Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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Ever Have These Days

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Any of you ever have the kinda days when your'e technically not sick, but just worn out from being up all night and just feeling like shit the next day? I'm going through one of my non-sleep phases and was up all night. I now feel sick and like I'm ready to climb the walls from not sleeping. I went in this morning, got into my scrubs then got sick in the bathroom. I told my boss I'd been up all night which was true. So I went home and I feel guilty as hell for doing it , but sometimes it is out of my realm of control when I can't sleep. I even took Trazodone which knocks me out, but I was still up all night tossing and turning, now I feel hungover and spacey. I wish I could just sleep like a normal person . I hate pulling what I call all-nighters because I pay the next day.
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I do very regularly. A solid sleep pattern is something I have never been able to get let alone maintain.

I have nw learnt from years of trying and including taking rediculous amounts of sleeping tablets to accept the fact that I have very limited sleep.
So when I need sleep I do it and when I dont I dont. Laying in bed looking at the roof tossing and turning all night drives me nuttier than I already am. So I accept that I sleep 5 hours max...Some nights I dont sleep at all and then there is a day out of a month where that is all I can...
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I envy people that can sleep.
It dawned on me that most people sleep without the need for meds.
That's so strange to me now.
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I just started a new job and feel so guilty about it, but I can't function like this!
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I know how you feel. I havent slept well in the last three nights. It sucks!!! Even with my Ambien. Friday I took two rozerem (spelling) and 3 otc sleeps aids, still didnt work. That normally knocks me out.
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Been there, done that. If I go longer than 24 hours without sleep, I start feeling like I have the flu. Then I start with this nervous thing with my tongue (behave everyone). Then my mouth hurts to bad to even think of eating, drinking or even brushing my teeth. So I just climb under the covers and hope sleep finds me soon. My personal record for not sleep is 19 days. Honest, I am not making that up. I finally called my doc and he about went thru the roof. So he gave me some prescription that knocked my butt out for three days. Dont remember what it was, just that I felt like a million bucks when I woke up from that one.
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Not sleeping sucks, I know how you feel. I owrk from 515 to 115 everyday and I am up by 415 to get ready for work. I usually go to sleep after midnight. It must have been the moon or something because I only slept for like 90 minutes last night. When I get on a roll my sleep pattern is a pattern that doesn't include sleep. This might sound funny but the ONLY thing I can get to work is to hold my mouth open jsut enough that my body natuarlly yawns which helps. Sometimes I get a heck of a cramp thou in my jaw.
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Yeah, sleep deprivation is the equivalent of being hungover as far as functioning goes (at least for many of us.) It totally amazes me too how normal people can sleep without any "help" from medication!!! How do they do it anyway?? Don't feel guilty about taking a sick day for sleep though, because for bipolars missing sleep can trigger mania. Think of it as a one sick preventive maintenance day, which is better than a full-blown episode that could bring many sick days. Hope you get rested up and feeling better soon.
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