I haven't fallen asleep in 5 days

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kim c

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Hmmm....

Well, for one, Seroquel is much better than Xanax. Trazadone is also good for sleep. Yes, all three are prescription meds, but if you go to the doctor with sleep issues and anxiety issues like what it SOUNDS like you have....I'm sure you'll get something to help you. This is, of course, assuming that you are not a meth head.

People with bipolar disorder often have the symptoms you are talking about, varying between mania (which includes sleep difficulties) and depression.
 
yes, it is. but, if controlled it isnt as addictive as people say. Just ween yourself on and take small doses. If you tell your doctor that you cant sleep and have anxiety, Im sure he or she will prescribe it to you.

if you don't have health insurence, Im sure a free clinic will give you a prescription. they might even give you a few boxes of samples. Often they do that.

KC, Seroquel?
 
Try listening to calm music or turn on a fan. It is noise, but usually it can calm you down and start the "dream" process.


In my opinion, anyway, I don't feel like finding any scientific proof or whatever.
 
i sleep too much. :/
on the rare occassion that i can't get to sleep though, i just lie in my bed in the dark and close my eyes. no noise, no light.
even if i'm there for hours, i don't get up.
just keep your eyes SHUT.
 
I thought I was the only person who slept with the lights on and the tv and radio and all that shit. I didn't know that other people from cities do that too.

Which I was prepared to say if you can't sleep and no medication works, and you can't do the whole silent thingy. Then what you can do is this. Find a noise of some sort that is constant. it has to be repetetive and can't slow down or speed up. after you find it, just close your eyes and focus on that noise and eventually you will sleep.
 
Had a period when I had a hard time sleeping too.

Check out this link with a lot of great tips: well.com/~mick/insomnia/

what really worked for me though was regular, high-intensity workout - meaning running for as long as you can (at least 30 minutes) and until you feel you are gonna die or your heart is gonna expload. Yup - do this every 2nd day and its almost guaranteed you are gonna sleep. Also try going extremely early to bed, like 9 pm, because then you dont have that feeling that you HAVE to fall asleep and this is not healthy and etc. A last suggestion would be, if you cant sleep, get up and do something like play WOW, guildwars or role play gaming of some sort, and keep doing quests and using your time until you feel tired.


The thing about it is, when you have insomnia you're never really awake but never really asleep. yup i know how badly is sucks :/
 
duh? expensive and hard-to-get.. plus i dont think its a good idea combining ecstacy with an amphetamine

easier solution: do an overdose of either Rohypnol or GHB. Valium, Codeine or Ketamine will also work to an extent.. (depends on how hard time you have having falling asleep ;)
 
im with superhero on this one, high intensity workouts, thatll do the trick, but you need to do it till you are exhausted and you cant do anymore, if you just work out for like 1 minute then like they had said before your gonna be all pumped and energized, but if you work out or run till you cant any longer you will go to bed and knockout. (:
 
Figured out why* I can't sleep. No I don't do drugs, yes I tryed just about every method concieved(Except all those fucken medications) to go to sleep. Mother got pissed at me for not sleeping so she DID give me something to make me drowsy.
It didn't work.
But ah lets see. I went a WHOLE week without sleeping *At all* But about 3 days ago I fell asleep...for like an hour..and the next day same thing...still thats not really good.
I still don't feel tired. And when I said I fell asleep...I was just drowsing..in between sleep and awareness...thats not really good I suppose...well at least I don't feel tired :)
Guess moms gonna have to get me something to make me sleep. Yes I play games drink coke and tea. BUT IT HAS NEVER affected me in the slightest before.

Why can't I sleep? Well I was thinking about that a while ago...and I guess its because of that really nice dream I had. Yes. Nice. If you guys want me to elaborate on it, just tell me to. But its a long..screwed up story.:sad:
 
Man, I did my Senior Project on not sleeping for 4 days straight, and HOLY SHIT, it was crazy. I kept hearing noises, and then kept seeing this little brown furry thing crawl by me out of the corner of my eye. Then when it was fianlly over, I had been sleeping for about 30 mins., when my mom starts hammering on my bedroom door screaming, "Taylor? TAYLOR?!?!?!?! We're going to Vegas!!! TAYLOR!!!!!!???" And i was just like Shut the fuck up woman!!! ARHHGHGHGGHHHG!!! Anyway, no sleep for extended periods of time is CRRAAAZZYYYY!!!!!!
 
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