I'm loosing control over SLEEP!!!

<<<<Depression: 28>>>>
<<<<Mania: 17>>>>
<<<<Anxiety: 37>>>>
<<<<Sleep: 10 (9 hours)>>>>
<<<<Disorder: Bipolar Disorder (Depressed phase)>>>>
<<<<Journal Subject: Sleeping problems driving me insane>>>>

<<<<Journal Note: I seem to have my days and nights mixed up. I get very tired before it's time for bed, then I can't go to sleep for hours after bedtime has come and gone. I can't go to bed until around 2 and then I would sleep all day if my son allowed me. IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!>>>>

Seems like I can't sleep to save my life and it's about to drive me insane! I'm back to wanting to sleep all day and stay up all night. The OTC sleep aids aren't working. I keep telling myself I need to do my yoga and/or mediation, but somehow never do them.

When I try to fall asleep at bedtime I feel like there are bugs crawling all over me. (Which where very well could be because they seem to keep finding a way into the house). Something starts itching - like my back or my feet. My legs become restless or feel like they are about to cramp.

I've snapped at my 5 yr old for trying to wake me up because he wanted breakfast and the TV on. Now we're fighting.

The mood tracker says I'm in a depressed phase. I would agrue I'm in a mixed.

Wish someone would take my son so I could put msyelf into a drug induced sleep for the next 24 hours. Family is great to have when they are there when you need them, but when they aren't

Right there with you... I couldn't have described it better myself.

Comforting I'm not in this alone, but at the same time makes me wonder if there is any help for us.

I think there is. I am waiting to hear from my p-nurse about this issue. I am hoping she has some advice for me.

I'm really struggling with sleep at the moment...
so I've cut back to 1 coffee in the morning... no sugar in the evening, I do have drugs to take but don't usually take them... I find that if they are strong enough to knock me out when I'm that restless, then they make me dopey the next day...
if I can't sleep within 30 min, I get up, write down whats on my mind, walk around, maybe have a shower, a drink, stretch arms, legs, neck, back etc and then go to bed all over again...
I don't have kids, but I'm living with my sister and her daughter at the moment and it makes the sleep problems so much worse cos you can't roll over and grab and extra 1/2 hour... I really feel for you guys...
hope it helps

I've sometimes been battling with sleep. None-the-less, I wake up incredibly tired in the morning. I have really good sleeping meds, but they also make me dopey the next day.
And my active dreams have come back, which means I spend too much time in REM sleep and wake up very tired the next morning, as my brain has had no time to rest.

Ah well its a nite of insomnia for me as well darn up side. I took sleeping meds tonite and am still up hours later. I feel for ya too. Hope you can get good rest.

I slept last night. Still didn't want to get up when my son jumped on me, but I slept.

My son got himself ready for bed, so I didn't have to wake up fighting with him. Then he was totally ready (and happy) to go to bed when I told him to as long as I went with him. I rubbed his feet like he asked then climbed in my bed. He wanted his feet rubbed some more so he climbed in my bed, but returned to his spot in my floor where he's stayed the past two nights. (That's where he sleeps when he insists on "spending the night" with me.)

I felt my brain attempt to wake up. I started breathing deeply and thinking to myself "Breathe sleep in, awakeness out". I believe that's how I fell asleep.

awesome bussiemommie !!!!!!
I'm happy to say I slept well last night too!!!!! finally....