can't sleep
as i edge closer to having some semblance of a real job again i'm noticing that my insomnia is returning. not something i'm particularly happy about. i don't think it's so much a factor of working more hours or being more or less preoccupied with what i'm doing. i think when i was working on the book, all i was focused on was the book. and now, i've got so many different projects, there's a fear that something is slipping through the cracks or there's some horrendous mistake in something. sigh. guess the good times are over...
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I have had the exact same experience.. I spent some time this last year having a particularly tough time. But I was spending lots of time with my kids in the park, excersizing, eating healthily, etc. and my sleep was more or less normalize (I've suffered from marginal insomnia for years, decades really).
Then I start a full-time gig, and blammo, 3am wakeup parties... the two year old daughter and a dog whose newly arrived to the UK from CA (jetlagged dog?) haven't helped things.
Still the best advice I ever got from someone on my insomnia was: Sleep at the same time every night. No carbs after 5pm. no coffee after 3pm. No work up to an hour before bed.
Better than Ambian, though I'll admit to both occasionally.
good luck with sleep and the job.