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Insomnia, anyone

deleted_user
deleted_user
Okay. it's 12:22 MST and i'm wide awake!!!!! normally i wouldn't worry, but this is part of an ongoing pattern. Fortunately my night terrors have stopped. but i still want to be awake and buzzing all night. at other times, i drop off cozily, but wake up three to four hours after i fall asleep--the ceiling remains boring until the sun comes up. then i drop back off.

anyone find anything long-term effective? (that doesn't make you drowsy and groggy the next day, that is.) the less pharmaceutical the suggestion, the better.

PS: much of my original trauma took place at night.
deleted_user
deleted_user
i like mood music ( no words) and hot teas, like chamomile or peppermint, sleepy time it helps although when I wake up I'm usually up for awhile before I go back to sleep.
deleted_user
deleted_user
maybe there should be an insomnia chat line. (of course, it would meet at night.) i used to take some kind of medication prescribed to me (can't even remember the name of it now; i tossed them pretty quick). but it made me so hazy the next day, i couldn't function. i just had a simple job that basically consisted of trimming plants, etc. half the time, i couldn't figure out what i was supposed to be doing.

i didn't know there were meds that didn't make you all hazy and groggy the next day. things aren't so bad now--i don't really have a life, and i don't need to adhere to any kind of schedule. i can nap.

but when i do get "back out there," maybe i'll consider sleep meds.
guess it all boils down to filling out the health insurance application i've been avoiding like the plague....
catwoman30
catwoman30
You guys that are able to take drugs and/or sleep at all are so lucky. I have had terrible insomnia for yrs. and can no longer takes any meds as my system can't handle them. I am trying different supplements which help with the panic attacks and they do relax me. There have been nights where I have been suicidal and 2 nites ago I was up researching on the computer the best ways to kill yourself. I did try with pills one time. I hope that I never feel this badly again. I never feel like I have slept. My boyfriend tells me that he hears me snoring but I don't recall or feel like I have slept. I am really scared because I see no end in site. It is very dangerous for a person not to sleep; it really affects your brain. I have felt many times like I was going to have a nervous breakdown. I have been to many docs for chronic illnesses and they can't figure out what to do with me. I just don't see how I can go on like this. I am so dysfunctional during the day and can't plan on doing anything with anybody. My boyfriend is the one who keeps me alive. I manage to do a few things with him until I get so tired that I have to lie down. I feel so sick and so desperate. I feel like there is no help for me. Sorry to be such a downer. I would like to be able to talk to people on Skype at nite when I can't sleep. Does anyone do this? It is so lonely at nite. I hate to wake my boyfriend up all the time.