Looking back, Julie realizes how a chronic lack of sleep spiraled into heightened anxiety.
Transcript
I wish I had known in advance how hard it might be. And it’s OK that it’s hard and that it’s not a reflection of the woman in terms of not being strong enough, not being, you know, resilient enough. You know, it’s not a reflection of – it’s nothing to be shamed about. That it is incredibly hard and you think about mental health and, like, a key component of mental health is sleep. Sleep and nutrition. Like, a core fundamental pillar of health and mental health is sleep and nutrition. And to think, then, you know, especially for someone like us that we went – we were getting, like, no sleep. Like, no sleep. Like, I’d say maybe three hours sleep max, a night, for weeks and weeks and weeks.
If you think about that, like, if I think about that now and, like, I have so much more compassion and kindness for myself in terms of how then that could spiral your thinking to be heightened anxiety, heightened depression. Because your processing of things is just so different because you’re not coming from a frame of restfulness so you’re not making decisions and you’re not thinking about things and interpreting it and perceiving your environment in the way that you optimally would if you had sleep. [Laughter]
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