Sounds like your mind is too active. Try meditating in some form or another, relax your mind. Let your head wander and don’t fight it. Start an hour before you sleep rather than grab that drink.
Sounds to me like it is a psychological ‘addiction’ as opposed to actual addiction. Just lay off the booze for a while, change your nightly ritual. The first few days will suck, but then you’ll be sleeping fine without it.
No shakes or anything, promise. Smoking some weed in the meantime might not be a bad idea either.
Eat right and work out- that will help immensely. There’s a school of thought that if you wonder if you’re an alcoholic, you probably are. I dunno, I’m not a mental health professional. You might want to try to get some help (AA, counciling, etc). Alcohol will help you get to sleep but it’s well known that it disrupts sleep patterns; you won’t sleep as soundly.
Hi Eclipse,
The first right thing you have done is recognized there is a problem concerning your drinking of alcohol. The second right thing is determination to set aside that problem. Your best advocate is you at this point and you are the one who has the reigns in your solving your problem. Sometimes though we need help in reconciling problems in our life. If you can place your faith in medical authority, you might want to think in that direction. If that isn’t an option, you may want to confide in a close friend or relative. The last would involve personal resolve wherein ‘pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps’ will be tougher, but net satisfactory results. I wish you well in your endeavor.
Don’t solve the drinking, solve the insomnia, which if you are right, will solve the drinking!
Brilliant.
Of course, that is what everyone was originally doing, but then somehow it turned into solving the drinking. I think MagsJ is right to get us back on track to solve the insomnia, then if the drinking remains a problem, solve the drinking.
I have a question. Are you sure that you weren’t having these imsomnia problems prior to drinking, then got drunk one night and slept well (which may have been entirely circumstancial and not mutually exclusive) and convinced yourself that the drinking is why you slept well?