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It always hits me around 2 a.m. Any tips on how to go back to sleep
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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 409071" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>This doesn't work too well at the early stages of this when situational depression is abound on topof all the other emotions, but I am now working on trying to think of something I'd really enjoy to spend a little time doing, reading, eating, whatever, especially on evenings when I can sleep late the next morning- if I wake up due to stress my plan is to go ahead and get up and spend a little time doing my enjoyable thing. It's a trial run to see if it helps replace all that with something more relaxing and uplifting. Another thing I try to remind myself of is that as bad as it is now, if I'd let it go on further I know it would only have gotten worse for my difficult child and this would be even harder for me to pick up from that point than it is now. I guess I'm sort of looking at it like the point where I draw the line in the sand is where I am defining hitting bottom for the both of us and refusing for either of us to go any deeper- at least myself and my contribution to difficult child's ability to self-destruct. If he does it on his own, in spite of my efforts, I have no control over that but I can't let myself go any deeper emotionally over it- guilt, feeling I've enabled him, feeling like I've poured everything I have into a bottomless pit, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 409071, member: 3699"] This doesn't work too well at the early stages of this when situational depression is abound on topof all the other emotions, but I am now working on trying to think of something I'd really enjoy to spend a little time doing, reading, eating, whatever, especially on evenings when I can sleep late the next morning- if I wake up due to stress my plan is to go ahead and get up and spend a little time doing my enjoyable thing. It's a trial run to see if it helps replace all that with something more relaxing and uplifting. Another thing I try to remind myself of is that as bad as it is now, if I'd let it go on further I know it would only have gotten worse for my difficult child and this would be even harder for me to pick up from that point than it is now. I guess I'm sort of looking at it like the point where I draw the line in the sand is where I am defining hitting bottom for the both of us and refusing for either of us to go any deeper- at least myself and my contribution to difficult child's ability to self-destruct. If he does it on his own, in spite of my efforts, I have no control over that but I can't let myself go any deeper emotionally over it- guilt, feeling I've enabled him, feeling like I've poured everything I have into a bottomless pit, etc. [/QUOTE]
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