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Echo the Sun wrote:i've been suffering from insomnia for the last several years. it's just been getting worse and worse. the only thing that works for me are sleeping pills, but i don't want to live my life from pill to pill. they're dangerous and only meant to get you back on a sleep schedule, not be taken in perpetuity. and it sucks to be tired every moment of every day. my thinking has been affected. my short-term memory is horrible. i can't even speak well anymore. i don't have the energy to do anything
Aerial Boundaries wrote:fujee wrote:Not so much angry, but incredibly stressed! 4 days before MA thesis hand in, loads of editing to do, bibliography etc... and calls from university finance departments do not help either. I feel properly scrambled at the moment. Can't wait to have a pint on Monday.
Edit: and I have horrible back pain from sitting at a desk for hours at a time, and its really cold and the heating is broken.
When are we having that pint?Rodheh wrote:Largest slump of apathy that I've had in my lifetime, quite possibly. Thought I was coming out of it but nope, apparently not. Nothing meaningful to do right now and nobody to work with - doesn't make the situation any better unfortunately.
Fear not, you have friends in the shadow-world.
jcnporter wrote:Echo the Sun wrote:i've been suffering from insomnia for the last several years. it's just been getting worse and worse. the only thing that works for me are sleeping pills, but i don't want to live my life from pill to pill. they're dangerous and only meant to get you back on a sleep schedule, not be taken in perpetuity. and it sucks to be tired every moment of every day. my thinking has been affected. my short-term memory is horrible. i can't even speak well anymore. i don't have the energy to do anything
People don't often think of it, but have you tried changing your diet?
Echo the Sun wrote:jcnporter wrote:Echo the Sun wrote:i've been suffering from insomnia for the last several years. it's just been getting worse and worse. the only thing that works for me are sleeping pills, but i don't want to live my life from pill to pill. they're dangerous and only meant to get you back on a sleep schedule, not be taken in perpetuity. and it sucks to be tired every moment of every day. my thinking has been affected. my short-term memory is horrible. i can't even speak well anymore. i don't have the energy to do anything
People don't often think of it, but have you tried changing your diet?
i've changed it a bit. i've cut out caffeine almost completely. do you think i should do something radical?
Echo the Sun wrote:i've been suffering from insomnia for the last several years. it's just been getting worse and worse. the only thing that works for me are sleeping pills, but i don't want to live my life from pill to pill. they're dangerous and only meant to get you back on a sleep schedule, not be taken in perpetuity. and it sucks to be tired every moment of every day. my thinking has been affected. my short-term memory is horrible. i can't even speak well anymore. i don't have the energy to do anything
Valotonin wrote:Echo the Sun wrote:i've been suffering from insomnia for the last several years. it's just been getting worse and worse. the only thing that works for me are sleeping pills, but i don't want to live my life from pill to pill. they're dangerous and only meant to get you back on a sleep schedule, not be taken in perpetuity. and it sucks to be tired every moment of every day. my thinking has been affected. my short-term memory is horrible. i can't even speak well anymore. i don't have the energy to do anything
Another, less dangerous (i.e not having to use benzodiazepines or NBDs [non benzo equivalent drugs]) is melatonin therapy to readjust one's sleep rhythm naturally. I know it sounds like a load of bullshit, but pineapples contain more melatonin than prescription melatonin so one can actually use this to their advantage as it has been proven to adjust sleeping patterns in insomniacs and I have suffered from similar in the past. Hope you are well x
Rodheh wrote:You need a script to get standard, supplemental melatonin over there?
Rodheh wrote:That's some nasty bullshit. You "have to" as in it's illegal to order some from elsewhere online?
Not doubting you or anything, just seems odd and generally unusual when I find anything remotely like this being more lenient in the US than the UK, Canada, Australia et al.
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