Comments on: Rest Is For Those Without PTSD

By: Beauty

Beauty — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:10:51 +0000

You described to a T what I often go through in trying to get a good night’s sleep.

The only thing I’ve found helpful is to not fight it. Writing does sometimes help, but with me I find that it helps more to write off the subject–rather than writing down my thoughts at the moment, or why I can’t sleep, I’ll work on a poem, or a bit of fiction.

By: Enola

Enola — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:27:34 +0000

Hmm I always thought it was OCD that made me unable to rest. The compulsive need to have everything just right.

Like CK said, I keep a pad of paper and pencil on the nightstand. If something I think I “have” to do pops in my head, I write it down. Then promise to deal with it later.

By: Austin to CK

Austin to CK — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:53:31 +0000

Thank you CK. I use to do something like that a long time ago. I forgot about it.

I wonder if the cat will raid that little ATM and play cat soccer with the paper? Will I wake the next morning and find she’s pulled papers out to make herself a nice little bed, the same as how she does with my ever so soft Kleenex? She won’t solve any of my problems but she may keep them safe under a warm blanket of furry love.

Thanks again for reminding me about that. It did help when I did it.

Austin