feel really bad about myself for 16 hours
No caffeine, work out, get outside around sundown, take like half a NyQuil dose at 10pm, read in bed.
This is the exact advice I’d give, maybe take a full nyquil dose
Lol, half a dose? More like 2-3 doses. Just watch the acetaminophen levels and you’re good.
I both accept my inevitable fate of exhaustion for tomorrow as well as I take a bunch of melatonin before I go to sleep that night
Is this hypothetical or did you goof?
This is the situation I am in right now. It hasn’t happened for months but I really needed to catch up on sleep, apparently. It used to happen all the time and I would just pull all nighters but that started giving me really bad anxiety when I’d have to go out into the world on no sleep.
Thinking I’ll just take whatever sleep I can get then force myself out of bed in the morning, and try not to lose the plot with the irritating people I have to deal with at college.
Does melatonin work well for you?
Yeah, it works really well for me, but I also have taken it since I was young whenever I needed/wanted it, so it might just work well for me. I’d recommend starting with like a 5mg, give it an hour to work, then if you still don’t feel tired, I’d take another one.
Worst case you’ll still have to deal with the shitty situation with a slight melatonin hangover (I warn you in advance that it can happen, but it usually only happens if you take too much and it can’t metabolize before you wake up. You’re just very sleepy until it’s done)
Best case, you end up going to bed earlier than normal and you feel fine in the morning.
Good luck!
I also struggle with insomnia. Most people who take melatonin don’t understand how it works. They pop it right before bed and expect it to make them tired. It doesn’t induce sleepiness per se. That’s probably more of a placebo effect if people are popping it at bedtime. I’d talk to a doc about a prescription option if you regularly struggle with sleep. Something like Trazadone is pretty safe and not addictive.
For tonight, just accept that tomorrow will be tough. You’ll survive it though.
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Give up on life. Hope for reincarnation so that I can do better the next go-around.
Procast-incarnation, the final form of enlightenment and eternal life.
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Take some Melatonin at 5pm and go to sleep at around 10pm
Go to bed at 11. I don’t really see that as being that hard. Start prepping for sleep an hour ahead of time. Put down the screens and maybe read a book. Take some melatonin.
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Take 2 benadryl at 9pm
Don’t eat. Or eat only a small amount right when you wake up. Also no caffeine or sugary drink and maybe take nyquil
I’d just deal with the lack of sleep and be tired the next day.
Sweet, just enough time to get hammered before bed.
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So a typical Sunday, then?
Get 4 hours of sleep and call it normal.
