Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
It's come for me again. Horrified that I won't sleep. I dream, but I don't feel myself wake up or fall asleep to begin with. Around this time last year I went five days without even fifteen minutes of sleep due to anxiety which I didn't know I had at the time and being scared of not sleeping. I don't know what I'll do if that happens again or if it's longer. I'm going to sort of a crisis center tomorrow because my psychiatric appointment isn't until the fifteenth of August, I believe. There's outpatient help and inpatient, and I'm afraid they'll admit me because I have a bad suicidal streak and the woman on the phone told me she thinks I fit the criteria, and my doctor wanted me to go to the hospital about a week ago and I didn't due to feeling too uncomfortable with it. I'm afraid to try the impatient service because I CANNOT sleep other places besides my own home and in my bed. They can give me klonopin or anything else, but in order to sleep there for nights on end I'd have to be drugged up like a horse, and I don't mean just one or two pills. I mean way more medication than they'd be willing to give me. I'm scared. I just want to sleep and not be anxious about it. I want to not be depressed.
Advice is welcome.
Advice is welcome.
Maybe most important is to continue to learn about coping mechanisms for anxiety and stress. There are many good ways to cope. Coping is something we all do every day. Learn these methods from your doctor or counselor and be diligent about practicing them every day.
And of course your sleep will be helped by all the usual things that you already know about ... such as daily exercise, avoiding caffeine later in the day, keeping a regular sleep schedule, etc.
Hang in there!