Hi @Cs5rd1e0 -
That is great to hear you are doing so well post-clipping! I am especially proud of you for trying not to push yourself too much!
Admittedly I am just a fellow patient and without any official expertise, but it seems reasonable to me as a layperson that you are dealing with some emotional issues after your experience; it seems quite normal and to be expected as you are dealing with having had your life overturned! Having an aneurysm diagnosis is a scary thing - flat out!! Admittedly this is from our friends in Singapore, but I liked it as it was patient-focused (and not a medical study).
Alternatively, keeping all things local to you, this is via the Hereditary Brain Aneurysm (UK) that has some online guides - thinking of the Living with Anxiety as an example where one of the pillars is one’s mental health.
Helping to manage those emotions by talking it out - with us, with counselors - all super important! Please use us as much as you need and reach out to your medical team as well!
Finally, yes, sleep! Not helpful to know how important it is, as then our monkey minds obsess on how we should be sleeping which causes us to stay awake, right?!?! Sometimes our brains don’t cooperate. A wee bit back, @Moltroub asked me to gather some of my stress reduction techniques so I am linking to the post where I started a list. You may want to take a gander and/or add others if you know of them to see if it helps you.
In addition, anecdotally, I do find that regularly practicing meditation has helped me improve my sleep. I found this one medical study that at least begins to support that notion.
Additionally, there was moderate strength of evidence that mindfulness meditation interventions significantly improved sleep quality compared with nonspecific active controls at post-intervention (ES 0.33 [95% CI 0.17–0.48]) and at follow-up (ES 0.54 [95% CI 0.24–0.84]). These preliminary findings suggest that mindfulness meditation may be effective in treating some aspects of sleep disturbance. Further research is warranted.
Post rupture, I was on some medication that helped me to sleep, but if it is not something your doctors recommend it isn’t exactly something you want to run to take (gabapentin) - again, that’s a layperson talking. If you are really having issues, you may want to mention that to your medical team as they will understand how important sleep is to your healing!
Thanks for keeping us posted on how you are doing! Let us know what we can do for you!
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