Venting Insomnia making ctb thoughts worse?

[issyishere]

Here I am awake at 3:16am almost 48 hours without rest and I still can't fucking sleep. I just want to feel rested for fucks sake. Anyone else in the same boat?

 

[Nymph]

Yeah I feel you, I've been less active and more miserable because I can't put my thoughts together and I have so little energy. I feel so tired but my body won't let me sleep

 

[issyishere]

Yeah I feel you, I've been less active and more miserable because I can't put my thoughts together and I have so little energy. I feel so tired but my body won't let me sleep

It lowkey helps knowing I'm not alone. It literally is the worst feeling. Not alone are we already in an awful state of mind but our brain doesnt want to fuck off and let us sleep.

 

[fly away]

All the time. It's 6:20 am here and I have had a grand total of about 50 min. of sleep. Same every night for yrs. My normal is constant exhaustion.
Its debilitating and makes everything worse

 

[issyishere]

All the time. It's 6:20 am here and I have had a grand total of about 50 min. of sleep. Same every night for yrs. My normal is constant exhaustion.
Its debilitating and makes everything worse

It almost makes me want to take my SN just to go to sleep forever

 

[fly away]

Same. I just figure I have this one chance and don't want to screw it up this time.

 

[Chemicalcastration20]

Here I am awake at 3:16am almost 48 hours without rest and I still can't fucking sleep. I just want to feel rested for fucks sake. Anyone else in the same boat?

Ever since I got involved with antidepressants.. I have been exactly like this I can actually go 72 hours with no sleep and not feeling the slightest bit tired. Before meds I never had a sleeping problem in my life. Its torture

 

[Nymph]

I'm not always struggling with insomnia, plus I also take meds that help me with it most of the time but lately I haven't been proper with sleeping hygiene and I go to bed at random times and wake up at random times, plus my bunny keeps thumping at night and waking me up. Idk how your sleep hygiene is but making trying to get that sorted might help, I know it's hard tho cause I'm having difficulties too, plus some of the things I can't even control like my annoying (just lately) bunny.

 

[fly away]

Unfortunately I developed a tolerance to my doctor prescribed Benzos (to help me sleep) so unless I raise the dose, they do the opposite and keep me up. Plus I refuse to raise the dose

 

[issyishere]

I'm not always struggling with insomnia, plus I also take meds that help me with it most of the time but lately I haven't been proper with sleeping hygiene and I go to bed at random times and wake up at random times, plus my bunny keeps thumping at night and waking me up. Idk how your sleep hygiene is but making trying to get that sorted might help, I know it's hard tho cause I'm having difficulties too, plus some of the things I can't even control like my annoying (just lately) bunny.

I been trying to do everything to get me exhausted at night, heavy lifting, eating right, turning off screens 30 min before bed and taking mela but nope. I have a doctors appointment soon and wanted to know what you were taking? any idea what they might prescribe me?

Unfortunately I developed a tolerance to my doctor prescribed Benzos (to help me sleep) so unless I raise the dose, they do the opposite and keep me up. Plus I refuse to raise the dose

Could benzos work in the short term or is it generally long term?

 

[Nymph]

I been trying to do everything to get me exhausted at night, heavy lifting, eating right, turning off screens 30 min before bed and taking mela but nope. I have a doctors appointment soon and wanted to know what you were taking? any idea what they might prescribe me?

Oh damn, sorry none of those things worked. That really sucks
I told my psychiatrist that I have trouble sleeping and she prescribed me Quetiapine and the first meds I got worked for me. Sometimes they don't but I think now I can't sleep because of the bad habits. Idk if you take any other meds but they have to work with those so, I don't have much experience when it comes to sleeping meds. Benzos make me sleepy but those are bad long term

 

[fly away]

I been trying to do everything to get me exhausted at night, heavy lifting, eating right, turning off screens 30 min before bed and taking mela but nope. I have a doctors appointment soon and wanted to know what you were taking? any idea what they might prescribe me?

Could benzos work in the short term or is it generally long term?

I would avoid all benzodiazepines. They are supposed to be used very short term, like a couple weeks. The tolerance developed a few months later. I'm on a huge daily dosage and it can take a year or more to taper. Personally, I'd look into melatonin.

 

[fixitinpost]

I been trying to do everything to get me exhausted at night, heavy lifting, eating right, turning off screens 30 min before bed and taking mela but nope. I have a doctors appointment soon and wanted to know what you were taking? any idea what they might prescribe me?

Could benzos work in the short term or is it generally long term?

I struggled with insomnia after a recent breakup. I got prescribed Propiomazine, and it helped me sleep through the night. Now, I don't need it anymore. It's not addictive.

I would avoid benzos.

 

[IAmExhausted]

I'm not always struggling with insomnia, plus I also take meds that help me with it most of the time but lately I haven't been proper with sleeping hygiene and I go to bed at random times and wake up at random times, plus my bunny keeps thumping at night and waking me up. Idk how your sleep hygiene is but making trying to get that sorted might help, I know it's hard tho cause I'm having difficulties too, plus some of the things I can't even control like my annoying (just lately) bunny.

Yeah, I guess sleeping hygiene is very important. However I'm so bad in doing it properly. I go to bed at random times. At night I surf the net (in bed), watch stupid things. In the morning I can't get up because I have nothing really important to do.

I also took Quetiapine for a while. It helped with the sleeping but it was a real downer during the following day.