I couldn’t remember simple things, or complete sentences or mundane tasks successfully. Lack of sleep combined with an excessive workload gradually caused me to become unable to function. Insomnia and mental health should be taken seriously in the workplace.Īnonymous ‘Eventually I became unfit for work’ My insomnia would have improved faster had this pressure not been there. This pressure only made my anxiety worse. I was criticised for seeming downbeat and tired. My boss regularly asked personal questions about my mental health and what I was doing to improve my insomnia. Most of the time I could get the work done, but I was completing tasks at a slower rate. I found it difficult to focus at work during this period and felt under a lot of pressure to “get better”. Once I was worrying less about having to make it through the next working day I was able to sleep better, although my sleep patterns were still very irregular for around six months afterwards. I was eventually signed off work by a doctor and was able to take about three weeks off. My stomach hurt, my head hurt, and I cried repeatedly. For the first four weeks I lay awake for hours and only seemed able to fall asleep for around 15 minutes at a time. In a previous job I suffered from a bout of severe anxiety-fuelled insomnia.
The cumulative effect of months of sleeping trouble caused bad migraines, modes of depression, and anxiety attacks, which made falling asleep even harder.Īnonymous, 34, musician, the Netherlands ‘I was eventually signed off work’ On the few occasions I was performing, I was more on autopilot. Even worse, working as a music teacher became almost unbearable (imagine listening to six-year-olds playing recorder when you’ve had an hour’s sleep or so). My insomnia impacted me so much that as a musician I found it harder and harder to push myself to practise.
I often dream of what my life could have been without insomnia.Īnonymous, director of a small not-for-profit, London ‘Working as a music teacher became almost unbearable’
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I have had some satisfying moments career-wise since then, but I feel as if I lost out a great deal – in money and professional development. I left my job and started to do a mixture of voluntary and consultancy work part-time in the not-for-profit sector.
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