The science of sleep is a program currently on BBC earth in my end of the world.
There's some very interesting and informative information, you should check it out, if you have troubles sleeping or suffering from insomnia.
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Nightmares AKA Night terrors
I've been having nightmares - or night terrors lately. Each and every night I wake up terrified, but here's the thing; I don't know what I was dreaming!
All I know is that I'm frightened out of my mind and wake up from running away from something. But I don't know what!
My friend has a son in the army, who knows a big deal about PTSD.
I've asked for advice, and I got a long email - thank you for taking the time to write such a long explanation...
Quarantine and social anxiety
The Corona virus has made the government close the borders and actually forbidden people to get together and go to work in most places.
I'm not really scared about the virus. I'm more interested in peoples reactions in general.
Living in quarantine is not more different than suffering from social anxiety disorder, SAD.
You don't see many people during the day, often not people at all, so that's not a big difference compared to my daily life.
The...
Fight depression with sunlight
We all know sunlight has a positive effect on us, for some more than others perhaps.
Several of the psychiatrists I've met, have suggested that I started in a solarium. I tried it twice, and I hated it.
Now I'm in a low place, so even though I don't get much done during the day. I don't like to go outside yet, otherwise we live In the country, so the Corona virus is not a huge problem for me on daily basis. Instead I try to recharge by...
Sheltered by the darkness
I discovered something... I start to feel more safe and secure during the dark hours of the day.
That's odd to me.
Let's take a small child. A child who has no scars on their soul, doesn't know harm nor danger, the child has never experienced anything bad. Never the less the child is afraid of the dark. The human instinct takes over: "we can see anything, it MIGHT be dangerous."
I assume we're born this way(?) I don't know, but for experiments...
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