Why Sleep Matters: Expert Guide to Mental Resilience

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According to my sleep monitor, I basically get zero "deep" sleep. I understand that as we get older, we get less deep sleep. As a 56yo, I'm wondering if this should be a concern or not.

What if i told you to listen to Tracy chapman ?

The bedtime thing doesn't work. We work 8 hours. We can be "drafted" to work and additional 4 hours earlier or 4 hours later 3 times a week. Also I coluntarily run an animal rescue and I have to wake up early with very little sleep to get cats/pets to vet appointments, to adopters or to transfer them from one foster situation to another. So if I get off work at 10 pm and get home and do all the things the foster pets need for care. I can go to bed at 1 am. I get up at 7 am to start getting ready for work and doing all the medicating, feeding, care again. Then if I have vet appointments I may need to be up at 5 am and gone by 6 am. Same problem if I am drafted early and have to get up earlier to get care completed before going to work 4 hours early. If I have to work 4 hours late I dont get to bed until 4 am or later

Hope everyone can find peaceful sleep and find joy

I have anemia

You are really good!

Thank you.

This is a great video - as always! An additional tip that I heard years ago - sleep divorce. My husband snores and It was impacting my sleep so we now sleep in separate rooms. I miss him but my sleep has improved ( as has my patience!)

I have my final exams within 14 days , these exams are super important but I’m dealing with stress , doubts, limited beliefs, and most importantly self sabotaging myself for procrastinating in the past , I literally don’t even know what to do now 😢

Come la mettiamo se lavoriamo su turni!?

I’ve tried everything: exercise, meditation, medication, cutting back on caffeine, not eating at least 3 hours before bed, a sleep compression program…Even if I can sleep, I never feel good. I’m about at my wits’ end.

Sleep? After years struggling with fibromyalgia im unwell the most after bad nights. Then i have panic attacks, then analise my actions for days/nights. Then overwhelmed i need go for treatment and suffer in hospital....one told me im intimidating while im recovering from panic attack- i couldn't express verbally adequately .

Love this

Many thanks Dr.Marks, this was helpful, and i have also experienced some of the symtoms you described due to insufficient sleep (Exhausted, stressed, on-edge, etc...)
Will watch it again.
My Respects. 👋🏿❤🌹

All fine if you can get to sleep!

Another great video from Dr Marks. Watching this after time change and missing that hour😂

Up watching this at 12 am

I cant possibly sleep in 65 degrees im sorry thats absolutely ridiculous im shivering at 69

For decades have had a sleep disturbance where I wake up multiple times at night but I always was able to get right back to sleep. Now for the past 5 and a half years I've been staying overnight with my mother who is 94. She wakes me up 5 or 6 in the middle of the night. Evening with a sleeping pill she continually wakes me up. How do you get proper rest? I also have fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome. Sleep is so important to me but some nights I barely get a total of 3 hours.

Thank you again Dr marks

The blue light stuff is actually a myth. Blue light might b pe harsher but we are talking about blue light from the sun. Meanwhile phone screentime is bad for your sleep cycle but that includes all the colors. Blue light filters are a gimmick.

Good sleep hygiene is key to good mental health. Free therapy. Good sleep resets your nervous system to restful stage instead of stress & fight or flight. Take it easy.

I had all of the bad sleep symptons she was describing when I was working shift work.

I knew my home lights always kept me up more , during evening i try to turn off my lights and follow the natural light of outside , i might have a lamp here n there though if it’s too dark haha

YES

sleep is becoming a luxury as you age. i hope you have a video about how we can have good quality sleep as it's too hard eversince I turned 40

Night shift , not helping ! 😵‍💫

watching this instead of sleeping

I love my sleep and I love my cpap machine ❤

Sleeping at 65F what??? I have my heater set to keep the room 76f and sleep with a sweatshirt and sweatpants under a Sherpa blanket.

What is emotional reserve? How do you physically and chemically explain and experience that?

Great videos

Dr. Tracey, I truly appreciate the valuable insights you share through your podcasts and videos. They are incredibly helpful, and I always look forward to listening to your latest episodes. Please continue your great work; you deserve all the recognition for your efforts. Wishing you all the best!

And yes this all may be very true....but if you have an autoimmune... or tick bourn/ co infections!! Nothing psychiatric helps including getting no sleep!! Let's get to the real root problem for why people don't sleep!!!! Ugh!!

3 years of sleep deprivation mostly 5 hours or less all while on 4 drugs that cause dizziness,,drowsiness, weakness and two of them are known to interrupt your sleep at the same time. throw in chronic pain at 61 its amazing im still alive. ps also have ibs, depression, panic disorder, all since the 80s

wear blue light glasses 3hrs before bedtime and also switch on dim lights and lower brightness of the laptop.
When u are not sleepy read something, when u r sleepy, sleep (this trains ur mind)

This is WHY we need to put an end to DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!! It interrupts people's sleep patterns. The missing 1 hr during the summer gives me the feeling of not getting enough sleep. That's why many people get the sense of relief when they get that hour back in the fall when Daylight Saving comes to an end.

but sleep is the first thing affected by stress. Whats the solution then?

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Thank you Ms. Tracy

I'm being VERY SLOWLY tapered off of a benzodiazepene after being on one for THIRTY ONE YEARS. I literally cannot sleep most nights. It's as if my body and brain have forgotten how. OR... I'll sleep for ten hours but wake up feeling like I never did at all. Being sleep deprived is crazy making.

After over 20 years of autoimmune disease and pain induced chronic insomnia I only wish that life would be so easy as this video suggests it to be. It's both weird and annoying how there are two parallels in our world. The one for the healthy and the one for the sick but the healthy always expect the sick to function like they do. Oh well, waiting for the amyloid plaques build-up to do its thing.

Thank you. This is great video to show for my class today because we are discussing emotional regulation from DBT. ❤

I’m really grateful for all these videos ❤🎉🙏

God bless you ❤

I work in a psych inpatient unit, just showed this in my group, the patients really liked it!

thank you for this video. listening to this at work ironically running on abt an hour of sleep and feeling miserable. what you talk about explains a lot. i have always felt chronically frustrated and overwhelmed and the fact that sleep contributes makes sense. i have had terrible sleep since elementary school haha

Great information. Wish i could have shown this video to my husband a few years to validate my argument for supporting my need for more sleep hours as well as quality of sleep! 😂