Sleeping is tough.
When I'm trying to go to sleep, or trying to go back to sleep, I can't push away the bad thoughts. It's getting better by tiny bits every night, and I think I need some closure like getting my stuff from the office. I think about that a lot. Which means that in addition to everything else, I'm not sleeping well and that's not helping. I don't usually post such personal things to my blog, but it's not unprecedented.
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I can't sleep for shit either, and I have a biological advantage over you at the moment. I think it's to be expected.
The only defense I've ever found against stress induced insomnia is exercise. If you are tired enough when your head hits the pillow, sometimes you just drop.
So a bike ride during the day (but something at least a bit hard)? A long walk? Don't know, but it is what does it for me.
Which does nothing to address the emotional end, but I like sleeping :)
This may not be what you want or need to hear, but my sleep patterns were completely messed up for more than a week after my layoff.
On a pre-layoff weekend, I had no problem sleeping into the double digits, and I'd been expecting that this would be one of few things about not working anymore that I'd get some enjoyment out of. No dice. I actually found myself waking up earlier in the morning than I would have needed to had I been working. I believe it was day 8 or 9 before I finally was able to fall asleep and wake up again on my own terms.
It might take you less time, it might take you more. But you will get back in charge of it, and everything else too.
I'm going into the office to clear my office and hand over work tomorrow afternoon, if you wanna be there to do that with another casualty around.
Hope the sleeping improves. I'm sleeping BETTER than before, and a recurring stomach complaint (that Monica swore was stress-related and I called B.S.on her) has not been back since Thursday...
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