[franklds01]

Hey all! I think I’m having a mixed episode/hypomanic episode conglomerate thingy. My big problem right now is sleep…I’m not getting any but am not manic enough to not be tired. I am so exhausted and can barely keep my eyes open during the day. But as soon as my head hits the pillow, my brain decides it’s time to start doing 200mph. It’s the whole flight of ideas thingy.

I want to sleep but can’t because I keep thinking about how I should start a dessert catering company or how I should travel to Dubrovnik and how I should take a class on drawing or photoshop on Udemy and how I should get my COMPTIA A+ certification, and so on and so forth. My brain does that for hours. I can’t focus during the day because of it and more importantly I can’t sleep at night because of it.

Any tips on how to get my brain to shut up? I really don’t want to take any sleeping medications as I have to be up early every day and noticed that with sleeping meds I tend to be sedated long enough to sleep through my alarm, so I’m looking for ways to calm myself down without meds.

And for reference, I’m on 900mg of Trileptal and 80mg of Strattera.

[wildflowerchild25]

I’ve used sleep meditations on YouTube when I was hypomanic over the summer. They really helped. There’s a lot to choose from.