How good is your sleep? (Poll dont skip pls)

[rayyy]

I've noticed a scary connection between sleep and mental health stability (and especially the vulnerability of recreational drug abuse).

I ran an experiment on myself and tried to make my sleep as good as possible by maintaining a strict sleep schedule no matter what (i choose 11pm to 7am), and creating a good environment for it by having a wind down phase of atleast 30 minutes before bed time and having a fan on to create white noise and air flow in the room and after waking up, first thing i do is drink water and take 1 minute to go outside to get some fresh air and sunlight to help my brain feel more woken up and it helps your circadian rhythm immensely.

After about a month of this experiment, i noticed my mental stability increased significantly and my anhedonia was significantly relieved and i could enjoy most of the things that i want again.

And i noticed how severely punishing bad sleep is, after just a few days of breaking my strict sleep schedule, my mental stability goes way down and i find myself seeking easy stimulation from doom scrolling and consuming more snacks etc... and recovering from it takes long.

I wanted to run this poll to see how many people here have a good sleep quality despite feeling depressed.

Good sleep = strict schedule with high quality sleep.

Okay sleep = strict schedule with low quality sleep. (No wind down, noisy uncomfortable environment, using the phone first thing in the morning etc)

Bad sleep = bad schedule with low quality sleep (as i believe bad schedule will always lead to bad quality sleep)

Thanks for reading and taking the time to participate!

 

[HappyPotato69]

I ran an experiment on myself and tried to make my sleep as good as possible by maintaining a strict sleep schedule no matter what (i choose 11pm to 7am), and creating a good environment for it by having a wind down phase of atleast 30 minutes before bed time and having a fan on to create white noise and air flow in the room and after waking up

im curious whatd the wind down phase consist of ? id like to try the same thing tbh this seems good af.

 

[auti]

When I was a kid I used to sleep very well but as I became an adult it got really bad. These days I alternate between over and under sleeping and I'm constantly exhausted. I've slept 11+ hours a night for nearly a week now and still feel horrible. On top of that I also have insomnia and it takes me several hours to fall asleep so at least half of my day if not more is just dedicated to sleep that does nothing to make me feel better. When I do sleep well I feel a lot better. I wish I knew how to get that back.

 

[LastNite]

I stay up till 10 AM, I can't sleep on command. I have to bore myself to death. I used to be able to sleep with music blasting full volume in my ear and the fan on the max setting, but now I can't do that. Also, I hate sleep, I feel like I'm missing out even though there's nothing to miss out on. Ive been getting about 5 hours of sleep this past month. The best sleep I ever had was when I was taking Mirtazapine. Slept in about 20 minutes after taking 1 pill.

Someone told me about a method to sleep better, I tried it and failed. In a couple months I'll probably go back and ask for sleep meds.

 

[jdogg60]

Strangely, the better I sleep, the worse my 'anxiety' is when I wake up.

 

[eggsausagerice]

my insomnia gets worse when my mental health/anxiety gets worse. i oversleep most days. when i'm less depressed, i would end up sleeping and waking up at the same times every day as a side effect, since i only stay up or sleep in if i have nothing to be excited about the next day. one of the reasons i miss school is because it was the only structure i had in my life.

 

[darksouls]

my sleep is bad, mental health is terrible

 

[Amara]

I work the graveyard shift, so I guess I set myself for isolation and really bad sleep