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kleinbl00  ·  2900 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Insomnia bothers

Good on ya. The first step yadda yadda. But here's where it gets tough:

Sleep stuff takes forever. It's often inconclusive. The clinic is going to take on an outsized importance in your life and it will suck down far more time than you think it really should. The important thing is to stick with it until you have a working plan to manage things or until they've determined that they can't help you.

Taking it to the end with the clinic will show you new aspects of your disorder and teach you new coping strategies. It will open new paths of inquiry and show you things about yourself and your body's responses. And even if things are a total bust, then you'll have the knowledge that you put forth all the effort warranted to address your problems, which will serve to define their boundaries.

This is going to suck, and I'm sorry. It's going to be a frustrating experience filled with false starts and cancelled appointments. But on the other side of it, your problems will not only be more "yours" and less "this nebulous thing hanging over you", they'll also be more manageable no matter what.

Gird your loins and see it through. Good luck. I'm pulling for you.