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Originally Posted by *Beth*
 Thank you, GoGo.
Relaxation exercises are a great idea. Despite all my years of learning them I usually forget them the moment I'm under stress. The exception is breathing. Nice, full, healthy breathing is so important and I almost always remember that.
I had taken the Seroquel the night before my lunch date because I wanted to sleep well. The problem was that I was left with that "drugged" feeling.
You're correct - it is okay to be tired after being out with a friend. I tend to be hard on myself and forget things like what's normal and what is not normal.
I'm sorry your friends are dead now. Losing life-long friends is very harsh. One of mine died last year and I still grieve that loss. She was so dear to me.
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I think that we forget what we have learned when we don't focus actively on them. That is my experience.
I try to do the recommended duties for persons with some sort of MI: Regular life, healthy eating, regular physical exercises, go to bed at the same time each (I am so lucky that Mirtazapin one hour before bedtime usually works for me - it was really dangerous in the start because I became suicidal, but that was only in the beginning. My p-doc took away my sleeping pills that I had used for years and put me at Mirtazepin instead).
Every morning I try to remember to do physical exercices in the living room, repeat my toolbox and do self hypnosis on how to cope. Without this repetition every morning I would have forgotten to use my coping strategies. That is my experience.
I am so sorry on your behalf that you do not have medication that helps you with sleep on a regular base.
Have you tried to use relaxation exercises at bedtime, to be "lulled" into sleep while doing relaxion?
