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Old Feb 21, 2020, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by bluebicycle View Post
My sleep is good. It's a little broken (I woke up 4 times), but I'm still getting an adequate amount.

I think I slept from 9pm until 4am? That's a solid 7 hours, which is good for me. I dislike getting 10 hours a night on rexulti. It's too much!! I used to get 7 a night prior to starting meds, so 7 is my "actual" normal. (I would go to bed at 9pm and wake up at 4am sharp without an alarm. Did that everyday since I was 9... Then it all changed when I started meds at 24. )

My therapist insists that I am sometimes hypomanic/manic even when I have "normal" sleep (like 7-10 hours), but I don't know about that. I'm sure she'll tell me today if she thinks so, though. But I guess there was one time I was getting 11 hours a night and I was speaking rapidly and tangentially, in a manic but almost psychotic manner (according to her). She said she couldn't follow me at all and that I was saying bizarre, nonsensical things. I had no idea at the time. She told me at the end of the appt that she was "concerned," and I was like, "concerned about what? huh???" (I was talking about how I wondered what would happen if a cow and a goat had a baby, and I made cheese out of the baby's milk... should I open a pizza shop? Yeah, I was not well... lol.)

So I dunno. Sleep might not mean anything. We'll see today in about an hour and I'll update this thread.
Hi bluebicycle. Before I was on a good medication mix, I would indeed have notable issues with my sleep, for the length of my hypomanic/manic episode. However, on my current mix, I can have what I call "mood upswings" during the daytime, and then after taking my sedating evening medications sleep a reasonable amount of time. If my "mood upswing" is quite severe, maybe my sleep goes down to 3 to 5 hours at night, but during milder ones, I can often still get 7 hours. I don't necessarily call these experiences hypomanic or manic episodes because they don't always meet the full length criteria, but occasionally they do. My morning medications aren't very sedating. It is usually between 12 noon and 6 pm that I sometimes have these "mood upswings" that I referred to.

I don't know if what I describe applies to you, but maybe.
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