I once slept through an alarm set around 10AM and woke up around 4PM. Remeron did truly delightful things to me and I swear I have just stayed alarm-resistant since. *sigh*
(I thought it may be a sleep cycle thing, but sometimes it just seems so random/absurd, hence the frustration.)
And yeah... I'm a broke grad student with horrible insurance, so I doubt I could afford a sleep study, unfortunately. As for your points:
The biggest problem I had with my psychiatrist's suggestion is that she didn't seem to get that I can't really implement proper sleep hygiene. I've tried to wake up at the same time every morning, but I really can't help it if I sleep through my alarms and thus wake up at wonky times. Same with going bed at the same time every night; sometimes I'm just not tired, sometimes I'm working on homework until stupid hours in the morning. Maybe once I get out of the insanity that is school I'll be able to try this better, but for now it's not easy. Even over this summer I did terribly... Possibly I'm just terrible at implementing this.
I will have to try the getting up after twenty minutes... I'm honestly so used to having to wait at least 15 minutes to an hour to fall asleep that I don't even consider it that strange/problematic. These days school and work have me tired enough to fall asleep quickly, but not always.
I also know that I toss and turn in my sleep, or I assume that's why I wake up with the sheets everywhere. Or sometimes even me everywhere (I fell out of bed once). I may consider those pillows, but I'm not sure I'd adjust to them and often find them uncomfortable when I test them out (that may be OCD though).
I do have low Vit D, actually; I'm taking pills for it. So that could be contributing to the insanity.
Caffeine actually doesn't do much to me in terms of insomnia. I drink mostly tea, and I've never noticed having tea before bed giving me insomnia *shrug* I avoid coffee usually since it makes me very jittery, though not actually energetic.
Everything else seems like something for me to keep in mind. Thanks for the information =)
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(I thought it may be a sleep cycle thing, but sometimes it just seems so random/absurd, hence the frustration.)
And yeah... I'm a broke grad student with horrible insurance, so I doubt I could afford a sleep study, unfortunately. As for your points:
The biggest problem I had with my psychiatrist's suggestion is that she didn't seem to get that I can't really implement proper sleep hygiene. I've tried to wake up at the same time every morning, but I really can't help it if I sleep through my alarms and thus wake up at wonky times. Same with going bed at the same time every night; sometimes I'm just not tired, sometimes I'm working on homework until stupid hours in the morning. Maybe once I get out of the insanity that is school I'll be able to try this better, but for now it's not easy. Even over this summer I did terribly... Possibly I'm just terrible at implementing this.
I will have to try the getting up after twenty minutes... I'm honestly so used to having to wait at least 15 minutes to an hour to fall asleep that I don't even consider it that strange/problematic. These days school and work have me tired enough to fall asleep quickly, but not always.
I also know that I toss and turn in my sleep, or I assume that's why I wake up with the sheets everywhere. Or sometimes even me everywhere (I fell out of bed once). I may consider those pillows, but I'm not sure I'd adjust to them and often find them uncomfortable when I test them out (that may be OCD though).
I do have low Vit D, actually; I'm taking pills for it. So that could be contributing to the insanity.
Caffeine actually doesn't do much to me in terms of insomnia. I drink mostly tea, and I've never noticed having tea before bed giving me insomnia *shrug* I avoid coffee usually since it makes me very jittery, though not actually energetic.
Everything else seems like something for me to keep in mind. Thanks for the information =)