[Mountaindewed]

I am a female in my early 20s who has aspergers, PMDD, SAD, and a couple anxiety disorders.

I developed sleep problems in 2012. I get so randomly tired during the day that I can barely make it to the couch before I fall into a deep sleep where I sleep and dream anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours. I also have sleep paralysis, sleep walking/Eating and emergency room type night terrors. I work on the receiving dock of a retail store I start work around 6AM a few times a week.

Lately I'm terrified of being tired and not getting enough sleep. I go to bed at ridiculous hours like 6 and then if I don't fall asleep right away I nervously check my phone every half hour and I then count how many hours I have left. I wake up at 4 to chug an energy drink then fall back asleep until 5 because I've heard it works. I get a coffee at McDonald's and then I drink a Mountain Dew at work and maybe a coke when I get home. I'm just really worried about not getting enough sleep.

I think I might have a sleep disorder. My thearpist suggests I get a sleep study done but my PDoc thinks all my symptoms are anxiety and since I have mental illness I couldn't possibly have anything physically wrong with me. My Pychiatrist is disinterested in my night terrors and would not even acknowledge the fact that I fell down the stairs and ended up in the ER after a night terror. He talked over me and argued for 15 minutes before declaring the session was over but before he did that he tried putting me on Prozac even though he knows I'm losing weight from getting off meds. So no one will take me seriously about the night terrors. I'm just wondering what I should do. I have to be somewhere at 9 tomorrow so I'm scared I won't get enough sleep.

[June55]

Get the sleep study done. It's another piece to the puzzle. Try not to look at the clock perhaps move it to another room. Not sleeping is hard. Being tired the next day is hard. Hugs. I hope you find a way to get some rest soon.