The Worst Way to Wake Up (and What to Do Instead)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Are you waking up feeling groggy and unfocused? It might be sleep inertia! This video explains the science behind this common phenomenon and offers research-backed tips to help you wake up feeling refreshed and alert. Learn how the right alarm sounds, a consistent wake-up routine, and strategic use of light can all make a difference. Say goodbye to brain fog and hello to productive mornings!
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References from the video
McFarlane, Stuart J et al. “Auditory Countermeasures for Sleep Inertia: Exploring the Effect of Melody and Rhythm in an Ecological Context.” Clocks & sleep vol. 2,2 208-224. 29 May. 2020, doi:10.3390/clockssleep2020017
Ogawa, Keiko et al. “Effects of using a snooze alarm on sleep inertia after morning awakening.” Journal of physiological anthropology vol. 41,1 43. 31 Dec. 2022, doi:10.1186/s40101-022-00317-w
Muzet, Alain. "Sleep Inertia." Sleep Medicine Reviews, vol. 4, no. 4, 2000, pp. 355-365. DOI: 10.1053/smrv.2000.0098.
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So thoughtful
Didn’t know UA-camrs could do this, great news
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Thank you so much for this option ❤
That's a cool feature, thank you
The worst way to wake up is the sound of my cat producing a hair ball.
Haha, I wake up to that sound every so often.
And the cat can do this in order to get fed.
On your bed blek!
That’ll get anyone out of bed fast lol
But it works :) Some cats also vomit early in the morning because they haven't eaten in a while. The acid builds up in their stomach, causing irritation. I had a cat which I gave a small snack before going to bed.
A cat is not supposed to vomit up their hair most of the time, so a catfriendly plant (like catgrass or catnip) or more brushing might also help.
On my first day of school, my mum started waking me up by coming into my room and singing Good Morning from singing in the rain. She did this every day until I graduated from high school. I hate that song 😂
Love the tips!❤❤❤
no way 😂 mine did the same thing!
my mom did too omg. only in elementary school tho
ptsd from a song
God, the flashbacks. I never knew it was an actual song til now. Just looked it up and thanks, I hate it. Maybe it’s cuz I’d rather wake up early by myself, rather than the song tho? If I had to be woken it’s a tough call but I think I’d rather be rocked gently cuz then I can reach out and hug her at least
I changed my alarm from the awful iPhone standard to the sound of birds chirping and I have definitely felt better while waking up!
I’ve been trying to convince people that it’s better after I switched but they’re convinced they won’t wake up.
I remember as a kid I ended up being annoyed by the real life birds chirping so I had to change the alarm 😅
Edit: I found my sweet spot with the radio-alarm, I wake up with people chatting and stuff
I don't have an audio alarm at all. My Garmin watch vibrates to wake up. Much better than being thrown out of sleep by noise.
Yes! I love my birdsong wake-up call. :)
@@Aloy406 people like me. I need a loud grating noise to get me out of bed
I need at least 2 hours to get ready for work in the mornings.
me too! sometimes it takes longer :)
Me too, it takes about 3.5 hrs
and i work from home.. imagine jumping from bed to giving justifications for delays and such..
Easy. Sleep for 110 more minutes. Skip morning, drive fast. 👍
@@thephysicslab isn’t that exactly what Dr Tracy does not recommend? I’m not sure if I understood your point
I generally have to feel there's a life-threatening situation in order to wake up immediately but i'll give the gentle birds thing a go
Same haha
If you can update us, that'd be great. I have the same thing and want to try this.
Update!!
UPDATE
update pls
You have such great videos. They’re the right length. They get to the point. They’re well explained. They’re practical. You have a great channel.
Thank you so much!
My sleep inertia lasts from 6:30 to 18:40.
will u marry me
same hahshsha
Okay!!
And then 18:40 onwards is when insomnia kicks in
relatable
I used to wake my son up in the mornings; I would speak gently and greet him with a hug- kind affirmations. Now that he is in middle school, he uses the alarm on his phone. There is a noticeable difference with how he handles the morning. This video is my sign to restart the habit. The world is a terrible place, so I might as well gently speak life into him in the mornings.
EDIT: You guys do realize that I don't intend on doing this forever, right? Children will grow up, please don't make this weird lol.
Please don’t think of the world being a terrible place. Also never ever pass negative ideas about the world to your children (just incase you do)! How people perceive the world is an individual thing but the more positively we view the world, the more positively our children will react to life (at least i hope it works like this)!
i wish i had a parent like you
@@parishka.AWH I WISH YOU DID TOO!!!! Heck even a roomie(/roommate) that would gently wake you up since they get up early enough. Cuz now I wish I could do that for you ahhh. I hope one day you get that kinda experience or some other lovely experiences to make up for it!
@philippamediwake1235 Yes, but children will know that the world isn't always kind, and they won't need someone to tell them for them to know. Sadly.
@@philippamediwake1235, “since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker..” ~C.S. Lewis
The point here is, we have all met & will meet “cruel enemies” regardless of our age…so children should learn about dragons before they meet them & learn about brave knights and heroic courage so they can be the brave knight with heroic courage…it’s not “don’t paint the world as a dark place”, it’s “paint the world as a dark place with lots of lights fighting back against the darkness. Teach them that we (the parents) are battling the darkness on their behalf until they are old enough to pick up a sword themselves…and then teach them that we can all fight together & be havens of safety & comfort to one another…teach them that the world isn’t light, but that it can be lightened.”
Thanks for offering various solutions after explaining the real problems and their causes. We're not just lazy 😊
You're welcome, and that's right. You're not!
Hilarious that this just popped up after i just woke up at 2:46pm lol
8am here 😂 i feel this
Night shift?
6am here
Just woke up from dog barking
is this a sign?🤣
Marc Rebillet's "Wake up" has now been my alarm for about a year: the combination of an awesome song and the panic induced by knowing that all the neighbours are woken up by the screams of a man in the early hours has me running out of bed and in a pretty good mood every morning. (as an extremely deep sleeper, anything calmer has led to much oversleeping)
Yessss!!!! I had that as my alarm for many months!
Haha it's a great tune, but a bit too much for me as I wake up, especially when he starts screaming
Hahahaha, this guy f**ks.
I also like the build up of that song lol
It’s ironic that I’m watching this at 1:25am knowing I’ll wake up late after sleeping tonight
Same😂
Any chance you could do a video on sleep procrastination? I'm in a rut with it!!
Thanks for all your work on this channel!!
I don't in general have good mornings, I'm very slow in clearing the cobwebs out of my brain. I've been this way my entire life (60 plus years) no matter how I wake-up. Now I don't schedule anything before 10am.
This is real!
I am currently not working and I have no routine. I wake up at 1:00 pm-1:30 pm. There have been days that I sleep in as late as 2:00 pm. How do you wake up earlier?
Changing my alarm right now😂
So did I😂😂 even though I am pretty adamant about sleep because of Dr. Matthew Walker
😂 Same!
I did too!! We’ll see how it goes tomorrow…
Me too
That’s why I can’t get up right away. I’ve always told myself I got to roll into my day. Thanks for the science behind this.
I don’t wake up to pleasant melodies. I will sleep clean through it and wonder if the alarm ever went off🤣 I will experiment again when I don’t have anything going on maybe on a weekend or something.
Exactly what I was thinking. Sleep inertia or not I gotta get to work or I’m gonna be sleeping on the street
Same for me. If the music is too pleasant my brain goes "oh, it's such a nice song, let's listen to it more" and here's your missed alarm. And sounds of nature it doesn't even register as an alarm sound.
How about the smell of coffee? that gets me out of bed!
Maybe you just need more sleep?
same. i think its because i used to leave the radio on or listen to music through earphones when i slept, so anything that isnt a harsh alarm noise gets filtered out for me. I'm gonna try it with a louder volume than normal this time around and see if that helps
I have ADHD and weirdly enough the vitamine B12 Ive started taking recently has fixed my not waking up in the morning problem 🤷♀️
Interesting
@@electroquests Yes but now I have kind of the opposite problem (still very happy tho), the fist sun light lowers my sleep quality by a lot and then I wake up too early (also because I go to sleep too late, thx ADHD).
I've started sleeping with one of these masks to block the light, it's pretty mich perfect now :)
P.s. take in mind that I take a fairly high dosage of Vitamine B12 because I'm vegetarian, it's basically the elderly dosage
@@markmuller7962 I understand, I'm not stranger to problems with ADHD and sleep
I’ll try anything at this point. I have all the same issues and use a sleep mask. Thanks.
@@BlackVultureX No problem! I just hope that these issues doesn't get worse with the supplements, be careful
Thankfully I have an android so there's nothing but an endless free peaceful sounds to wake up to lol. I remember my mom used to come in my room and sing "you are my sunshine" every year for my 1st day of school until I graduated high school😊❤ it honestly helped lol
Using a light alarm clock instead of a normal alarm has changed my waking up so much. I haven't used the snooze button since.
I have an Aurora's song for alarm tune. I used to woke up screaming and sitting in bed, because of the alarm. The same happens to me when someone's ( or my cats 😼)wake me up. I feel absolute terror. So Aurora is so soft and her voice is so calm
Which song? I'm thinking of using "Your Blood" but I don't want to eventually hate it 😂
I used A Potion For Love for some time.
i need cool videogame music for an alarm. Like the intro of Zelda OOT.
That's actually a good idea but I couldn't risk hating the intro later 😭
I’ve done this for about a year now. I used to immediately stop my annoying alarm. I set my phone alarm to my playlist now and wake up with my favorite music. 🎶
Sounds like the quickest way to start hating my favorite playlists :'D
Didn’t work for a hard rock, grunge and new metal fan here. Was very amusing though waking up to RATM
I went from an alarm that scared me awake to one that gradually got louder and playing a melodic tune. That was great but I needed more. I found a cheap sunrise clock to try out.
Long story short, I'm on my third sunrise clock. My second was for light quality. Unfortunately that one stopped working in less than a year so I had to replace it. I need to change the sound on my current one. My last one used birdsong and it was fantastic.
I have blinds on my bedroom windows, no curtains, on purpose, and even with that light coming in, the sunrise alarm helps.
I do still hit the snooze but rarely more than once. Significant improvement over hitting it eight or nine times.
Ok, I'm guilty of using the snooze button, HOWEVER, I have it set to 5 min so I don't fall back into deep sleep, just doze. Also, I only allow myself to hit it twice. I set the alarm ten minutes earlier to accommodate for this. This is in conjunction with a sunrise alarm. Yes, I have this down to a science for my body. 5:30am is hard, man.
“Slow Rise” on iPhone. Game-changer.
When you wake up in the morning after you pee, drink, coffee, within five minutes, be filled with glee. Then get upset because you have to go to work.
Doctor is it safe to combine remeron with lexapro? Thanks 😊
Sleep inertia has been a real problem for me for the last few years. My circadian rhythm is based on sunrise. My previous employer allowed me to set my own schedule, so I could arrive at 9 am and leave at 6 (with the bonus of missing rush hour traffic). My current supervisor, a university professor, insists all employees arrive at 8 am so younger employees will show up on time 🤔.
A cup of coffee no longer helps. If I wake up with sleep inertia, 80% of the time I will have a less productive day at work. Changed my alarm to music. Putting my phone out of reach so I can't hit snooze. Thanks for the tips.
Any Swedes here? I'm listening to the Swedish dub (as an English native learning Swedish) and wondering what is up with the voice. It sounds like Swedish spoken by a Dutch person who's not completely accustomed to speaking it. I'm wondering if that's what native Swedes are hearing too, or if it's something else.
I have very bad sleep inertia. It lasts 2 hours, and waking up with an alarm is a joke for me. I am barely conscious, so I turn it off and go to sleep. If I wake up on my own I feel very nearly paralyzed and cannot so much as sit up. I have never tried gentle nature sounds that gradually get louder, however, so I am going to try that tip. I think birds will be good for me; bird chirps just scream morning time in my mind.
This info is great, I have the problem, first I need a coffee and 30 minutes and then I can function , before I am a zombie
Unfortunately, I literally won't wake up unless my alarm is set to the loudest and most annoying alarm there is. Birds chirping, or a cute little melody? 100% will sleep through those.
But I need about 20 horrendously sounding, jarring, & incredibly loud alarms. & the sound has to change every month or two, because I begin to sleep through even the worst of sounds
music or calming noise instead of helping me waking up i get back to sleep i need hard noise ( im hard of hearing 🥺🤷🏻♀️)
I put my phone on the other side of the room so that I can get up out of bed and turn my alarm on.
I've once heard that the alarm song is the them song of the new episode (day) of your life.
She really called me out with the example at the end lol. If asked, I say it takes me 45 minutes to get ready in the morning, but since summer started I've been finding myself late to things I'm not normally late to. I was literally wondering the other day what my problem was (because I'm really not the kind of person to be late), and this video helped me connect that my problem is I've changed my sleep schedule over the summer and I'm not adding time to actually "wake up." I'm going to give it a shot and see if it helps.
"Keep a consistent wake up" Guess I'll be groggy forever. My job switches between early morning and night shifts every two weeks. Wake up at 10AM for one, 4AM for the other ;v;
Do your own research of course, but from what I've heard, it can take about 3 days to get use to a sleep schedule,
So maybe you could use that to your advantage in some way?
I had to stop using an alarm clock years ago since I woke up so disoriented (also very irritated!). Now my body/brain will always wake me up naturally and I am alert and calm and I don't (rarely anyway 😊) oversleep.
Very good. Thank you!
Heavy rain sounds makes me sleepy🥱❤️
But what if you are a night owl and your body physically rejects the idea of waking up before a certain time ?
I need to sleep until 9:30 or 10 to actually be able to handle the world but my job forces me to wake up at 8:15 which basically means that I am forcing my body day after day and this greatly affects my mental and physical health
A non gentle sound waking me up pisses me off for the whole day.
So cool to hear the type of sound thing validated! This was something I realized about myself years ago. The blaring wake up calls were awful and all I wanted was for it to stop. It also raised my heart rate directly after wake up.
I’m always worried about those soothing. Sounds because I think I’ll feel like I’m dreaming and stay asleep lol but I’m gonna try it on a day. I don’t have to be up at a certain time. I’m so glad I found this video!
Dang I already have a melodic alarm.
i was so confused when you were talking in my native language, untill i saw youtube translated it
I’ve never been OK waking up to a loud alarm clock buzz. I’ve always used a low volume radio to wake up and it definitely makes my morning start off better. Thanks for the science behind the information. 😊
Thank you for this
My pleasure!
any conclusion in the research about where "my cat smacked me in the face for her breakfast" falls on the spectrum of good/bad way to wake up?
The efficiency of the plan crash evacuation process (sleepy passengers) is also affected 🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️🙆🏽♂️
At least two hours for me… I feel like my brain has turned into a rock. I can think but it’s painful, I can use the bathroom if needed, but I CANNOT get moving. I’ve had this on and off all my life. My school reports show I missed up to 30 days a term, because I could not wake up. I thought I’d finally found a cause, diagnosed with hypothyroidism, low Vitamin D and iron, but I have been faithfully taking my meds, and about a month ago it started again after a break of a few years. It’s absolutely distressing and devastating. The guilt I feel being unable to do anything worthwhile for at least two hours is sickening. I take stimulants for ADHD, and the first dose doesn’t even touch me. I’ve tried light, music, and moving around makes me so much more distressed because my brain fights me even more. I can’t plan for anything, and should be looking for a job, but there is no way I can even think about that right now. I hope someone comes up with a solution, other than caffeine.
Dr👩⚕️.Marks you change my perspective on life with these informative mental health education videos. I'm 100% sure you are fulfilling your purpose of what God has sent you to do on earth🌏. Isaiah 57:20,21 or 48:22 & Proverbs 4:16,17 ,I'm not to sure of how familiar you are with the Bible(& I don't mean to seem projecting,it's what I've put my faith in since birth).
Hahaha I don't use alarms since a lot, actually, my dog wakes up me with some stomps, but I remember using the "JOHN CEHNA!!!" alarm years ago, I always woke up like " GOD WHAT IT'S HAPPENING"
This was very helpful, I struggle with this to a great degree, it has made my mental health worse.
I found my waking up song 2 years ago and it definitely helps. It is still a big challenge while recovering from depression (2nd year) but I already manage to wake up everyday around 7 am :)
I have bipolar 2 and sleep issues. Thank you so much for all your great info! When I last worked with my psych to add a mood stabilizer, that meds pdf thingy was SUPER helpful! ♥
I usually have a soundless alarm, just vibrations... and i won't lie it only wakes me up because it makes me anxious, i dislike the buzzing sounds from the phone, but i suppose i'll try to change it into a nicer tune instead...WITHOUT VIBRATIONS.
I knew it! that’s why when i was using a waterfall alarm, i was able to get up early verses the times i used songs for my alarm.
Dr. Dr.!!!OMG Dr. You saved me. I've been diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety and every morning I woke up with fast heartbeat and like in a rush! Even had to take ansiolotics for that. But this video saved meeeee. I did everything you said: I changed my alarm with a nature soft sound, with progressive volume, 20 mins before actually get ready and everything disappeared. God bless you so much. I wish I could get a session with you to treat my panick attacks. ❤❤
I’ve changed my phone alarm from a quiet alarm to silent. It still wakes me up dependably. Now to just stop that hitting snooze…..
I never know how I'm going to feel in the morning and I wish I found a pattern...
1. 7-9h sleep: feeling fine, or awful
2. Reading: falling asleep fast or insomnia
3. Listening to soothing things, watching tv series, gaming: no morning inertia or lots of it
4. Browsing social media or online shops: usually sleeping fine (but I don't do that often because it's a waste of time)
5. 4-6h sleep: sometimes waking before the alarm and feeling great, other times sleeping till noon and feeling awful
6. Getting out of bed with no sleep inertia (yay!): feeling fine for 1h and then falling asleep on the spot
7. Exercising: good sleep or bad sleep (time of exercise apparently doesn't matter)
8. Aromatherapy: similarly random results
9. Eating just before sleep: usually I fall asleep fast and feel refreshed, but not always
10. Going for early morning walk in the sun: sometimes getting home and... going to sleep 😅
11. Oh! And soothing alarm doesn't work either;) Sometimes I don't even hear it.
Is there anything else I haven't tried?
Great video, Doctor!
I could recommend 2 songs to wake: Silent Lucidity - Queensryche and Father Figure - George Michael. Just try our and you'll know what I mean.
Sooo I shouldn’t use that clip of TD Jakes screaming “WAKE UP. WAKE UP OUT OF YOUR SLEEP” as my alarm?
Hi @drTraceyMarks! - I'm looking for the study references but can't find them in the video description... could you share them?
So, my dad singing loudly in the morning to wake us up for school wasn't just to mess with us 🤔 😆.
Also, I remember my college roommate complaining about me staying in bed until 9 a.m. because I was "sleeping half the day away." What she didn't get was I purposely scheduled my classes and work for later in the day because I'm not a morning person. However, I'm a light sleeper, so her hitting her snooze every 10-30 minutes between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. daily didn't help.
I really hate AI videos. Distracting, unwatchable. Much prefer a talking person.
Pandora had an option to make it your alarm. Familiar and melodic, it always made staying awake easier cuz I wanted to listen to the songs
Funny, I always get up 75 minutes before going to work. I just noticed that some days I get up out of bed immediatly, and other days it takes me 15minutes to drag myself out of bed.
Also how about those times that I wake up 15minutes before my alarm? That also happens alot.
Still... I need my alarm to be annoying, so I have to move to turn it off. If it's not annoying i'll probably fall asleep to it. Though I have considered of making the Pillarmen music form JoJo's bizarre adventure my alarm. The title of the song is Awaken. ;)
Hey DrTraceyMarks, there's a issue that I have that you probably haven't made a video before. Apparently, I have a strong desire of wanting to experience mental suffering, even though I wish I didn't. I have searched about this online and it said that this is some kind of masochist behaviour or whatever. For example, I used to have undiagnosed POCD, but when I got anxiety from it, I started to enjoy it...? And all of a sudden, it doesn't get me anymore, same with ruminating thoughts, I used to have it but after I started liking it, my thoughts don't ruminate anymore. What is happening?!
Hi Dr. Marks: Can you do a few videos about adult orphans and some tips? 12% of the population now..and expected to grow by leaps and bounds in the future..yet there are very resources, groups, etc. How to empower would help. Ty!
I invested in a gradual nature alarm clock halfway through this video
I have found that holding my breath like I’m constipated briefly and spiking my adrenaline make it nearly instant. Adrenaline spikes are what cause you to wake from REM. It takes the body hours to recover from mid-rem wake-up without adrenaline. that’s why you can wake so fast when scared by a sound or dream. Cold water and caffeine also spike adrenaline. Also if someone else needs me that gets me up fast too. Movement is helpful too. Jumping jacks and pushups.
I have been using "morning classical" playlist from Spotify as my morning alarm for 2 years now and it really is great to be woken up softly.
When i used normal blaring alarm, i will always wake up confused, panicking, and my heartrate would really shot up high, giving me bad mood for the entire day.
It's like ur loved ones waking you up with gentle nudge and whisper instead of banging on your door harshly😂
For me, the best alarm sound currently is Kyne's Peace from Skyrim.
For me, every alarm clock is too harsh. Even the smoothest piano or other sounds and melodies made me jump. On the other hand, bird sounds or other nature sounds made me anxious about missing the alarm entirely (living on the country side, so birds in the morning is quite the usual sound here).
Kyne's Peace is both there soothing AND "unnatural" enough to wake up :)
I need a loud alarm and have a disc that vibrates under my pillow … it’s the only thing that wakes me up 🥺
Yup, and very slow moving in the morning ( I feel like my ADHD has something to do with this?) 🤷🏻♀️
Tracy I’m amazed by the audios, did you use AI? I’m surprised by how the voices sound like you, assuming you don’t speak all those languages.
I used to HATE waking up to the news on our radio clock. It was like shock therapy and my then boyfriend insisted on this and wouldn't let me turn it off. It used to make me SO angry. Thankfully, he's now my ex and i now never have to wake up this way ever - yes!
Mudita Bell (or Harmony) is a great product for various things talked about in this videos (and even naps & whatnot)!! Or so I’ve heard…😅
I offered to wear gauzy robes, and drift through the bedroom singing "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" while scattering rose petals across the bedspread.
I think he didn't take me seriously!
I’ve been having such horrible sleep recently. I haven’t slept at all today (I’m about to right now) because I keep waking up at 6 pm. If my mom didn’t wake me up, I’d probably sleep until 8. I sleep usually at 8 am. I think it’s because of the meds I’m on but idk what to do about it lol.
*Any recommendations for this issue?* - When I’ve tried to use “melodic tones” as alarms in the past, my brain just includes the sounds into whatever I’m dreaming about & therefore I don’t wake up 🫠
Another very informative video,
thank you Dr.
Bernie in Palm Springs.
I have my phone's podcast player go off first, playing audio with a gradually-rising volume, and gradually turning up the screen brightness. 30 minutes later, I have a traditional alarm to ruin my day if the podcast alarm wasn't enough to wake me from deep sleep. And I just set a third alarm on my smart watch: it will go off between the other two, using vibration only and no noise.
I wonder how sleep inertia impact mothers during postpartum.
Mom’s usually wake up crying.
I'm curious about whether hitting snooze causes more inertia or if people with more inertia hit snooze more often.
ADHD also complicated this for me. Routine is impossible with the disorder, and some have proposed that ADHD can be summarized as "sluggish cognitive tempo" because it's so prone to heavy inertia.
I’m a software engineer who works from home. Sometimes I get up exactly when my work starts and I start coding after just a few minutes. If anything, I feel like my thinking is clearer when I do that, but, I must be experiencing grogginess, right? I mean, everyone does, right?
There's just something about the way you talk & explain everything that is very comforting🩷
Switched my alarm from the typical nuclear siren to only vibration, no sound (other than from the vibration). Feels so much better waking up
It sounds like a million birds, chickens, cows, dogs, and frogs here. Starts with a single peep before the crack of dawn. Highly recommend.
I'm now in my late twenties and for the past 10 years I have been battling with OCD and gut health issues like gerd, gastritis, IBS etc. I began to develop these changes when I was 16 or so and from that time onwards they are with me like my shadow.
But before diagnosing this OCD and gut issues , I was on a course of antibiotics (kaypen,pentids )for about 6 years. At that time I had no gut problems or anxiety symptoms as such. But it all began when I was 16 and half and when I was at that point of time I had to go through a series of very high stressful situations.
My doubt is that since antibiotics can sometimes cause gut problems, in my case the antibiotics I previously had taken would have been the cause of my later OCD and gut issues ?
Or the problems I have been struggling with are the results of the stressful events I had gone through ( happened at the same time I discontinued the antibiotics ) ?
This is a very insightful video, thanks! As someone who has had insomnia pretty much my whole life, I've read a lot about sleep, and watched a ton of videos too. I thought I had heard it all, but this video still had something new for me. Thank you for sharing! =)
Believe it or not, I actually do ALL of these tips and still my biggest struggle in life is waking up and staying awake in the morning. I also drink plenty of water, and even take vitamins trying to influence the chemicals in my brain that are involved in sleep. My most drastic effort was multiple alarms across my room with yarn stretched across my room, forming a matrix of obstacles I had to overcome each morning. I've searched endlessly on the internet, yet no matter what I implement, gravity is x100 in the morning, and my mind is sedated throughout the day.
It takes me 45 minutes to actually get out of bed. Gotta give my body time to adjust. If I'm forced awake or get up to fast, naseau and stomach nervousness ensues.
Being self-employed has many drawbacks, but one big advantage definately is, that you don't need to wake up at certain times and be in the same place every god damn day. I never set an alarm anymore and my sleep cycle goes round and round. This weei it may be from 10pm to 6am, next week it may be from 10am to 6pm. I go to sleep when I feel for it and let myself wake up naturally. I like being active at night. Sleeping when you really want to and how long you actually need it is a huge freedom.
I have a big issue with this. I will have to try this change. I'm on 250mg Seroquel which is sort of like waking up drunk.
Soothing alarm sounds make me aggressive in the morning, gradual volume increases are amplifying this. In general any alarm makes me aggressive but the gentler they are the worse it is,m. I believe it's because soothing sounds are supposed to be.. soothing, and not precursors to something horrible, like waking up early. I just feel betrayed. If I don't wake up before the alarm, the day is basically ruined.
My mum wakes me up by yelling... I have anxiety disorder and my already disruptive sleep (because I'm scared of mom getting sick on sleep, slight movement from her and I'm wide awake), my mom yells as if our home is set on fire and usually its when I finally get to sleep deep and nice.... her screams scare the crap out of me and always wake up with a start, throbbing heartbeat with dull ache... rest of the day, I stay agitated and groggy, and these days I get dizzy every time I stand up... My mom doesn't believe in these, but I hope she'll at least be gentler because I once gave her a taste of her own medicine and she got weak