I've been recently discharged from inpatient, after a worsening of my chronic depression. The only change in my medication was to add Restoril for sleep. They tried me on Lamictal, but I broke out in a rash and they discontinued it fast.

Since then, this is my third night in a row (It's almost 3:30 AM here) with no sleep, Restoril not helping. Even more alarming, although auditory hallucinations have never been a problem for me before, I have begun hearing things. Today I heard my husband's voice at the front door, and his key turning in the lock. Later I heard him on the computer playing games. I even heard that little Pogo "jackpot spin" melody, clear as a bell. Nobody was on the computer. This was about two hours before he came home. I was alone in the house. As far as I know, our cats haven't learned to play Pogo games.

After he was home, I heard the phone ringing when it wasn't. The reason I wondered about it was, we have one of those four-handsets-one-base setups, and we keep the ringer turned off in the bedroom so it doesn't wake my husband up early in the morning. But that's the one I heard ringing, not any of the other handsets. Just to be sure, I asked my husband if the phone was ringing, and he hadn't heard anything. And yes, the ringer was still turned off.

I'm not asking if I should be worried. I'm asking, HOW worried? Is this an emergency?

Could just sleep deprivation be doing this?