I think I'm FINALLY starting to do okay with sleep. When I first quit I couldn't sleep—difficulty falling asleep, tossing, turning, agitated. Then when I woke, I'd feel WIDE awake, ready to get up, only to find I'd just fallen asleep 20 minutes before. This would repeat and go on all night, and then finally around 3:30 I'd be up for good, unable to get any more sleep. So I've been lucky if I could get more than 4 hours of sleep a night. I was upset that the first line of defense to help my sleep was to cut out coffee in the afternoon and evenings. I'm a total coffee junkie, so this was not fun, but not difficult to simply replace with water, which of course is much better for me. But that still didn't help. Yet with all this, I figured this is part of getting well—so I've dealt with it, even though I've been chronically red-eyed and hung-over feeling at work for weeks now. For the most part at work, I've just been ducking out, trying to hide in a corner and focus on my work, counting down the hours until I could go home. (hmm… is that much different than normal? Heh. Not really!)
Anyway, it's nearly midnight, and I'm off to bed-- hoping I can get maybe 5-6 hours sleep.
