Ask HN: Are you ok?
I recently experienced months of sleeping problems. Where I wouldn&#x27;t sleep for days. Or would sleep a few hours. I would be exhausted and my head would hit the pillow and BAM adrenaline and I can hear my heart pounding and I&#x27;m awake. It got so bad I would go into the basement and destroy a wall that I kept repairing. I would cry in frustration. I started to have suicidal thoughts.  It was harming my marriage and made me a crappy father.<p>I&#x27;ve seen a psychologist before for other things but there&#x27;s just something about me that makes me stubborn. I should have seen one again but I never got around to it. I kept self-justifying that &quot;new idea X&quot; would be what fixes the problem.<p>I think the issue was subconscious because if you asked, I couldn&#x27;t tell you what was bothering me. But I think it might be about being this pillar of my family, the sole breadwinner, and had a toddler and a baby and a mortgage and a new remote job all within 2 years. Everything piles on and there&#x27;s a ton of good reasons to feel anxiety.<p>Anyways, you know what ended up changing everything and making me sleep like a baby? World of Warcraft Classic.  I used to never find time for gaming. Or games would never keep my attention. I would always wander off to the huge list of things I need to be doing to be a good worker, dad, housekeeper, husband.  But I got into WoW for chuckles and got hooked on having 3 hours a night to just do stupid pointless stuff in a fantasy world.  And now falling asleep feels so different. My brain is relaxed, replaying some of the moments from the video game in my daydreaming imagination. And before I know it, I wake up rested and energized and actually looking forward to experiencing the next day.