get enough sleep

Since I haven’t been sleeping well for maybe four months due to anxiety, I’m taking medication for it. It’s great! It motivates me to actually get the full 8 hours of sleep that I know we all need. I’m getting over an ear infection, and I wake up at 3:30 almost every morning getting extremely dizzy and sweaty. It could be from GAD, I don’t know. I know that when I have episodes, I do get anxious, dizzy, and sweaty. This too shall pass. Healing is mine.

Last night I probably slept for about half an hour all together. Maybe it was more… but it certainly didn’t feel like it. I suppose I was stressing about having to finish all of my online astronomy coursework in a matter of 2 days. I became distressed around 2 AM and started sobbing because I thought of a death of a mate (the one-year anniversary of her death was on the 29th). I feel all right today, but I need to sleep or bad things will happen.

And I am soooo tired. I laid on my bed for awhile. I honestly cannot keep my eyes open. I have to drive an hour away today and I better be amped for that.

Well, last night was a better night for sleep, I think. I didn’t go to bed until about half past midnight. I did wake up for a bit in the early morning and I was imagining that my ears were ringing really loud and that I couldn’t hear. I think I was extremely sleepy then. I slept until about half past 9 this morning, which is good for me!

Well, I’m not really doing so well in the sleep department. I don’t go to bed that late, but I have had to get up early for the last few days. I seem to be waking up really early in the morning (like 5) which I guess is a symptom of anxiety. I haven’t been anxious for a few weeks so I don’t know why I’m sleeping poorly. Just about 10 minutes I was on my bed reading a book, and I thought to myself, “I’m just going to put my head down for a bit.” The next thing I knew it was about 45 minutes later. Napping in the middle of the afternoon is not good!