Step 1. No phone/TV/screens in the bedroom
Step 2. No screens 30 min before going to bed
Step 3. Go to bed at the same time each night
Step 4. Set yourself up to actually get enough sleep
Try this for 6 weeks and then if you seriously still cant sleep discuss with a doctor.
Has no one in this thread never considered the root cause with these:
Anxiety. Americans are an anxious society. And that is with good cause, no social safety net, work 2 jobs to get ahead and a mass shooting every goddamn day.
American here: I don't have any problems sleeping, nor does my wife typically, and I can't say that I know of anyone that takes a sleep supplement every single night.
No caffeine or stimulants after noon. A considerable percentage shouldn't have it after 10 am frankly.
Try this:
1 week of no caffeine and no chocolate
At least 20 minutes of exercise - can be split upper day
Finish eating dinner and snacks by 7pm
No gaming or stimulating entertainment 30-60 minutes before bed.
Manage noise, light and other triggers.
Smart watches or similar are good for watching your sleep quality.
What troubles me is not the fact more and more people are requiring medication to sleep is the normalization of advertising sleep medication/supplements.
It's a serious disorder. Taken to extremes, it can kill. It's not something to be trivially dealt with.
I'm in Europe and I see melatonin gummy bears being advertised on cartoon channels. Straight to kids. Where are the toys commercials? Need to start hooking children to medication as early as possible?
Melatonin is fine from time to time when my sleep schedule is fucked in all directions and I want to regulate.
NyQuil front time to time when I feel a cold coming on.
Nothing wrong with that. If you find that you need them to sleep that's likely not correct. They don't typically work fast enough to put you to sleep. They only ensure your sleep is better if there are extenuating circumstances
What are you supposed to do? The noise and distractions are constant. Besides the only time I can get any household work done is after the kids go to bed.
The trick is to force yourself to go to sleep at a reasonable time every night. Some people have actual problems that this won't solve, but it does wonders for most.
Dawg I haven't been sleeping my whole life. Like I'm only 20 and I can't remember the last time I laid in bed and just fell asleep easily. It's always tossing and turning since I was probably around 9
We are addicted to coffee. But not good coffee. Shitty Starbucks or Peet's coffee. Only a few of us truly live and drink small shop ethically sourced but we know that's for rich folks!
Fuck Europe, they pretend like they have everything figured out while racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia run rampant in basically every country besides, what, one Scandinavian country kind of? Italy literally has a blackface festival ffs.
Capitalism reached it's end point as profiteering and wealth extraction took over. I feel sorry for people that are renting now. It's like lose your job and you're on the street