04-17-2024, 01:47 PM
I'm coming up on decades of some weird sleep issues. The symptoms and causes are lost in a cloud of well-intentioned suggestions and informative advice. The end of the tale is simple for me. Cope.
Holistic approaches, psychiatric chemistry, new-age quasi-spiritualism, everyone has taken their shot at 'fixing' this issue. You know what? I am becoming of a mind to accept that "it ain't broke." That it's just the way I have to live.
Holistic methods sicken me nearly immediately, psychiatric methods sicken me even worse over time, the new age approach does nothing at all... I found myself just 'going along' with it, despite it being fully unsatisfactory (though I had to completely reject chemistry as a solution... down that path was true madness.)
When I was younger, I couldn't simply 'give in' to my inability to manage "normal" sleep. I had a job, I had kids, I had a wife who needed me functional. I coped. It wasn't exactly pretty.
But I am much older now, and I can feel comfortable saying "I'll sleep when sleep comes," or "I'll awaken when I awaken... deal with it!" I have found that haven gotten to that place in my life where this is not such a bad thing... despite the demands of 'scheduled' life.
Melatonin was not a good thing to me. I urge caution whenever anyone brings it up... not that it might be good for others... I am jealous.
Holistic approaches, psychiatric chemistry, new-age quasi-spiritualism, everyone has taken their shot at 'fixing' this issue. You know what? I am becoming of a mind to accept that "it ain't broke." That it's just the way I have to live.
Holistic methods sicken me nearly immediately, psychiatric methods sicken me even worse over time, the new age approach does nothing at all... I found myself just 'going along' with it, despite it being fully unsatisfactory (though I had to completely reject chemistry as a solution... down that path was true madness.)
When I was younger, I couldn't simply 'give in' to my inability to manage "normal" sleep. I had a job, I had kids, I had a wife who needed me functional. I coped. It wasn't exactly pretty.
But I am much older now, and I can feel comfortable saying "I'll sleep when sleep comes," or "I'll awaken when I awaken... deal with it!" I have found that haven gotten to that place in my life where this is not such a bad thing... despite the demands of 'scheduled' life.
Melatonin was not a good thing to me. I urge caution whenever anyone brings it up... not that it might be good for others... I am jealous.
