[GeeN]

I want to change my sleep habits. I go to bed early only to wake up early, eat something, stay up, and go back to sleep and sleep for a whole day only to repeat that cycle. I go to bed at 10-12 midnight, which is early for me. Then I wake up around 2-3 am only to stay up and do something else. Then I go back to bed around 5 am but it takes a while for me to get back to sleep only to wake up around 2 pm or sometime after. I feel like I miss half a day and I take medication to go to sleep. I know it is not uncommon so I wonder if this is a symptom of mania?

[Moose372]

I dunno but I am doing that right now. Part of the problem is taking the sleeping pills once it is really late so you can actually sleep- then they make you sleep longer.

[unpredictable]

Try taking your medicine for sleep at say 9pm every night no matter when you are going to bed. Also, you may want to be in the dark starting at about 11pm. If you get more consistent it may help.

If these things aren't helping than maybe you need to be taking something different.

I take trileptal at night. It is not a sleeping pill. It is an anticonvulsent like lamictal and also used for bipolar. It really helps me sleep. I take lamictal in the morning and trileptal at night.