Hi everyone, I am a 23 year old male who has just started to look for counseling, I will be seeing a psychologist in 2 weeks. I probably should have done so earlier because I have a lot of "problems", but I never felt that they were bothering me so much.
About 2 years ago I started to wake up after about 3 to 5 hours of sleep, at first I thought that it might be a biological problem. However, my mother went for a 4 week vacation and slowly, my sleep got better I started sleeping for about 5 to 7 hours until about a week before she came back. I started feeling suicidal a few days before she came back, but I have a very positive attitude towards almost everything and, by using my inner voice to help me consider the bigger picture, I got through that period (which was just last week actually). Since she has returned, my sleep is just terrible, I sleep 2 to 3 hours.
I should probably also mention that I occasionally wake up feeling very anxious, but I calm myself down quickly with my inner voice. Also, when I mentioned my sleeping hours above, that is referring to deep sleep, I continue sleeping after I wake up, but I can tell that I am semi-conscious.
I would like to know how I should make posts on this forum, what I mean by that is, I know that there are just so many things that happened as I was growing up that could be causing my sleeping problems that I don't know if I should put it down all at once, or if I should post in the given categories.
About 2 years ago I started to wake up after about 3 to 5 hours of sleep, at first I thought that it might be a biological problem. However, my mother went for a 4 week vacation and slowly, my sleep got better I started sleeping for about 5 to 7 hours until about a week before she came back. I started feeling suicidal a few days before she came back, but I have a very positive attitude towards almost everything and, by using my inner voice to help me consider the bigger picture, I got through that period (which was just last week actually). Since she has returned, my sleep is just terrible, I sleep 2 to 3 hours.
I should probably also mention that I occasionally wake up feeling very anxious, but I calm myself down quickly with my inner voice. Also, when I mentioned my sleeping hours above, that is referring to deep sleep, I continue sleeping after I wake up, but I can tell that I am semi-conscious.
I would like to know how I should make posts on this forum, what I mean by that is, I know that there are just so many things that happened as I was growing up that could be causing my sleeping problems that I don't know if I should put it down all at once, or if I should post in the given categories.
