Any other early birds here? I wake up early

DX'd - Other
1

Sometimes I wake up before my 6am alarm from nightmares, like an 45 minutes ago, and sometimes I am okay and hit snooze for like half an hour. I have been taking my meds earlier and going to bed earlier and then working out an hour after breakfast and well now I am a morning person.

The nightmares suck though. I have to have a coffee and cig to clear my head and snap back into reality. I’ve considered prazosin for nightmares but they’re more like nightmares I sleep through for the most part, but sometimes they wake me up all messed up like today.

Anyone else go to bed at like 9 and wake up at 5 or 6 maybe 4? I go to bed by 9 and sleep at 10 and usually wake up feeling rested and relatively well at 6am, then I do my coffee and cig and meds and breakfast then go to run at 8. I used to go to sleep at like 2 or 12 and wake up at 8 or 9 with less comfortable results- withdrawals from my meds. I miss out on some social things but they’re usually centered around drinking which I don’t need, so I prefer eating and exercising with friends instead of going out to bars and such like I used to. It’s good because in graduate school you gotta be at your desk feeling well at 9, which I usually am.

I guess it’s a step in maturity. It really doesn’t fit with most others my age in college but I am practically walking out of college since I graduate in May.

1 Like
2

Indeed it is.

I also go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 6am.

1 Like
3

I’ve been on clozapine for 2 days now, and I’m falling asleep ~9pm, and waking up at 7. Usually I’m an 11-8 guy, but these days, I’m getting better quality sleep.

2 Likes
4

I have seen people coughing badly because of smoking cigarettes in the early morning. It is not good for you to smoke cigarettes in the morning. The Lung Detox capsules is to be taken in the morning only. You would know better than me, that the lungs are at their best when we wake up?

5

Sorry, I just saw enough smoker who coughed badly in the morning.

6

I am doing my best to keep it to a max of four cigs a day- for me, it’s hard to get my head straight when I wake up. I’m not saying you’re wrong. You’re absolutely correct- smoking is bad! Bad!

It’s just not really concerning me when I can and do still run five mornings a week. Once the semester starts, I will probably not have time to smoke except for right when I wake up.

Cigarettes are insidious. My grandfather performed who knows how many surgeries and saw smokers lung after smokers lung among other things and still smoked a few a day.

But like I said, I won’t have time once this semester gets rolling. I mainly smoke in the mornings- something about waking up and then also the fact that coffee increases cravings.

I can rationalize all I want, but it will have to go once school starts back up. Perhaps I will get all the stuff I have to do before going back done and then devote this weekend to withdrawals like I have done before.

Ah ■■■■ this is bad. As long as I keep it to a few a day and do my run on time this morning, I will have at least not gone too far backwards. I should devote Friday and Saturday to withdrawals. Just one when I wake up then play music and lay on my bed in withdrawals- it works! I’ve done it before.

I had an acute episode among other crises last week and it made me smoke again- gotta undo that ■■■■. Not like I did it, it more like happened to me, a med change, computer crashed, argument with my dad, and resulting psychotic state.

When I finish my workouts, especially the runs, I feel like I am standing my ground. It helps my self esteem a lot.

Maybe I should start today or something. Like no more cigs today. Well, I probably can pull it off, it will just hurt a lot.

Thanks for the slap on the wrist, I feel encouraged to not smoke any more today. I shall lock myself in my room and come out to eat and use the bathroom after my run this morning. I can’t be an example of recovery on here and report smoking a few cigs a day because of an episode.

Okay, high road it is. I shall run and do errands then devote today to not smoking. If I feel intense cravings or withdrawals, I will put a rubber band on my wrist and pop it back to make the cravings something to avoid. I will also just stay in my room and chew gum or something.

2 Likes
7

I hope things turn out good for you.
Remember, it is always "easier said than done."
Keep it up!

8

Im a total morning person. My nightmares give me terrible insomnia. I sleep basically every other night and when I do I sleep from about 11-3 in the morning. On the bright side I’m sort of getting used to it and have built quite a nice morning routine. My morning walks to and from the gym are nice. Then I go on a run and get to see the sunrise. Then if i have time I make an awesome breakfast. If I don’t feel like excersize I read or walk my dog or hike or do anything I don’t have time to do during the day. I feel very productive in the mornings.

1 Like
9

■■■■, this no smoking thing is hard. I just made my 3.5 mile run in 29 minutes and feel like I deserve a cigarette. I hate this ■■■■.

10

Have you tried an ecig? They’re great, helped me quit with no problems. Not the really cheap disposable ones though they are rubbish

1 Like
11

Stay strong mousey :heart:

2 Likes
12

i got to sleep around 930 and wake up at 7

13

Since childhood I haven’t slept well. My teens and twenties were the “worst”. Back then I couldn’t get to sleep until 2-3:00am, and I would sleep maybe four hours. Now, I fall asleep more easily, by 9-10pm. I wake up during the night, but don’t get up until 3,4, or 5:00 am. Most oftn 5:00. Sleeping in is 6:00. I love an hour nap during the day when I can. :sleeping:

1 Like
14

I woke up early yesterday - 10am.

15

I have been a early bird since I was born. Right now until it gets lighter outside, I find myself going to bed between 8 and 9. I usually get up about 5 or 6.

Mouse I went from 3 packs a day to none in a day. Cravings ended after about a week, then it was just breaking the habit. You can do it! You’ve got the will! Go for it!

1 Like
16

I just bought some lozenges to replace me smoking. Using one right now, actually. The number one thing is no tobacco. Lozenges are okay in my opinion- it’s the cancer I am concerned with. My stamina is strong and I worked hard to get it that way, too.

17

I have to get back into a normal sleep pattern.

Usually I’ve been in bed around 9:30 or so… read a bit… decompress… asleep by 10:00 up by 6:30 or 7:00.

My sis it still a lifeguard and guards the early morning lap swim… 5:30 a.m. so sometimes I’ll go in and swim before work.

These past few weeks of break… have been all over the board. My younger brother lived with us for a few weeks… I think his manic energy has been contagious. I’ve been fighting to keep my feet on the ground.

My sleep pattern has been all over… my thinking has been all over the board too. It like half of me is trying to just float away.

1 Like
18

I wake up at whenever o’ clock because my sleep pattern is highly unpredictable at this point due to having whatever sleep disorder I have that has to be in the advanced stages by now by how it affects me. I honestly hate how I can’t sleep an 8 hour sleep the same time each day routinely because I have no clue of things like when I should be changing my clothes and just do it on best guess.

19

Good to hear. Have you tried running ir exercising more. You know like a distraction. I know it’s easy to think it doesnt effect you now, but i noticed when i was getting to rhe point of closer to 10 miles a day alot of good health decisions started to come naturally and smoke became unbearable. Anyways, good luck.

20

Well, ten miles a day is a little much, but yes I run 3.5 miles five mornings a week.

Today I have to skip breakfast and therefore skip Geodon to go get blood drawn. I have to push my schedule back and I feel like ■■■■!

Addicted to exercise and that’s better than cough syrup or bottles of whiskey and over a pack of cigs a day.

Soon as they draw my blood I’m gonna eat the sandwich I am bringing and taking my Geodon, then gonna go run and then eat lunch and then work the heavy bag and abs with my workout buddies.

Skipping Geodon sucks ass. I feel like ■■■■.