I can't imagine getting 8 hours of sleep. Sleep has never been right for me, even as an infant I didn't sleep anything close to normal, even normal for a severely colicky baby. I slept when the dr prescribed phenobarbital but that only happened once b/c it scared my mom; I was like 4 months ol and drugged out of my mind.

As long as I've been on psych meds (19 years) we've been trying to get me to sleep normally. Nothing has worked. That's part of why I'm on such a high dose of Seroquel; calm the brain and maybe it will get tired. I was on 10 mg of Zyprexa once along with Seroquel and it didn't even make me yawn. (I don't know how but the drug did nothing for me at all and I was on and off it in a week). I think Geodon helped me sleep (maybe too much) but I got extrapyramidal syndrome on it so that was that.

I had a period of I think nearly 2 years that I slept from 11 pm-4 AM and that was wonderful. It doesn't sound good but it was exactly right for me and was what my body did on its' own (with the liberal help of meds of course). I'm told that doesn't matter and it wasn't enough sleep but at least I wasn't tired all the time. '

I'm a bit anxious about sleep and clozaril. My pdoc told me the dose she wants me on won't be as sedating as Seroquel. I know they'll do other things to help me sleep but it's been really bad on Seroquel so less sedating sounds bad. I guess we'll figure it out. Valium works the best and we tried to get me on that alone in the summer and maybe if I get stablized that would actually work out. I guess I'll find out; that's very low on the things to worry about right now list.