I get paranoia/psychosis at night a lot, based on fears that have been unfounded for some time. Last night was a bad one. I was hearing sounds that weren't real and interpreting real sounds as threats. Like the wind. Every time it shook my place or made sounds I'd think someone was there to murder me. I hate it so much. I hardly slept all night and now i'm wasted the next day. If I'm in bed and it all starts up I get up and go to the lounge room, turn on the TV, put the sound low and just lay there with the TV burbling away on low. It soothes me, even if I don't go off to sleep. If I do go to sleep and wake up later, often I'm sleepy enough, wound down enough, to go back to bed and go back to sleep. Not much success last night! I'm Bipolar as well as CPTSD with psychotic features so my mood fluctuations affect all this too.
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