Anyone with insomnia bemused at how people are reacting to having to go to work after watching the England match?

[Whiski]

I know it’s not the norm for many people, but if you suffer with insomnia, going to work and pushing through the day is something we have to do on an almost daily basis and there is very little sympathy from employers.

Watching breakfast TV people are acting OTT at the one day they didn’t get a full nights rest.

Had ashawanga, magnesium and melatonin as per and still up at 3am.

That’s because, for some of us, 3am is apparently our time to get up. I feel your pain. I’ve given up fighting it and now get so much more done than most of my friends!

I’m not normally a race to the bottom type, but…. I REALLY struggled to bite my lip when a dad I chat to on the school run explained to me this morning that “sleep deprivation is actually really hard.”

I was literally pushing a pram with my baby in it. I’ve told him many times of broken nights and 4.20am starts. I just said, yes, I know.

Thankfully baby’s dad knows better than to pull this shit.

You did well to stay calm!

A glimpse in the life (or sleep) of a perimenopausal woman

This did cross my mind as well as I'm usually awake for a few hours at the time the match was on. However, judging by the state of some of my fellow tube passengers, I think their pain might have been more about alcohol consumption than lack of sleep

It depends what people are used to.
I work 13 hour nursing night shifts, and on my first night on, I’ve obviously been up all day prior to working a demanding shift.
My colleagues are the same.
But you do get some people who have very little energy reserve.

Chronic INsomnia here. COmplete nhs Sleepstation course with personalised online sleep coach. Highly recommended they give you advice and techniques tailored to your situation.
Tried long walks, swimming are best to tire oneself out.
Tried temazepam and Zopiclone. Now find Mirtazapine is best for good sleep Gps more willingly to prescribe it for sleep as it is non addictive. No groggy handover feeling next day and you can drive and operate machinery! :)

The thing is though, some of us need lots of sleep to function, but we still don’t get it. A combination of insomnia and a disabled child means I get 4-5 hours sleep a night, every night. I need 8 hours of sleep a night to function adequately. I don’t get it. Which means I live my life in a fog. My sister in law always says to me ‘I don’t know how you do it, I wouldn’t be able to cope’. What does she think my options are? Just lie down and refuse to do my job/care for my kids? Drop down dead?

It did make me laugh, all these grown ups / middle aged people like me, acting like staying up late one night is going to require a day off work. Pretty sure 20 years ago we were all doing that on a regular basis and it was just called having a social life 🤣

It drives me mad when anyone says "you obviously don't need so much sleep"

Yes I do! I just don't get it!

I used to be one of those who could sleep anywhere. I'd be asleep on a plane before it even took off.

Sleep and I are no longer good friends since my wife died last year. On a positive note though, there are only three sleeps until Christmas.

Insomnia or not, any normal adult can cope with losing sleep occasionally. The hysteria was ridiculous

What kind of boring life can people have if they religiously go to bed from 10pm to 7am every single night of their life

In which case they should be able to cope better, as it’s a one off for them (after presumably a decent night’s sleep beforehand, and the anticipation of one after), whereas for us it’s night after night after night, creating a bigger sleep deficit every single night.

We English people like any excuse to moan so of course we will jump at the opportunity to moan about something different.