AKA please, don’t tell me “get professional help”. Poor people can’t afford it anyways.

  • Don’t forget to try to get good AND consistent sleep.

    Maintaining a good sleep posture is really important. When you get in bed it’s to sleep, not to look at your phone for a little bit first. Put on some background music, take a melatonin an hour ahead of time etc.

    Also even if you don’t exercise go outside and just exist in the sun. Lack of sunlight is horrible for your mental health.

    • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Oh, great point that I’ll add to as I have battled insomnia all my life. If possible, develop a rigid sleep cycle where you get up at the same time every day and go to bed at the same time every night. Set an alarm and get up to it even if you have the day off. This helps me to a great degree. Once the pattern is set you can drop the alarm on days off because you’ll likely still wake up fairly early out of habit (I usually wake up at the time when the alarm would have been or an hour after and feel quite refreshed doing it this way).