Coffee For SAD Affected
I must say that Spring is my favorite season and I love to see how the leaves of the trees sprout and grow thick eventually. I even more like it when I see the bright day through my window when I get up in the morning. The feeling of tiredness and craving for longer sleep are not getting in the way now than in the winter. I go to work at 7am or 8am and it’s not dark anymore. It only means the day is getting longer. I love it!
However, there’s a reverse of the situation because I noticed that I’ve been feeling drowsy and sluggish when I come home that I otherwise don’t feel in the winter. There were times that I went to bed right when I came home from work because my eyes were heavy to bear and would fall off any moment. And it was only around 5:30pm-6:00pm! I tried to get rid of it and thought of starting with my belly dancing afternoon exercise again but my body seemed to be lacking in energy to even insert the DVD into the player.
Incidentally, the local newspaper had featured a topic about depression and sleep in relation to springtime. Little did I know that the sun has something to do with my drowsiness until I’d read the article. I discovered that I was not alone in this situation. Many even get depressed of sunlight and resort to some form of therapy. I, on the other hand, don’t fall into this category – yet. But hubby said that if ever I’d feel depressed I should talk to him so that we both would be depressed, haha! When people fall into depression on early spring, it’s the effect of SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder. To overcome my sleepiness, I followed the trick of someone in the newspaper to drink coffee and do physical activity.
caffe latté twice a day?
I don’t like the brewed coffee here because it’s too strong for me. I go for instant coffee instead, but there are no cafés serving instant coffee. I decided to take caffe-latté the other day for a kick-off try to prevent SAD. I had it twice that day. But the result – I couldn’t sleep that night. Ack! It was the worst sleeping problem I ever had. I ended up having four hours of sleep, which is not good at all.
Make It A (10 o’ clock) Habit
sleeping sound
How can I make my sleeping time a habit when I know I am a confirmed night person. I’ve been trying to change my sleeping schedule but I always fail. Even when I plan to sleep on a centain time I would always find something to do before that and I would end up sleeping late again. It’s a struggle when I have to work the next day and feeling tired at work is the worst part of the problem. I wrote before that I didn’t have the symptoms of insomnia and I still believe I don’t have this kind of sleeping problem. It’s just that I am more active doing something at nights. I remember once I ironed clothes at about 11pm because I wasn’t sleepy to go to bed then. Even when I read a book in bed just to get myself sleepy, I end up even more later before the letters in the book turn illegible.
I found this article that describes a person like me as a “night owl” – a person having a problem sleeping at night and feeling tired and sleepy during the day. Sooo me. The article suggests treatments for this problem and I found some of them interesting and maybe would help me in the process of making my 10 o’ clock habit:
- Getting up at the same time every day no matter what time you go to sleep. On the weekends (or on days when you don’t have to get up) don’t let yourself sleep more than 1 hour longer than you do when you have to get up for work or school.
- Light therapy. In this case, light therapy means exposing yourself to bright light as soon as you wake up. You can use sunlight or a bright (10,000 lux) light box for 30 to 45 minutes each day.
I had done the first one on several occasions but I seemed to have not completely aware that it would help me get to sleep earlier at nights. But I must admit I don’t like lights early in the morning. I often nagged at hubby to turn off the lights when I’m still in bed and he’s dressing up for work. How can I survive this…
Thought I Had Insomnia
It’s not the midnight sun or the moonlight shadow that keeps me awake until the wee hours of the morning. I have noticed that I’m becoming a night person more than ever. It’s worse when I’m working cos I have to get up early and this makes me tired and drowsy the whole day. I always have books on my bedside table so that when I can’t sleep I just grab one and read until I feel sleepy. But it takes hours before my senses get tired and retire to sleep. I always thought I had insomnia, but when I checked the symptoms, my sleeping problem could not be considered as insomnia.
Here are some indications that one is suffering from insomnia:
Difficulty falling asleep, which can mean lying in bed for up to an hour or more, perhaps tossing and turning, wishing for sleep to begin. Yes, I do suffer from this.
Awakening during sleep and having trouble getting back to sleep. I must admit that I could fall into deep slumber the moment I close my eyes to sleep. Even when I wake up to go to the toilet I could get back to sleep easily.
Awakening too early in the morning. This is hard for me to do. I have difficulty falling asleep, but I have difficulty getting up early in the morning, too. Even when I fall asleep after 12 midnight, I still manage to have enough sleep to make me feel good the next day.
Feeling unrefreshed upon awakening. I do feel this when I need to and forced to get up early after long hours of being awake the night before.
I always believe that having enough sleep is the key to working productively in the day. Although I don’t have the symptoms above, I feel that I am at risk to having insomnia. And the only solution I can possibly think of is to lock myself in the bedroom early when I need to wake up early the next morning. If you wonder what time I did write this post, it’s 3am and am still not sleepy.
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