I'm not sure where the best place for this question is but as I have a BPD diagnosis I guess it should go in this forum...
Do any of you find yourselves rocking backwards and forwards for no apparent reason, particularly late at night?
I've started doing it when I get into bed. I've been on mirtazapine for a few days (to be taken at bedtime) and I understand it can cause some agitation as an initial side-effect. So the past few nights, I take it, I get into bed, and within a few minutes I'm sitting on the edge of my bed, just rocking backwards and forwards. It lasts 30-40mins. Then I go to sleep.
I have nothing really to be anxious ABOUT - so to my mind, as far as I can gauge it, I'm not fretting over anything specific. My parents are great and very supportive, my friends are pretty amazing, my boss says "Take as long as you need, come in and see us if you like, just be nice to yourself and we miss you", and I spoke to my credit card company this week and have arranged a drastically reduced payment arrangement.
I am, admittedly, coming out of a major depression that followed hard on the heels of a hypomanic episode. But at night, I just seem to become quite agitated. I can't settle.
Any answers?
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CJ
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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