Why we don't sleep for days (Mining The Comments #47)

[@federico5414]

Very good video Cristian 👏👏

[@MitchTsugi]

Insomnia is a pattern of ongoing sleep disruption not only caused by fear. Fear is only one of many sleep disruptions that cause insomnia.

[@thesleepcoachschool8192]

This is true using the standard definition! In our channel, we have found it helpful to define insomnia when we use this word as the specific sleep struggle that comes from fear of not sleeping. Just for practical and educational purposes. But again he’s, you’re absolutely right 😊

[@MitchTsugi]

​@@thesleepcoachschool8192 and what exactly gives you the right to decide what specific sleep struggle to use to define it?? It's not helpful at all it just misleads people who use the actual definition of the word rather than the one you give that conveniently aligns with your area of sleep disruption information.

[@CHRIS-k6e]

Hey coach Christian, Although this is all anxiety, I still try to think beyond the string you mention and wonder about the people who continously claim to not sleep during insomnia for a very long time and end when they fall alseep it is only for a few hours of night. Although it sound triggering I still belive there is a sleep state misperception and that they sleep more than this. Thank you

[@drorjs]

Last week has been a good week in my sleep progress. I seem to be able to fall asleep several times during a night. And i finished "set it&forget it" twice.

[@ann-b3n]

I'm very happy for you. what do you think helped you?

[@mestayno]

impossible to recover. I have too many years

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

I can't thank 🙏🏻🙏🏻 you coaches enough for completing reframing the narrative around insomia, that its not the inability to sleep (which is what everyone thinks it is and i thought that and féared it and than had it) because that implies something is broken in the brain as i used to think my body was producing less melatonin (sleep hormone) and that worried me ever since my struggles really started. It is so true and the more i see insomnia as this sleep pause because of lots of féars which bring on many unpleasant sensations, which causes us more féar and thus we're stuck in this loop. Insomnia is so much of a "perceived thréat" than a real tangible one. Pls keep mentioning it all the time so my subconscious really gets the message 😂😂. As well as this perfromance anxíety we get because we wanna see "proof" of sleeping fine and regularly 90% of the nights. Speed bumps are uncomfortable and make us believe we've regressed. I have write so much because this is where i can freely discuss it and feel heard because previously i was so isolated was depressed and this added more to my depression. Thank you and fantastic explanation coach Christian. ❤❤

[@cristianzor_scs]

Thank you for your support I am happy to hear that you found this helpful 😊

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

@@cristianzor_scs no i must thank you enough for providing such valuable content for free here. Rather than gatekeeping and making a bank with this info you're helping all of us out who had lost hope so thank you a million times. This channel is so underrated and I wish I could help some way . I comment a lot for the algorithm too so more people could find these. That's all I can do for now. 😅

[@vanessarezenderomano5778]

hello! I fully understand the teachings and makes so much sense to me, however, I am still in the struggle to sleep. It is like one side of my brain understands and the other also understands but still want to fight, struggle, make sleep happens, and this is why I wm only able to sleep in the past 3 days past 4AM (this is when I TRULY LET GO). In my case, this is not new to me. I had insominia in 2017, recovered naturally after an year, and in 2021 I had it again, mixed with depression and GAD. Then the doctors put me on lexapro. I tried to taper off in 2023 but my insominia got back, and now in nov 2024 i am in a second attemp to taper off and guess what: insomia is back. For me, It is the trauma and fear that I can only sleep with 10 mg of lexapro (currently I am tapering to 5mg) which I KNOW that is not true but not fully know… but I love this channel I believe this is the people to UNDERSTANDS what it is like, and gives me hope

[@vanessarezenderomano5778]

ps: all the tapering is done with medical supervision, not by myself

[@jasbirde]

I do sleep now a days but its not rejuvinating or deep.....is it a milestone towards recovery or someting else..will i able to get deep sleep....though my understanding about sleep is quite good now and i m very less anxious now a days..kindly guide...

[@Sunflowersarepretty]

Hey I'll share smth : I'm sure you'll be able to sleep deeply. I'm starting to get the deep now and my hyperarousal is going away. I have arrived at this after a long time so I'm rooting for you. ❤❤

[@jasbirde]

@@Sunflowersarepretty thanks a lot..

[@Andh21]

Brother you can.... I am example.. Now i can sleep deeply

[@erichoward1304]

You refer to periods of wakefulness as “bad” nights. In labeling it as bad are we not adding fuel to the fire. Could it be also that we are conditioned to think sleep should only occur during the dark hours of the day? Babies and some animals sleep during the lighted and also the darkened part of the day. This conditioning to only think sleep should happen during the dark hours,I believe, can lead to sleep control/effort.

[@cristianzor_scs]

I called it “bad nights” because I was answering the question where it labeled it as bad nights. I also agree with you that labels are not necessarily helpful as it tracks which can put more pressure.