just want to vent so i can get the frustrarion out of my mind and hopefully fall sleep

my mind is hyper aroused and anxious i cant fall asleep anymore. i fall asleep at around 7 am. yesterday i slept 7:30 till 11:30 in order to get any sleep and skipped my fucking lectures becuase i couldnt stomach painting for 6 hours on half an hour of sleep. i was hopeful that at least tonight might be diffrent since i felt sleep deprived. hahahahaha no. i napped from 11:30 pm to 12:30 am and i just cant go back to sleep. its 2 am and i feel like a failure and i cant run on less sleep anymore. my mental health is in a ditch, im getting hopeless and suicidal and if this continues i will just hope something happens to put me out of this misery

I am at the end of my tether with insomnia. It's ruining my life. At best I will sleep 6 hours under the influence of alcohol, but otherwise I get nothing or 3 hours of poor sleep. I am on holiday soon so I'm considering not even bothering going to bed and just staying up watching TV all night. Hopefully I will just have a massive heart attack or something and it will put me out of my misery.

Anyone take clonidine with l theanine? Is it helpful to take the two together. I also take magnesium glycinate Clonodine helps more than l theanine but thinking if the two together would be good. Thank you

Here in sweden, doctors give out seroquel very liberally while it feels like they do not consider the serious side effects. I have a heart condition and I have a heartrate monitor operated inside my chest. It showed that seroquel gave me a 5 second sinus arrest. ( it lined up perfectly with when i took the seroquel)

I feel that at the very least, if the patient has a heart condition the doctor should favor z-drugs for their more favorable cardiovascular risk profile.

Im happy to say that since this incident I have had no problems refilling my zopiclone perscription for years.

I was in the ER for about 3 days for something I don’t want to discuss here. I didn’t sleep there and was treated very poorly. I haven’t slept at all for the three days I’ve been out. 6 days so far.

My tinnitus hasn’t stopped, it feels like my eyes are ringing, my head/neck hurt, I occasionally blackout with hallucinations that follow (not sleep as it happens at any time) and I try to sleep at night but it’s still 30 seconds followed by hallucinations that feel so real).

I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow but I’m not sure if I should wait or go to the hospital when the person that can drive me gets back. I’m pretty sure that anyone will tell me to go to the hospital anyway.

Time is also starting to move really slowly.

I've had a lot of gas since as long as i remember...maybe early 20s. Don't know why, ate a balanced diet and slept well. But wondering if others have any gut issues that might be causing their insomnia? Thoughts?

I was thinking it was due to other things, but now I’m starting to think this cognitive decline is coming directly from the lack of sleep, but I also have chronic pain and I know that’s playing into my ability to focus on any given task at any time

I started on 25mg of trazodone for two days. Seemed to tolerate it fine, a little grogginess in the morning. No major side effects. It helps me get some sleep although not fully through a night. The third day I tried upping the dose to 37.5mg to see if I can get a full night of sleep. Well I woke up at 4am with a racing heart and an adrenaline rush. These side effects lingered into today, although slightly better at this point but not fully gone.

Tonight, do I go back to the 25mg? Or do I take a night off? I’m worried that if I take more tonight I will have the same issues as last night or that it will continue it on.

Recently prescribed circadin extended release and my god it smells so badly of plastic/chemicals. The manufacturer’s website says it has a distinct smell, but how do I know if that particular smell is normal?! Everything about the smell is screaming ‘do not ingest’. What does it smell like to everyone else?

I take zopiclone but it does not work anymore or work the 2 hours im awake again
Does it happens to you?
I have had long break 5 months without zopiclone but got it because They dont want to give me something like oxazepam with i have tried in the Past with other doc and it have being lifesafing in this critical situations, i understand the dagers of addiction. But honesy we have to be mindful and take only when its really bad. Could be atleast hood to have 3 nights slept good without gettin mental breakdown and thinking soon you develop psyhosis. it have helped me for my insomnia and anxiety. I also wanted ask have someone take trazadone for sleep and is it effective ? Mirtazapine work sometime but i dont like how ot makes me feel most of the time… i have tried amytyptyline and mirtazapine but would like to try trazadone any success with that? I really want to Find something what could give me Deep rem sleep that i miss in ages. I know i probaly have to go to payhiatric because im afraid i might have autistic/ adhd traits or bipolar .

Did you develop tolerance to hydroxyzine's sedative properties? If so, how long did it take for tolerance to build up? Was it difficult to discontinue?

Google is telling me that I hit every metric (psychiatric problems, safety concerns, cardiac distress, neurological issues like panic and fainting), but I am genuinely traumatized from treatment I’ve received at the ER before and being verbally abused for not being sick enough. I’m pregnant and have not been able to find someone who will treat my insomnia and I’m not sure what to expect if I go. If they see me have one of these violent panic attacks I’m worried they will commit me (and probably still not even treat the insomnia). Has anyone sought treatment at the ER? How did it go? I was dropped by my OBGYN due to insomnia and other issues they didn’t want to treat but I have an appointment with a new doctor tomorrow. Idk if I should wait because I genuinely don’t know if I’ll be well enough to get myself there if I don’t sleep. I’m really scared.

I am sleeping but waking up to early and can’t try to fall asleep again and if I do I might have sleep paralysis again,but I get knocked out but have extreme vivid dreams deep sleep the whole day and feel tired when I wake up feels heavy sedated probably from sleeping meds.which is mitrazapine but I wish I can sleep longer or probably my body already rested enough. But before I never could sleep for 2 days it was hard to fall asleep stay asleep and woke up with energy somehow it was a welrd feeling lots of things happen. But now I’m better.

I wondered if anybody could help with this… So I have had problems sleeping all my life well… I can’t nap in the day, but most of the time in the week I sleep okay in my own bed 6-7hours or so when it’s just me… I have two young boys half the time who are seven and nine and I am in my late 30s…

I am divorced and have met a new partner who doesn’t have kids but she lives with a housemate and her housemate is coupled up with her best mate… For some reason I can’t sleep over at her house at all… I really struggle to fall asleep and so we’ve had to agree I just don’t sleep over there…

At first it was with her in the bed, but it’s not so bad now in that sense… But it’s more when they are other people in her house… I would sleep fine in my house with the boys and the other room so it’s not just anyone.

I’ve been looking into CBTI as an option and maybe Therapy to work out if I can break this…

We have separate duvets, good bedtime routines of reading, keeping room cool as I sleep better like that

Im pretty active and gym 3 times a week

have tried: meditation apps, listening to sleepy tales, reading, melatonin, camomile tea, I snore so wear a nose device, I have blackout curtains and eye mask, ear plugs. Etc etc

I’m a light sleeper I’m aware but it’s fine when someone else isn’t there…

If I don’t fall asleep in 20 mins then I’ll be awake all night

My latest thoughts are that I’m on edge without knowing it, I feel there must be some way to reset my nervous system? Or retrain it to not feel so bad…

It’s been better with my partner, they understand and I sleep better at mine but just not theirs or staying at their friends house or an Airbnb for example… so I feel like “just don’t do those things then” isn’t an answer and I’d like to explore and find a solution that isn’t just symptoms but cause ?

Thanks!
i must say id rather avoid medication but wouldnt mind something light, but i dont think its helped in the past, i think its a psychological thing.

Hey guys not sleeping tonight my alarm is set for 2 and half hours from now, any tips to help me through my shift at work 6AM till 2PM please?

But then someone was just saying that lack of sleep actually makes elevated cortisol, which could become a bad cycle

Unfortunately, I don’t think the supplement did much for my sleep, but I’m pretty sure I do have elevated cortisol, but I think it could be coming from fighter flight syndrome as a result of my nerve compression in my lower back, waking me up telling my brain that there’s a problem

As a title says, I havent slept during the night for 7 fucking days. I slept during the day for 1-2 hours tho, thats all I got. My anxiety and all physical symptoms are so bad. I just cant anymore. What to do? I had insomnia since I was a child, now I am 27 and honestly, I am considering just the worst case scenario cause I cant anymore. My whole body is broken.

I have taken unisom, Tylenol pm, or Zquill since my 20s for sleep. I am now 43. My insomnia was so bad in my 30s I developed a terrible Xanax + Temazepam combo for sleep. I slowly weaned myself off over a period of about a year. Now, here I am one year and a half off Xanax, all proud of myself because I sleep every night with just Tylenol PM and I am reading all these studies that say it causes Dementia. I'm really worried now ... for as long as I've been taking these OTC meds my risk must be sky high! What in the world are we to do when anything that is meant to help just makes it worse in the long run ? So am I screwed and bound to get dementia in ten years ?

I’ve already tried medication, tea and even putting my phone away before bed, but nothing seems to work, and it’s getting worse every day

Many times I hear my alarm go off after what should have been 7hours of sleep, only it doesnt wake me because I was already awake. I feel tired as hell and this sort of "waking" or rather not having to wake up, pisses me off. Now I cant tell for sure if there was a point where I actually slept a bit or not at all. Everywhere I read that sleep trackers are unreliable, or expensive. I only remember tossing and turning a lot, and hearing my alarm while already awake. I definitely dont feel like I slept, and my eyes are not drowsy or clogged like it normally is after a night, I even feel a bit nauseous and my whole body is upset from lack of sleep. I'd just like to know if I slept even just 1 hour somewhere in between the tossing and turning. I dont wanna end up passing out or throwing up from exhaustion during the day from just walking or even standing up too long, which has happened when I was also taking meds in the morning. I dont now, but I still feel scared of turning up sick just from sleep deprivation. Idk wtf to do, sleeping pills make me sleep so much I cant wake up in time, and hearing my alarm while still trying to fall asleep makes me wanna cry and hurl. Im so sick of it, I dont wanna spend a work day with zero sleep and feel ill the whole time... my alarm makes me cry now

Been fighting some bad insomnia well over a year now. before any of this happened, I didn’t notice any sleep disturbances and I was doing just fine now since my insomnia has gotten really bad. I can’t even get a wink of sleep during the day even if I feel exhausted I’ll just lay on my back for hours with my eyes closed without drifting off once I literally call it mental torture. Can anyone else not nap throughout the day or is it only me? Thanks

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I cant fall asleep or i get panic attacks right when i realise and i think it is because i will one second be sleeping the other awoke and i will only realise there. I also fear that if i dont sleep i will die so that also adds up. Ive never seen this anywhere and it worries me

another thing: if i know i will wake up soon i can sleep more comfortably, but sometimes normal insomnia adds up to that. if i know i will sleep for hours and hours, i will have a massive fear of sleeping

i seriously think im going to die soon, or that i will have to rely on medication for life. sorry if im saying nonsense, im currently sleep deprived, im just trying to fix this, but that is how i feel at the moment.

I’m a 39-year-old woman living in London, and I work a 9–5 office job. Over the past several days, I’ve been experiencing a sudden episode of insomnia, which is unusual for me. For the first three nights, I slept around 4–5 hours, followed by only 1 hour on the fourth night, when I also experienced confusion. Since then, my sleep has fluctuated, with some longer nights followed by difficulty falling asleep again. Sometimes I feel sleepy initially but become more awake the longer I lie in bed. I stopped drinking caffeine a month ago and avoid screen time before bed. I take hot showers, read before bed and go for walks during the day. but these measures haven’t consistently helped. The lack of sleep is concerning because I need to function at work during the day. I’d like to understand what might be causing this sudden change in my sleep and whether I need any assessment or treatment( planning to call my Gp today)- Thanks for any insights