

If you are experiencing suicide ideation resulting from self-loathing call Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration at 1-800-662-HELP (4357). Some studies have even shown it to be a prominent predictor of suicidal ideation. Self-hate can be complicated and difficult to navigate on your own. When it’s extreme, a lack of self-worth can be a type of pain few people understand. Catch-22, created by you.It’s normal to hear a negative voice in your head every once in a while. You’ll be worrying during the day whether you’ll even sleep at night and nearer to sleep time you get, the more anxious you’ll become and the more your body won’t be able to relax, so the more impossible it is to sleep. After a while you will be tired and your cognitive functioning will be impaired. The next step from there is usually some type of insomnia, because you’ve worked yourself up into such anxiety about sleeping. And as you can tell, that irrational behavior will confirm that you haven’t slept as much as you demand because you woke yourself up! Soon you’ll be going to sleep, only to wake yourself so you can check that clock to see if you’ve been sleeping. Soon enough, sleeping will start to be a problem because you’ll be worrying about it before you go to bed, and that worry will interfere with your sleep pattern. Sleep problems can start if, instead of embracing your pattern and learning to live with it, you start to create your own anxiety around not getting enough sleep. Trouble is, if you’re the type of person who needs four, but you think you should have eight, that is where your problems will start. You might be somebody like me, who likes around eight hours a night, or you might need fewer, such as four. Really? How many times did you hear this, yet still stayed up late reading about dinosaurs, and made it through school the next day?Įven scientists don’t know how much sleep people need.Įach person’s sleep patterns and needs are different. You need to get your sleep or you won’t be able to do well.” Thinking and behaving like this can be quite common, and its roots can usually be found in childhood messages such as “You’ve got school tomorrow.

Sometimes after not sleeping well, people even play the ‘poor me card.’ They tell work colleagues how little sleep they’ve had, and how they won’t be able to do so-and-so job, or how they might need to go home early because of exhaustion. If you’re the type of person who uses that snippet of destructive thinking, then you’ll start sabotaging yourself.
