Cannot sleep at the station anymore

[u/c00kieduster]

15 years in, company officer at a suburb dept of 4 stations, 100ish people, 48/96. We average 4-5 in a 24 hr period, sometimes 1-2, sometimes 12-16.

It’s not all that uncommon for us to get to sleep through the night. However, in the last year or 2, I simply cannot sleep through the night. Even without calls, I’m getting up 2-3 times. Usually it’s a toss and turn, occasionally I’ll get up to go to bathroom but that’s not the reason.

When I’m at home, my head hits the pillow and unless something wakes me up, I sleep like a baby.

Anyone experience this? Got any tips?

[u/Express_Note_5776]

Honestly, when that happened to me I went to therapy. It might not feel like it, but for me my body held everything and I didn’t necessarily consciously realize I was struggling. In the meantime just regular tea helped me, you can do chamomile to help with actually sleeping, but I used to just do jasmine cause I was worried about being groggy

[u/Mega_Cron → u/Express_Note_5776]

Book: The Body Keeps the Score

https://a.co/d/9yLNrMf

If you have never read it, I highly recommend.

[u/No-Turnips → u/Express_Note_5776]

Therapist here. We have entire sleep/insomnia focussed therapy programs for first responders/military/etc.

I cannot support the previous comment enough. Help exists and is available. look for CBT-I or SRT treatment programs.

Good luck!