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Hey, I need advice on how to get straight out of bed of a morning

A bit of a short backstory so I lost my old job due to depression(tried to argue it out but lost it because of a zero hour contract) anyway I have a new job now but it requires me to wake up at 4am in the morning it's currently 10pm I've taken my medication witch has sedatives in witch is meant to help me sleep but my mind is still active

Well my alarm goes off at 4 and I'm like a ghost I have no sense of what I'm doing I snooze my alarm and get back into bed, 5:15 rolls around I'm still in bed I need your advice on what I can do to just turn my alarm off and go downstairs and do my breakfast I want to but I don't even think straight at 4 o'clock my phone is over the other side of the room so I have to get out and walk across the room to turn it off but I still end up back in bed


Any help will be much appreciated thank you
-Heski
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Don't take the sleepers.
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Go to bed earlier. Allow yourself time for at least 7 hours of sleep, so you want to be getting into bed between 8PM and 9PM.
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I'm working in London and I wake up at 4am to be out the house by 4:30. I just set my alarm to a calm song but then on vibration which straight away gets me up, it's the most annoying thing ever but always seems to wake me up straight away. I would normally lay in bed for a bit but I force myself up to get changed etc. I am up quite late now but I sometimes sleep at around 9pm after I have showered which makes me pretty chilled out in bed so when I wake up I'm not ridiculously tired.

That's what I do anyway and I get up just fine. To be honest though, if you don't want to get out of bed for work etc that's just down to laziness.
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Download an alarm clock app that makes you do math problems in order to stop the alarm. The more the hit snooze the harder the questions get.
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I set more than one alarm like 8 and that helps me get out of the bed. Also set your alarm clock or phone across then bedroom forcing you to get up. Go to bed earlier.
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Have a full glass of cold water as soon as you wake up.

That really helps me out, I don't remember why it works but it does.

Also if you don't have 6+ hours sleep obviously you will be tired
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You are going to need to stop taking sleeping meds first off. Secondly, you are going to have to stay up from the moment you get up for work until a decent hour when you get home so that you can turn your sleep schedule around and get back up at 4 AM without much of a struggle anymore. It is going to be hard to stay up all day, but if you can manage to do it when you lay down for bed you will fall asleep much quicker and stay asleep until your alarm the next morning.
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I suggest the "Sleep Cycle" app. It gradually wakes you up over the course of 30 minutes with a soothing melody. So, in your case, the built-in alarm would start going off at 3:30am (and you can snooze it up until 4 am). Once it is 4am though, the alarm will not stop until you physically turn it off.

In addition, I use another alarm which I snooze until it's the time I really do need to get up. I have trouble getting up in the morning as well, but there becomes a point that I understand that I absolutely need to get up and get going. I don't know how to help you with this part of the problem because it's something that you yourself need to wrap your head around and realize. Either get up, or lose your job. I'm not trying to be harsh, but that's really all it boils down to. If you can't do it, I suggest finding another shift or a different job with a better schedule. I understand - getting up at 4 am sounds like it blows balls, but it sounds like it's your only option.

Good luck.
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