Quote Originally Posted by granty View Post
Excellent advice indeed.

My problems are more anxiety related - I seem to have managed to overcome the depression although it can get you down at times, feeling very anxious.

The hardest thing for me was early morning wakening. Lying at 4am wide awake and stomach churning and adrenaline rushing through the body for no apparent reason.

Lying there trying to get back to sleep until 7 or 8am just drained me for the rest of the day.

As hard as it may be the best advice I can give is to try and get up off that bed and make a cup of tea and sit and watch telly. Easier said than done but I know that when I get up I may feel like crap but within a short time the worst of the anxiety passes.
I think it is important for people who have been there done that to share and keep it positive.

The right words at the right time can bring immense relief.
There is historical evidence for 'segmented sleep' up until the 17th century - see this BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

"........these references describe a first sleep which began about two hours after dusk, followed by waking period of one or two hours and then a second sleep. "It's not just the number of references - it is the way they refer to it, as if it was common knowledge," Ekirch says. During this waking period people were quite active. They often got up, went to the toilet or smoked tobacco and some even visited neighbours. Most people
stayed in bed, read, wrote and often prayed"

It may be that we were never meant to sleep all through the night in one session.....?