When you are so stressed you cant sleep what do you do?

Whenever I can't sleep I drink some sleepy time tea and it helps you relax and sleep better too. I have always drink this one hour before going to bed.

Well it would depend on what time it is. If its a couple of hours before I get up then I just get and stay up.LOL If its the middle of the night I sometimes get back on the computer and that always makes me sleepy.

I will get up and have a drink of milk. Milk usually will help me to fall asleep. But, I will wake up within a couple of hours of drinking the milk. Any fluid runs right through me.

hot bathnd herbal tea and I agree with the pray yourself to sleep if you have to...But with me , I fall asleep with no problems usualy and my hubby could sleep through anything, anytime...lol

You could take some drink before sleeping. It really helps in putting you to sleep as well as in relieving stress from the muscles. But you must take in moderate quantity and not too much. You could also try tablets meant for body pain. Also, you could take shower with hot water. It really helps.

I try doing puzzles. Seek and find or crosswords are good ways to occupy my mind and when I can't think of any more answers, my brain is tired enough to go right to sleep.

I do that sometimes . I usally either pray or read for awhile reading latley had helped me to sleep better at night and praying also helps.

get up and come play pogo

I watch tv or go to the computer until I can hardly keep my eyes open, then when I'm real tired I'll go to bed and it will take seconds for me to fall asleep, it helps to have slow music on the computer when you want to get sleepy, I know I get real sleepy, once I actually nearly fell asleep in front of the computer, and another time I was talking to someone with the microphone on the computer and they went to get something, next thing I knew I was waking up and they were gone lol.

Hi dawnrm69! I will pray first because that always helps but sometimes if I'm having longer than usual I will go ahead and get back up and get on the computer for a little while till I feel my eyes crossing then I lay back down. SheliaLee

That happens to me a lot. I usually try to read to help me fall asleep, but when I'm really stressed I can't even do that. I take excedrin pm, and that knocks me out after awhile. It makes me kind of groggy the next day though. I've also tried valerian root, in capsule form. It's a little milder than excedrin, but it does help. If the weather is really nice, I like to take a little walk around outside and look at the stars, and then I feel a little relaxed and might be able to fall asleep.

Several years ago in the middle of heat-wave I did not sleep for almost a week. I got some sleeping pills, but they made me feel terrible each morning, as it was not a natural sleep, so I stopped taking them and eventually I did fall asleep. It has happened once or twice since then, but I now practice meditation and have often got out of bed, gone into my home-office and meditated, clearing the mind of all thoughts whilst concentrating on the breathing in and out again. This gives about 80% of the value or real sleep and in many Zen temples in the East they practice week-long periods of meditation where they don't sleep for many nights. The most important thing about going to sleep at night, is not to try to get to sleep, because you can keep yourself awake worrying about it. If it is so bad you may want to get some sleeping pills, but if like me, they make the situation worse, try focusing your mind on the in-breaths and out-breaths and block out other thoughts. Imagine the breaths going down into the abdomen allowing to expand and out again, allowing it to contract. Wilst doing this, you may find that you fall asleep without even noticing.. :-)