{"id":14870,"date":"2020-11-09T09:58:16","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T14:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=14870"},"modified":"2020-11-09T20:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T01:51:45","slug":"ominous-insomnia-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/11\/09\/ominous-insomnia-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Ominous insomnia cure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As long as I can remember, I\u2019ve had trouble shutting off my mind to get to sleep. One night, for some reason, I tried to die by willing my heart to stop. I didn\u2019t die. But I went right to sleep. Since then, I\u2019ve been doing the same thing to get to sleep almost every night. I\u2019ve never slept better. I promise I\u2019m NOT suicidal. I\u2019m happy and productive during my waking hours. But I worry. Am I harming my psyche, could I actually induce depression or real suicidality by doing this?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Yikes &#8211; as you say, sounds ominous. I&#8217;m very glad you&#8217;re not suicidal, but since you are worried about harming your psyche (and I am, too), why not contact University Counseling Services (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-counseling\">bit.ly\/BC-counseling<\/a>) and run it by them. Discuss your sleep problems, too. They may have some good suggestions for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as I can remember, I\u2019ve had trouble shutting off my mind to get to sleep. One night, for some reason, I tried to die by willing my heart to stop. I didn\u2019t die. But I went right to sleep. Since then, I\u2019ve been doing the same thing to get to sleep almost every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2020\/11\/09\/ominous-insomnia-cure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ominous insomnia cure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14877,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14870\/revisions\/14877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}