Question regarding sleep after going sober

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Lots of good replies already, and it is a really common question if you search around.

Yeah, it isn’t surprising! The best advice I got was to stick it out and do my best about keeping good habits. Clean living stuff like watching caffeine in the afternoon, try to get to bed and get up at a certain time each day (even when it sucks). “Sleep hygiene.”

Little by little it gets better. Now I naturally crash at 11pm usually, and always wake up ready before my alarm! Took weeks or maybe months before it leveled out though.

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I will say this too: It’s still a marvel to me I wake up ready to go early every morning. It’s such a stark contrast to years of waking up late, practically sleep walking with a hangover until the afternoon.

It’s a freakin’ gift of hours turning into days turning into years given back to me, just from getting sober.

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