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I Wake Up at Three Every Morning and Sleep Will Not Come Back

I am sixty-seven. For thirty-eight years I taught in schools here in Jashore, and for the last eleven I was headmaster of a high school. Two years ago I retired. My pension comes, my house is my own, and my children are settled. On paper, my life is in order. In the small hours of the night, it does not feel that way.

Most nights I wake at three, sometimes a little before, and that is the end of sleep. I lie there while my mind walks through old staff rooms and old quarrels. The day that follows is long and strangely empty. No bell rings for me now. No assembly waits. I sit on the veranda and skip the morning walk I once never missed. By evening I have spoken fewer words than I did in one class period.

My wife finally said this was not rest, and not an old man's habit either. Our family doctor agreed with her. He told me a psychiatrist is a doctor who treats troubles of the mind, and that broken sleep like mine deserves a hearing. I had never looked for such a doctor. My grandson sat beside me with his phone, and together we opened the DoctorBD24 list of doctors in Jashore and searched from there.

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I Wake Up at Three Every Morning and Sleep Will Not Come Back

He asked what my days look like now

The psychiatrist began with my day, not my sleep. What fills it, he asked, and what used to fill it. He asked about my teaching years, my health, and the reports in my steel almirah. He asked whether such a phase had come before.

A day with some shape to it

He said a mind that spent forty years inside a timetable does not rest well in shapeless days. We talked about giving my day a frame again: fixed hours for waking, for walking, for company. The sittings would run alongside, at gaps he set.

The medicine he added later

He did not write a medicine on the first day. When he added one later, he explained what it was for. I follow his writing exactly. A brighter morning does not mean I may drop it on my own. Stopping in one sudden step is something he warned me against. If it gives me trouble, I report it to him. Adjustments are his department, not mine.

My son joins only by my word

My elder son phones from Dhaka and asks what the doctor says. Family can join a sitting when the patient agrees, the psychiatrist told me. My sittings stay mine until I choose to share them.

An old colleague needed different hands

My grandson showed me the site sorts doctors by their kind of work. A colleague from my teaching years had a swelling in his belly. It needs an operation, and his family was looking through the general surgeons listed for Jashore. My trouble is sleep and the mind, so we went back to the list we needed.

Is waking at three just a part of growing old?

I asked him that myself. He said age changes sleep, yes. But nights that leave a man worn out, and days that feel empty, are worth a doctor's hearing. Nobody should just fold his hands.

Why did he want my old reports and my health history?

He said troubles in the body can sit behind broken sleep. He wants that side seen clearly first. If a check belongs to another doctor, he will name it plainly.

Why no medicine on the first day?

Because he had not heard me fully. He wanted the whole picture first. A medicine, if it comes, comes after that.

Will my mornings ever feel like mornings again?

He promised no date. Change in sleep creeps in small steps, he said. We count them together, sitting by sitting.

What if a bad patch comes between sittings?

I am not to wait it out in silence. I should let him know sooner, describe what has changed, and he will decide whether the gap should close.

If a night ever brings thoughts of harming myself, what must I do?

Act that same day. Tell my wife or someone near me at once, and reach a hospital without waiting for morning. The same holds if several nights pass with no sleep at all while my mind races on. Or if washing, eating, and the simple work of a day suddenly defeat me. Agitation beyond my grip is reason enough too.

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