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feel like i'm dying...

Posted by AJM on September 15, 2002 at 14:58:46:

sorry i haven't posted lately but as i said in an earlier post, i'm trying to not obsess about my sleep problem so i am trying to break my "addiction" to coming to this forum several times a day. i figure when I get better i'll get on here and encourage some more like i used to.

but anyway....wow, what a night. due to my incredible stupidity, i stayed out all night drinking with friends. When i tried to go to bed it was 6:30 in the morning, which probably would have been ok and i might have gotten several hours of sleep, but I had a friend sleeping in the bed with me. I get very hot and sweaty when someone is next to me in bed, and i cannot sleep like that. So i woke up after about 30 minutes and that's all the sleep i got. not only am i exhausted from no sleep, but i was very drunk and because I couldn't sleep it off I had to suffer all day while it wore off. I couldn't even eat for most of the day because of how sick to my stomach and dizzy i felt. i feel like i'm dying!

I know i did this to myself. I did not mean to and I'm upset with myself. BUT when i get like this (by that, meaning when i have had no sleep or less than an hour the night before) my stress level in my body goes up tremendously and i don't think straight. I then start panicking about sleeping....how i'm scared of sleep and i have this huge fear of losing consiousness. However, I'm also scared to death of not sleeping and scared I will go crazy from lack of sleep. This usually only happens when I don't sleep hardly any or none the night before. And I can't help it...it's like my brain seriously malfunctions when i lose a night of sleep!

please, does anyone have any reassurance?? I'm so scared and i don't know why i get like this.

ajm

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