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longnow: How did you recover sleep
patterns?

I just let it happen as it happened. It probably took 2-3 years to stabilize. While it did that, it was a bit all over the place with bouts of heavy sleeping interspersed with insomnia. During the stages I was having a lot of insomnia I was also still having a lot of nightmares. I suspect the two were related.

I didn't use any sleeping aids, although in hindsight I think it would have been beneficial to have exercised regularly in some fashion, even if it was just walking for an hour. Having a job also helped because it imposed a schedule upon me. However, there were also days when I'd be at work having only had 2 or 3 hours sleep the night before.

I still get some voices but only when I am spooked
by a noise or person.

Do you identify trauma as having played a role in your experience?