I go through episodes where I convince myself that if I sleep I won't wake up again. I've gone for days and days before.

Totally.
I need my sleepers otherwise the Movies in my head keep me up and I wake up more tired than when I went to sleep.

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Iranian called Bahb !haha

ugh, i've had nightmares that give you that sweat in the morning, like as i was being tortured...the best thing to do is sleep, but my problem is trying to go to sleep, i'm afraid to close my eyes because i'm afraid of what might happen...

Nah i cant honestly say that i have felt to scared to go to sleep because of dreams but i have felt to scared to go to sleep because ihave thought ghosts are stalking me.
when im manic or on the verge of an episode but i dont think so and i can usually get myself out of it (by comatosing myself)
by staying up late and then later then putting off bed more and more just one more song one more drink one more pill if i have them thinl think think

i dobnt want to go to sleep sometimes because sometimes i think daylight is my enemy. daylight brings stress and have toos

sometimes i dont sleep well enough to dream, other times i dream, but i dont remember them

are you having vivid dreams, those can be awful, sorry

That's why I am up so early today...Started getting night terrors again, was up at 4:30am. Yes, the dreams scare the hell out of me.

Like some others I sometimes feel that if I go sleep I just wont wake up. I get into the cycle of worrying myself so much that I wnot sleep, then I'm so over tired that I can't sleep

I use to have night terrors. I had them from the time I was a baby until last year. There was a lot of abuse in my childhood. Even more with my ex-husband.

A friend prayed over me, he's a preacher, and he cast out the bad dreams and all the spirits of horror and fear from my life.
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I have this semi-addiction to horror flicks. If I watch them before bedtime I try to clear that from my mind and get my mind [[which is under my control]] to think on the beauty that is.

It works!

I used to be scared to go to sleep so I started praying for safety while I slept. That helped a lot. Now, I dream all the time and wake up during the night. I need to get on a different sleep med. I stopped the seroquel because it made me so fat.