Can't sleep?

Question

I think i've posted this question like 3 times...but its seems to get worse.

I am majorly stressed right now. 2 huge exams...2 papers and a big project all next week.

I've tried everything. Sleeping pills, alcohol...working out before bed.....watching chick flicks. Only think that has worked is alcohol, but i have to get black out drunk....and yeah...thats not a viable option.

I haven't taken sleeping pills in about 2 weeks then popped two and was up for 6 more hours.

Dad prescribed me xanax, but he gave me the lowest strength and i'm a bit worried about taking more than that. (i get addicted to things easily).

By not sleeping...i only plan to get 4 hours a night....and thats what happens. I'll wake up at 9 am from 4 hours of lseep and can probably pull an all nighter the following day. I nomrally can force myself back to bed by 9 am the next day and then i end up sleeping 4 hours only.

hah...the documentaries don't work for me...i'm a bit of a closet case nerd...... Besides prison break and 24...my tv stays on the science or history channel.

Liked that last response....but yeah i don't procrastinate actually. I'm at the point where i'm extremely tired.....but just cna't sleep, so studying would be pointless right now.

Project is for my senior design class (i'm a chem e)......we just turned in our last one on friday....and already put 20 hours into the project and got no where.

Been studying for this exam for the past 2 weeks...a bit each day. Take time to relax a bit....but yeah....i'm not one to get stressed out and can't image getting through this week.

Answer 1

hey i was in the same exact position as u r in now. the reason why u can't fall asleep is because ur anxious about how ur going to do. so study hard during the day and when it comes nighttime, make sure to give yourself like an hour just to fall asleep. sleeping pills work for me, but i would just try something like thinking about nothing. what i mean by this is u can try concentrating on your breathing or something else for a long time. try not to think about anything when you sleep or else you'll want to get up and do something. the objective is to lull yourself to sleep by getting your heart rate very low. watching documentaries on mute also works lol

- eso

Answer 2

That's right - quit procrastinating on all the crap you should have already done or should be taking care of. Many nights I can not sleep until what I know needs to get done is taken care of. I would be anxious and majorly stressed too if I did not have my papers done and the project that is due next week completed, as well as knowing that I have not studied for my exams. How stupid am I being?

If you are going to choose to continue to procrastinate and not do what needs to be done, then you shall expect sleepless nights. Why are you wasting your time on here asking these questions, instead of getting your sh*** done. If all the papers were done, the exams were studied for, and you were not inflicting these stressors upon yourself, you could be having a decent night's sleep with a sense of accomplishment to go with it!

Why is Dad prescribing you Xanax? You are clearly not mentally healthy in some aspects of life, so I would suggest that you lay off the alcohol until you do build yourself a mentally happy life.

Um, yeah, okay so anyway, put a plan together or just jump in and start doing your papers/project/studying etc. For advice on the whole plan/procrastination thing look at my answer from earlier - I think it was in reference to another user who was "determined to study" or something. Most the time I have very positive nice things to type, but I have been awake for almost 50 hours, have drank a bottle of nyquil during this time and used well over 200 mg of amphetamines. It's getting hard to focus and my hands look thinned to me and I see red blotches (though this is actually just a trick of the eyes) when I try to look at them. Oh yeah, and I have to drag myself away from this wonderful entertainment to shower and get ready to work a physically gruelling 12 hour shift. Woohoo!!

=)

Answer 3

I went throw the same thing about 4 years ago . Have a hot bath Read some before you got to bed I some times take a gravol pill that makes you sleep or take a muscle relaxers That makes me sleep. Also hot milk. Good luck

Answer 4

You need to go to the DR and get examined I suffer from insomnia and have since I was 13 it was caused by a medication I used to take on a daily basis and it created long term side affects that i still suffer from if I don't take sleeping pills now I only sleep two to three hours a day if I'm lucky,

Answer 5

YOu mad? alcohol? that would make me restless after a half night waking up and sweating like a pig and wanting the toilet!

go to the gym very hard work before 3 hours of your bed time. Drink a flass of milk, put classical music. Or go to your GP to find out how high your stress levels are. I was going through that once when i was VERY stressed. I lost so much sleep at nights i becamse very ill.

Now i go to the gym, i try to relax like swimming and let my own body be relaxed.

don't eat too much before going to bed.

Answer 6

go to disco and relax. maybe your body do not need sleep. Work at nights. surf the web. do sex. talk on the phone.
leave the exams. They will ruin your health. Just relax and quit the project. Take this words seriously or you will have to leave your body and die.

Answer 7

Count sheep, or do a shot of Jagermeister. Get a girlfriend.

Answer 8

can't sleep, clown will eat me
can't sleep, clown will eat me
can't sleep, clown will eat me