Insomnia is driving me mad

[recluse]

I have only had two hours sleep for the past few days. This morning i didn't get to sleep untill 4 am and i had to get up at 6 am! I can't stop intrusive thoughts going around my mind.

 

[Victor]

I have a problem with sleepiness right now, but sometimes I have got insomnia too. I'm so sleepy and tired throughout the day that I don't know if I'll ever be able to work. That scares me.

 

[Psychedelicious]

I don't have a problem with insomnia right now, or well that is because I have sleeping pills. Insomnia can make someones mind go crazy, I know. My sleeping pills do work for me, but the only problem it that without am I just cannot sleep at all. Last time I ran out, I was up for for nearly 3 nights straight and got really sick. Otherwise though, it has helped me a lot. If it keeps happening you should try to get something for it, because sleepless nights just aren't right!

 

[Infected_Malignity]

i used to have crazy-ass anxiety all my life up until about a month ago. as funny as it sounds, i cured it all by just relaxing. i would always have millions of thoughts swirling around in my head whenever the lights went out and i hit the pillow, but now i just put them on pause. now i can fall asleep in under 10 minutes whenever i want to. i even did it on break today in a room full of people... that is so not like me

 

[xSleepy]

YAY i found a topic about insomnia. For the past week ive been getting no sleep. It went from 9 hours of sleep to 6 to 4 and now down to 2

I have a lot of things on my mind and its driving me crazy. But I also messed up my sleeping pattern or w/e a couple weeks ago. So like, my body and mind are so confused. Im like dead tired right now. I have been for a couple hours. But my body is like... up and ready to go.

I just wanna sleeeeeeep.

 

[lonely_down_under]

I also have similar problem. I sleep for about 3 hours every night since past few weeks. My eyes and my face is starting to get messed up. I'm so frustrated during days. It's hard to concentrate on anything. My handwriting are impossible to read, so having hard time in college too.

 

[A_Void_Ant]

I used to have trouble sleeping.

My cure was not going in my room for sleep until I was ready to sleep. It does me no good to go in bed if I'm not tired.

I stay on the living room couch and watch TV until I am drifting away. Usually I fall asleep and wake up later and go to my room.

Also, I find using my ceiling fan in my room makes it more comfortable and the fan chain taps like a drum and I like that.

And one more thing, the more you try to fall asleep, the harder it is. Try not to roll around to much. Just stay in the same position for as long as you can then when you roll to another side it's comfortable.

I hope that helps anyone.

 

[decadeOfSA]

Yeah I get that fairly often from Xanax XR. It knocks me out in the day and keeps me up at night.

 

[CK23]

I've had this insomnia problem for a long long time... when i'm about to sleep at night i usually have tears cos of all the loneliness i have to cope with everyday and then i fantasize that some really nice person's talking to me and comforting me... that obsessive imagination just keeps on ticking away the clock and when i finally go to sleep it's always past midnight... then in the morning my head is always spinning like i've been pounded by a strong heavy weight boxer...

 

[Edith]

I have only had two hours sleep for the past few days. This morning i didn't get to sleep untill 4 am and i had to get up at 6 am! I can't stop intrusive thoughts going around my mind.

You and me both. I've suffered from insomnia for a few years. Most weeks I'll only sleep a few hours a few nights a week. By the end of the week I'll be so drained and sick that I have to either drink myself to sleep or hit the pharmacy up for some pills. I HATE to do that though, because it's not a cure... but after 5 nights of shitty sleep and "near sleep" (not sleeping, but lying in bed "relaxed" until you hear the alarm and have to get up for work) really fuck with your head and your body. One night of pills, to me, seems like a healthier option.

I, too, can't turn my brain off. It just turns, and turns, and turns, I don't know what I'm even thinking about, but no matter how tired I am I can't shut my head up and just fall asleep! Around, and around all fucking night... sigh.

I know what you're going through and I sincerely hope that it's temporary... insomnia can really fuck you up.... and its not a whole lot of fun either.

When I have insomnia really bad for a long time I don't really feel like me anymore... I almost don't feel alive. I feel like a reanimated corpse... days, nights and weeks become a blur of grey-eyed detached existence.

Don't let it get that far. Get help. Get sleep.

 

[Argamemnon]

When I have insomnia really bad for a long time I don't really feel like me anymore... I almost don't feel alive. I feel like a reanimated corpse... days, nights and weeks become a blur of grey-eyed detached existence.

I've been feeling like that for about three years.

 

[recluse]

Just an update i am sleeping well since my meds have started working.

 

[Hebidoshi]

I'm a really scheduled person and my insomnia really screws me up. I'll just sit there and not be able to fall asleep for hours, a lot of the time its because I'm worrying, or going over in my mind things I need to have done for the next day.

It's not bad, I "go to bed" at around 10:30, get up at 6:45, and normally get 6-7 hrs of sleep. I really don't like sleeping pills. Makes me feel so out of it it bothers me.