I don\'t think I quite understand this therapy! I usually sleep after a crazy night of binge drinking, but how does this work exactly?-Jitterbug

sleep off a hangover sure! Sleep and wish I wouldn\'t wake up? You betcha! Sleep to not drink? Hmmm...well even in my sleep sometimes I tipped a few too many.

I have always had sleep issues. I have never slept well sober or not. Most of those that I know are similar.

That's what we use and we even use it to make ice cream and pudding! My husband even like it and now we just buy 2% Lactose Free milk (Fred Meyer's & Albertson's make the same thing) and they are great!

i can sleep for long stretches of time.
i never thought of it as a treatment.
a lot my sleeping patterns are depression related.
i guess sleep is the safest escape though.

If youre an alcoholic you arent going to get any sleep when it comes to the D.T's..

SLEEP! are you kidding? what the hell is that?

hi doug you my only firnd. I cant sleep all week so I sneek my wife medicin.

I guess you could say that i did it. I was kept under a lot if the time that I was in hospital and it gave me a kick start so to speak. In other words I was not awake enough for about 3 weeks to get the urge to smoke or drink and it did work.

It's good to get a certain amount of sleep at night, so you feel better the next day, but as far as sleep to help recover from alcoholism,there is no way it would work.

I agree with krm, if we are disciplined or forced to sleep by any other means it will make the world of difference in the first few weeks.

A.A. outside of rehab can't do this for us or watch over us like in a rehab or hospital.

I only listen to old war stories nothing much happens in meettings where I am and alot of other meetings I have been to are the same. Some can't live without it.

I was taught healthy sleeping habbits and it made the world of difference for me and 69 other guys in rehab. In bed befor 10 p.m. and up at 6 a.m. for 7 months to 10 months.

When sleep is used to escape from life then it is not going to work.

My opinion only.

mj

Personally I think of sleeping as a solution to alcoholism as being similar to going into a coma for a while. Once you wake up, you still have to go through whatever it is you have to go through.

Often, when I've been in some kind of really bad pain I've wished I could go into a temporary coma but I knew when I came out of it I'd still have to deal with whatever was bothering me.

I went throug a period of thinking drinking a few would help me sleep. When that didn't work I would just have another one. Sleep would hit before or if I passed out. Getting some good sleep does make you more energetic but them your more prone to go at the drinking again.

I did find after I stopped drinking totaly that I eventually had better sleep.

I can't stand sleep aids they stay with me to long the next day so I try to avoid them. I am talking just equate sleeping pills over the counter at wally world.

I really thought sleep as a treatment for Alcoholism was a joke or a mistake. Now that I see that "Doug" has asked that question, I think that they have a program that randomly posts for Doug. This is how it works:

Post from Doug, everyone's friend, owner etc.
"Tell us about your personal experience with as a treatment: Has it worked? Have you had any issues? Any recommendations or tips? "

Don't get me wrong. I love this site, but they don't have to do this. To cover my bases, if Doug actually asked that question. My bad, but if he had trouble with alcohol he would know it was a stupid question. Alcoholics get drunk, SLEEP it off and repeat.

What I remember from Detox, you don't sleep. Just shaking, sweating, feeling like crap. Not much sleeping.

If I'm wrong, Doug can set me right and I will eat crow.

My post didn't turn out right, it should read:

Tell us about your personal experience with "insert treatment or sleep in this case" as a treatment: Has it worked? etc