Had really bad insomnia for about 5 mos (1-1 1/2 hours of sleep a night). Was hypomanic (bipolar 1) but LOVING it--felt so much energy, enthusiasm, etc. Not tired at all & didn't tell my pdoc about it as I had been stable for 5 YEARS & was only checking in periodically. Anyway, after a lovely 5 mos. I suddenly crashed & overdosed (haven't done that in many years), ended up in the ER, etc., etc.

A year & a half later I'm still not recovered; sleeping a little better; usually about 3-4 hours for a few nights; then I'll go for 5-6 one night. Take a bunch of stuff to promote sleep as well as treat the bipolar, but sleep just doesn't seem to get regulated. I fall asleep hard (practically knocked out & I do have the "sleepwalking" effect where I can talk on the phone, sound coherent & have no memory of it the next day), but I wake up with a kind of internal high adrenaline feeling--all revved up. I am seeing pdoc every 2 weeks & still working on meds & have gone back into therapy.

Right now my pdoc puts down mixed episode--moderate for my dx on the ins. form.--Suzy