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Dec 09, 2015, 06:39 PM
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I had a doc one time tell me sleep for you is really important and wow sleep can be a game changer
Last week there was a couple of days I didn't sleep and into the second night it was like BAM loud loud radio in my head, hearing music outside my head, paranoid but giddy. I was thinking about this photograph I really like on the Internet and I started thinking how great it was and then I thought "I took that photograph" and was pretty proud of myself until a bit later when I was like huh??? Why did I think that I didn't take that famous picture! Needless to say I made sure to pound sleep the next couple of days. I think for the first time in my life I am realizing how important stability is and can't go crazy again I'm feeling good on the effexor but is that causing such an easy shift into symptoms?
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Dec 09, 2015, 07:03 PM
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Sleep is my friend. Effexor might flip ur mood. Just get ur 8 hours in no matter what. I recommend washing ur nightly AAP down w some Ovaltine.
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Dec 09, 2015, 08:20 PM
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I love my Effexor. It sure can do symptom changes like that. Isn't sleep wonderful too
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Dec 09, 2015, 08:26 PM
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Mmmmm mm seroquel and ovaltine is how I roll!
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Dec 09, 2015, 08:28 PM
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Yeah this effexor is killing it in the depression and anxiety department like wow!!! Just gotta get those zzzzzzz
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Dec 09, 2015, 08:32 PM
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I am terribly sensitive to lack of sleep.
I feel awful without it. Grouchy, depressed, etc.
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Dec 09, 2015, 11:06 PM
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The effects of sleep and sleep deprivation both amaze me. The first time I was hospitalized was because I hadn't slept in 3 or 4 days. My mind literally started to un-hinge. I'm glad you got some much needed rest.
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Dec 10, 2015, 07:57 AM
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Right I mean sleep is a huge thing for ANUBODY but is a huge issue for people with mood disorders I wondered about the effexor though because I have not slept a couple nights before and didn't get so wacked out so fast lol
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Dec 10, 2015, 04:31 PM
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Ugh, lack of sleep is like a kick in the teeth to me. Glad to hear you are getting some sleep.
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Dec 10, 2015, 05:29 PM
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Sleep definitely plays an important role in stability. That being said, I'm a pretty big hypocrite since I often stay up way too long while hypomanic. It's not even that I can't sleep - I just don't want to, when I'm feeling so great. I feel it contributes to how hard I crash, when I do crash into depression again. I hope you continue getting some more sleep.
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Dec 10, 2015, 06:58 PM
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Oh hh I know .trust me I had to rationalize. With myself that if I didn't sleep it wouldn't just be symptoms....sooner or later it would turn into a full blown episode. Just until recently I craved/was addicted to mania. But I spent the last couple years really unstable .I'm actually on something that is working so I'm not stable depressed bit stable good. I'm beginning to like life over here on the other side with my feet on the groundel I'm here I'm reliable I'm steady I can touch myself as a solid being and say here I am My family needs me here but I sure miss the clouds sometimes
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