The Insomniac's Thread

[shatteredoflights]

Oh no...I think it's starting again. The long stretch of an insomnia period...

[Brikka]

i can't take this anymore.

-the inability/difficulty in falling asleep

-the tossing and turning all night long

-the waking up before the ass crack of dawn unable to get back to sleep

-physically feeling like shit b/c of lack of sleep

-irritability because of it

-how my concentration is about 5 seconds and my brain feels distorted, unable to make sense.

i'm on meds. i do a lot better than i would without them. as in, i can actually sleep. the meds aren't enough. anxiety keeps me up a lot and can be horrendous. i know that going to bed hungry is making it worse. i need to get some exercise, i slept sooooo much better when i was doing it.

this will get better, it has to. in the meantime it is causing misery.

[gnosis]

^
Can you ask your doctor for something stronger for sleep?

I'm also hungry... but I ate a lot today! I guess I will eat anyway; I have a bad habit of eating at night

I'm not exactly an insomniac right now, but it's almost midnight and I haven't gone anywhere and I'm not doing anything, so I might as well go to sleep.
I need to get up semi-early (for me) tomorrow.
I'm not sleepy though.

[Mike_Bson]

I have pretty bad insomnia. I don't know why. It's like I can only sleep every other day, on even days I stay up all night, nothing I can do about it, and on odd days sleep fine from how tired I was from the day before.

[nevergoodenough]

Originally Posted by Brikka

i can't take this anymore.

-the inability/difficulty in falling asleep

-the tossing and turning all night long

-the waking up before the ass crack of dawn unable to get back to sleep

-physically feeling like shit b/c of lack of sleep

-irritability because of it

-how my concentration is about 5 seconds and my brain feels distorted, unable to make sense.

i'm on meds. i do a lot better than i would without them. as in, i can actually sleep. the meds aren't enough. anxiety keeps me up a lot and can be horrendous. i know that going to bed hungry is making it worse. i need to get some exercise, i slept sooooo much better when i was doing it.

this will get better, it has to. in the meantime it is causing misery.

This is me...every part of it. I can't sleep and it ruins my days. I get nothing done, my body aches and yet...my anxiety will not let me sleep.

My mind just races and races ...one terrible thought to the next....and my doc doesn't want to give me sleep meds....what to do....

[Kayella]

^yes.

I am so sick of getting pissy when the boy whose bed I am lying in can't stay awake for another second and knows that I can't stand falling asleep with my own brain so he feels bad for leaving me alone in awakeland and I feel worse for making him feel bad and then I extraremember all the things that keep me awake and I get analytical and then my brain narrows in on the most horrifying of them and then I hate insomnia more and then I can't stop myself from crying and then when I can't stNd it anymore I start shaking and it wakes him up and he feels worse and asks me what he can do and I feel worse because he can't do anything because he's a normal person whose body understands that it needs to sleep and is already protesting from trying to keep up with my inhumane awakeness.