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Originally Posted by ~Christina
I honestly have tried practically anything and everything over especially the last 10 years.
Whether I’d be an actual sleep med Or AP, AD if they actually do work they burn out within a couple months at most.
Was another reason I wanted a psych Med long vacation in hopes that one day something might help.
Right now I just take a 1mg Xanax ,I was taking 2 and often taking a gabapentin 900mg while I was on oral steroids, it helped me get an hour or 2 every couple days.
I can’t tell you how many times as a small child my mother would take the leather strap to me if she found me awake at night. I just could not sleep but I learned very quickly to appear sleeping if I heard her get up in the night
I have never once sleep more than 6 days in a row, and that’s getting 4-5 hours a night at most. I honestly wouldnt know how to act if I did sleep like most people roaming the earth.
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My heart goes out to you. I cannot imagine taking beatings in my own bed, for failing to sleep..
It sounds like you're a candidate for "sleep anxiety," which works against any approach to sleeping?
I am told I have this (by a sleep specialist). Mine is from my father chronically having very violent episodes throughout the night(s). It's quite disheartening. I do not consciously feel any anxiety; there's more of a reticence to let go and to sleep. It feels like a very unsafe thing thing to do. :I also have night terrors.
I do believe it's possible to overcome any "sleep anxiety," should you have any. I just have not yet found an approach which works for me yet.
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Edit: It's likely pain is also interfering with sleep.?