was never awake enough to drive the car until later in the day… the list goes on and on.

Don’t get me wrong, I loved many aspects of being in that bais yaakov, but a lot of it was difficult because i wanted to dress like everyone else, but there were so many expensive things to get at once that clothes were just not the priority any more.