Bringing it Home: Coronasomnia

i'm not gonna see till i touch your face baby not a week i could go for days if you ever needed to see me down on my knees take a look at me baby i can't sleep oh bring it home with sarah and senil that is clay walker i don't know clay walker i'm familiar well he can't sleep the name of the song is i can't sleep yes well hopefully he's sleeping better these guys oh that's not a new song okay well hopefully his sleep patterns are good at this point but i'll tell you what a lot people's sleep patterns are off now there is a phenomenon called corona somnia now hang with me this is a lot of us so stay with me for a minute what this is it's an increase in sleep problems during the pandemic and it's got a lot to do with increased anxiety and stress it's different from regular insomnia i know a lot of my facebook friends have insomnia because i see the posts about you know having insomnia right this is pandemic related okay it's got to do with how our sleep habits change during the pandemic because think about it people were sleeping less at night okay because they didn't have to get up as early to commute many were working from home the kids weren't going to school they didn't have to catch the bus as early so we stayed up later well you know i definitely feel what's out of that because not having to come to work every day my alarm i got about an hour 15 minutes more sleep right i mean it takes a shorter length of time to get ready go to the litter room than it does to try to work so our sleep patterns got grown off and so it's still suffering today and sarah you look kind of tired today is it the back to school well today's university school for my kids oh yeah that explains the look so i've had a lot of parents and students are going to be dealing with corona somnia so there's this physician his name is dr seen and he's a sleep physician actually and he came up with a mnemonic fed up f-e-d-u-p and let's just talk about the reasons why people are having trouble sleeping right now that's related to the pandemic and so i gave you what the fed up stands for and so funny it really is so the reasons are financial stress emotional stress distance from others unpredictability and professional concerns let's run through these real quick financial we get that sure i mean prices are going up on everything and a lot of people's work situations have changed yeah you know so yeah financial stress yeah definitely pandemic related emotional that's huge i mean you know we're starting to see numbers increase again you know we thought we were kind of on the decline now they're coming back up so we're all over the place right right and just thinking about the last year you know it's emotional emotional distance from others um still kind of a thing you know even if we're back to traveling some we're probably not traveling as much as we normally do we're not gathering as often maybe as we used to and unpredictability that kind of beads into what i was just saying right about numbers we don't know from one minute to the next and then professional concern you know job instability uh some people are still working from home uh others are returning to the workplace everybody there's a lot going on a lot a lot and then you add on to that just you know school things and yeah for the kids yes yes so we need some tips we need some tips to get out there we want to avoid this corona somnia so we can get back on a healthy sleep pattern so what do you think what's a good tip obviously number one would try to be get back on that better sleep schedule how's it going you know we've been back at work full-time for over a month now and it's been longer than that quite a while kind of got some yeah your time is off but you know we were at home for 15 months and that you know but i'm adjusted to that now but i do make sure that i'm going to bed at a reasonable time and getting up and my one goes off so the seven to nine hours that are recommended for sleep are you getting back definitely okay everybody's not but no i think it's a problem for my house like we all just function better when everybody is well rested it's a problem for me too but i tell you even on the weekends we need to make sure that we're sticking to the same sleep schedule now that's challenging it can be hard because yeah you kind of want to sleep in on saturday morning and if you know you don't have to get up the next morning you tend to watch those late night movies that come on at 11 well that's my situation but you know and napping is something that we have to avoid if you're having trouble sleeping those naps they can just ruin it for you don't sleep during the day if you're having trouble sleeping at night sometimes a nap feels so good a power nap 20 to 30 minutes that's not enough for me but a lot of people just a short little power nap is exactly what they need but i feel you that's what's recommended you're guessing right 20 to 30 minutes um for a power nap but you know get some sunlight every day you know now we don't have something every day we've been in the rainy patterns this summer but the sunlight that regulates your body's internal clock what's it called a circadian rhythm i mean you need that sun just like okay it's wait time it's wait time and then when the sun goes down you know we start to come down from that and you know prepare for sleep time right so we gotta get sunlight it's also important to kind of take out any distractions from your bedroom you want it to be dark and quiet and cool oh that is perfect setting for some good sleep how do you like your bedroom dark i like it dark and i like it cold i like it cold but i do like a fan i like a little background noise i don't need it i don't like the tv on but i do love a fan actually i have two in my room oh wow so you got a whole breeze going on through there so yeah you got to make the bedroom a place that's conducive to sleep and you know caffeine and alcohol they are not your friend when it comes to getting a good night's sleep so these are two things that are recommended that do not uh partake in if you're having trouble sleeping right it'll stimulate you another thing that'll keep you up is if you eat late like a late supper yeah just um your body hasn't had time to digest you know that nightly upsets stomach or anything so it's better to eat an earlier supper and then um you know if you're gonna have a late night snack yeah make sure it's something light you know if you want to go to bed on like you know a plate full of chocolate cake and then go to bed yeah i get you on that because food will keep you up yeah and then you'll probably be laying in bed wishing you hadn't eaten it well i'll tell you something else that can keep you up at night is anxiety um that can really do it and you know it's recommended that you use exercise to manage your anxiety and you know exercise has a whole lot of other benefits other than just managing anxiety but you know anything that causes stress we can take a break from it don't you agree oh i agree 100 i mean the scrolling sometimes turn it off turn off the scrolling turn all the news stay away from negative people if you agree something to bring your your stress level down because that's going to fit your sleep do something that brings a little joy before bed now yes i like to read a book things like that yes that's the kind of thing that we need to be doing so we want to battle this coronavirus on you we don't want to be like clay walker we want to make sure that we are getting sleep and i just think some of these tips can come into play in and sarah you might have to exercise some of these tips for the back to school sleep deprivation you know it's always rough it's right every time but i got some good tips right here so so you'll be able to do that thank you all for joining us this week and in the words of mr bob marley now i wonder if he dealt with insomnia i doubt it he was a chill he probably did some of these tips though but he would want us to live the life you love and love the life you live sleep well you have to live the life you love and love yow you Thank you.