One of the difficulties of middle-aged people: Insomnia sometimes makes you feel like you are worse than dead. Do you know how terrible it is?

I have a friend who started suffering from insomnia about eight years ago. It started when her husband's job was transferred. Originally, his husband had spent all the family's savings on finding connections, so he wanted to move his workplace closer to home. But contrary to expectations, the leaders were happy and transferred her husband thousands of miles away from home. This is really tearful, money has been spent, and her husband's workplace is further away. Just like that, my friend couldn't get rid of this problem for a while, and started a long road of insomnia.

Her child was still young at that time. She had to get up very early in the morning to make breakfast for her and send her children to school. She also finished eating and went to work. Now her husband only comes home once every year and a half, and she has to rely on her to support everything in the house. She is tired, money has been spent, and he is still not around. Thinking about it makes her very sad and tired every night. But the more tired she is, the more uncomfortable she feels, and the more she can't sleep. She is troubled by this insomnia problem. Until now. Even though nothing bothers her anymore in life, she still suffers from insomnia habitually.

Do you know how terrible insomnia is?

As long as you have insomnia, you will toss and turn in bed, tossing and turning. If you still have a lot of things to do the next day, and think about how tired you will be the next day if you can't fall asleep again, then it will be even more... I was anxious to fall asleep, but I couldn't even fall asleep.

After turning over a few times, I am covered in sweat. Sometimes I feel that my legs are very uncomfortable, and I don’t know how to put my legs to make it more comfortable. Sometimes I feel that I don’t know what position to use to sleep. It's better. If you lie on the left side, you will feel the sound of your heartbeat making you unable to sleep; if you lie on the right side, you will also hear the sound of the heartbeat, but the sound will be smaller but still uncomfortable and you can't fall asleep; if you sleep on your back, then This way of letting go seems very insecure, unaccustomed, and uncomfortable, and I can't sleep either.

If two people sleep together, it will be even more difficult. They are afraid of frequently turning over and waking up the lover next to them. I can’t bear the thought of her and him having to get up early and busy the next day, but I can’t sleep. The ordeal of not being able to turn over was too painful. Sometimes it feels like life is worse than death!

It would be better if both parties were considerate about sleeping alone, at least only one person would be tortured. Sometimes the pain of not being able to sleep all night is even more tormenting physically and mentally.

Many modern people have sleep problems. The quality of sleep continues to decline and the problem of insomnia becomes increasingly prominent, especially for middle-aged people. Insomnia has become an unspeakable pain.

What we face are life pressures. When we reach middle age, we have seniors and juniors, work, education, mortgages, car loans, support for the elderly, etc.; there are also problems caused by these things in life. Some mood swings, anxiety and depression, irritability, etc.; there are also some middle-aged people suffering from some chronic diseases such as arthritis, etc.

According to the "2019 China Sleep Index Report", the whole of China is 5.04 100 million adults suffer from sleep disorders, of which 126 million suffer from insomnia.

Insomnia is really painful, but what we can do is try to reduce this pain as much as possible. Nowadays, my friend often soaks his feet and drinks a glass of milk before going to bed. He tries not to look at his mobile phone before going to bed, let alone watch some tense and exciting movies and TV shows. The most important thing is to go to bed early and don't go to bed until 12 o'clock in the evening. You can also put a book such as a collection of prose poems on the bed. If you really can't sleep, you can read this kind of book.

Regardless of whether you have insomnia or not, life has to go on, you still have to bear the pain you should bear, and you have to face everything around you with a smile during the day! This is not easy for middle-aged people!