Hello everyone,
So here's the thing:
I am 25 years old. I think I've had unrefreshing sleep and trouble sleeping since childhood.
When I finally decided to do something about it, I've done every single thing I could.
DAILY, I meditate, do sports, cook own meals (according to SCD diet guidelines- basically only vegetables and meat).
Sleep hasn't improved. Only thing that drives me during day is some energy I get from my routine.
during sleep, I toss and turn a lot. Its not restless legs syndrome, just tossing and turning every 20 minutes for the duration of night. also had depression, this seems to be gone by mindfulness based cognitive therapy. on top of that, I do some concentration exercises so they equal each other out. I'm calm and I do what needs to be done during daylife.
Feeling when I try to sleep when I already had normal hours of sleep (i'm usually sleepy anyway) is like there's something in my head that pevent's sleep. I know this sounds silly, but I can go and fall asleep instantly only after I'm really tired. Anything other is tossing, turning until I sleep and then tossing turning anyway.
May this be that my brain doesn't switch off?
I've talked to doctors about this, and they say tossing and turning isn't sleep disorder symptom. they say it may be psychological. I have 1 meditation session before lunch and 2 concentration sessions after I wake up and before sleep.
I rarely go out of home because of fatigue I feel after walking a lot. and in teenage years I had active life. this exhaustion of mine seems to get stronger and routines I have seem to have less and less effect.
I also dropped interacting with people because all I think about is my fatigue and how to cure it. I believe I also have autism, pure mindfulness based cognitive therapy seems to cure it, I was able to ineract with people but was too emotional with them and couldn't get daily things done, so started to do concentration exercises.
forgot to mention that when I went to sleep at 11PM and got up at 6AM daily for about 4 months, it got worse when I started to sleep in my spare time ( yes, it sounds silly but even not doing anything during day makes me feel tired)
I've listed here all that I know for sure about me, my symptoms. There isn't even decent sleep disorder clinic in post-soviet country of mine so I feel i'll waste my money by going there. I've paid money for quality doctors and their answer before taking money was: we don't know what's happening with you.
would someone Please explain or guide me what's happening with me? May it be some hidden cancer symptoms or anything? Because with so much I do to keep my health up I'm still where I was a year ago- tired, always wanting to sleep person.
Many tnanks