Insomnia Issues

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Stress about my current employment and the fact that my newest neighbors above me torture me nightly with stomping and slamming doors and drawers until I sometimes get 1 hour of sleep - sometimes nothing. I’ve almost lost my job b/c I fell asleep until 15 minutes after I was supposed to open the facility.
They lie that they do it to the manager. I’ve called the police many times, I’ve sought help from the manager and no one can stop them. It is a condo.
I scream out to the Lord to make them stop but He doesn’t stop them. I’m so tired all the time in the day that I cannot do what I need to do b/c I have to catch up on sleep.
I do not know why they hate me so much and want to make my life miserable.
I am so exhausted and can’t think and just want to cry and go away. But I lie awake and can’t sleep at night b/c of them. They even drop things on the floor above me that wake me up and then can’t get back to sleep.
WHy doesn’t the Lord stop this?? I was afraid of oversleeping and it happened once and can never happen again or I am jobless and I’m already destitute and struggling to pick up the pieces of my life after this economy hit me hard.
Help me, Lord! Why don’t You help me??
 
Glory be to The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be
World without end
Amen
 
Have you tried listening to music when you sleep? I don’t know how good it is for your ears, but I used to sleep with headphones in (and I move a lot!). Not anything hardcore, but rather some gregorian chant and such when my dormmate went to bed after me and it would distract me.

Everyone is called to carry their cross. Maybe the Lord is trying to tell you something or is asking you to pray for the couple that is continuously fighting. It sounds like a really difficult situation.

Know of my prayers for you and your neighbors.
 
Wow, that sounds hard. I suppose it isn’t possible to move somewhere else? You could try sleeping with earplugs in and see if that can drown out the noise. An earlier poster mentioned listening to music, which was a good idea too.

God bless you, I will remember you in my prayers.
 
If you can’t move, you can try and investing in some good quality noise cancelling headphones. Maybe you can invite a few friends overnight and then go to the manager as a group and complain about the rukus. Do you rent or own? If you rent and the manager will not act, you can try and contact the owner or the management company. We live across the street from a bar, and I understand what you are going through. After several years, the bar came under new management; he closed the back door and the troublemakers went around to the other side of the building, where no one can hear them.
 
Therese, it is clear that you are stressed to the breaking point and need immediate relief. I know what it is like to try to sleep when there is a lot of noise and I’ve tried many options. I recommend that you go out right now to the drugstore and buy ear plugs. The Hearos Ultimate Softness are quite comfortable, very effective, and can be found at Walgreens. It will take some effort to get used to the feeling of ear plugs, but they can save your sanity. So just put them in, relax, and let yourself fall asleep.

I’ve tried perhaps 50 different kinds/brands of ear plugs. I would suggest you get a sampler pack from the Ear Plug Superstore and try out different brands. The most effective ear plugs are foam. The most comfortable are custom-molded. I have both.

Another option is ear muffs. The Peltor Optime 105s are quite comfortable, but if it is at all warm in the room, you will sweat a little where the material contacts your skin.

For the ultimate in silence, you can wear ear plugs and ear muffs simultaneously.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death
Amen.

St. Jude, pray for us!
 
I am afraid to use earplugs because then I can’t hear my alarms. I set 3.
Move in this economy with a mortgage? I’d have to foreclose.
I try using a noise machine app on my phone but when it’s so loud that my ceiling and walls shake. What’s the cure for that?
I do not believe in this being my cross to carry. I believe it is the enemy trying to keep me from being successful and the fact that these people are sinful and disrespectful to all human beings.
I believe it’s part of their culture.

I have prayed for the Lord to bless them with a new home as well as making them stop while they’re here. I cannot function like this and it’s destroying my life.

That is nobody’s cross to bear.
 
therese_lisieux said:
I am afraid to use earplugs because then I can’t hear my alarms. I set 3.
Move in this economy with a mortgage? I’d have to foreclose.
I try using a noise machine app on my phone but when it’s so loud that my ceiling and walls shake. What’s the cure for that?
I do not believe in this being my cross to carry. I believe it is the enemy trying to keep me from being successful and the fact that these people are sinful and disrespectful to all human beings.
I believe it’s part of their culture.

I have prayed for the Lord to bless them with a new home as well as making them stop while they’re here. I cannot function like this and it’s destroying my life.

That is nobody’s cross to bear.
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I feel for you and I will add you to my prayer list.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
therese_lisieux said:
I am afraid to use earplugs because then I can’t hear my alarms. I set 3.
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That is a valid concern. When it has been a concern for me (and I sometimes have to carry a pager) I set my mobile phone (which doubles as alarm clock) on vibrate and put it in the pocket of the shorts which I wear to bed. This may or may not work for you. It is not a perfect solution, but it allowed me to sleep.
 
chipeto said:
That is a valid concern. When it has been a concern for me (and I sometimes have to carry a pager) I set my mobile phone (which doubles as alarm clock) on vibrate and put it in the pocket of the shorts which I wear to bed. This may or may not work for you. It is not a perfect solution, but it allowed me to sleep.
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I use my phone as a vibrating alarm clock too. Not because I’m wearing earplugs, but because I don’t want to wake the whole house up at 5 in the morning.

If it’s really noisy where you’re living, can you hear your alarm clock in the morning? If you can’t, then using your phone could work better.
 
what about sleeping pills?

keep complaining to the authorities
or
knock or bash on the noise makers doors and tell them to please be quiet

doesnt any body else in the building complain,go complain to them together

otherwise pray the chaplet of St Michael each night and trust he’ll take care of them
 
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