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Insomnia Cured and Back again

Posted by RuthS on September 17, 2002 at 14:56:27:

1 year ago I was having my serious Insomnia due to Postpartum depression, I followed John Wiedman and other sleep specialist's advise in terms of reducing sleep time etc, but still take medication as according to my doctor, my Insomnia was caused by physical condition + psychological, so I can't go cold turkey without medication.

My doctor prescribe me with Nozinon which is non addictive, I was on it for 1 year, but during the course of the year, I slowly reducing the dosage I took, and finally get rid of it after 1 year together with Zoloft.

I was sleeping well again after this 1 year, except 1 or 2 odd nights a month (normally appear during my PMS).

For some strange reason, my Insomnia hit me again 2 weeks ago, while I was having my odd 1 or 2 nights Insomnia, I thought I will just get over with it, but It has been keep coming back every nights since then. What strange is that I feel like this is a conditioned Insomnia, I have a 20 months old toddler who sleeps on her own big kid bed, there is another single bed beside her which I use sometimes to sleep together with her if she has a rough night. Sometimes when I have difficulty sleeping at night on my own bed, I will go to her bed and sleep with her and normally I tends to be able to fall asleep more easily in her bed.

These two weeks, I was not able to fall asleep in my own bed even if I take medication, but as soon as I get to her bed, I was able to sleep (not immediately, but at least it was a lot easier for me to sleep in her bed, but still sometimes It will take me 1/2 to an hour to do that). I have trouble accepting this fact, with obvious reason that 1) I do not want my husband to be neglected 2) I want to train my baby to be independent. And Obviously I cannot keep doing this forever.

Anyone of you have any experience in something like this, or you know someone who has? Do you have experience with people who has Insomnia in the past and has been cured but it come back again?

I also experience certain level of anxiety attack at night (with obvious reason, just like anyone who experience Chronic Insomnia before), but I also will have some level of anxiety attack in the morning while I wake up, my heart beat will be very fast, and sometimes it takes a few hours for it to get back to normal beat). So I am not sure whether this time my Insomnia is causing the anxiety or the Anxiety disorder is causing the Insomnia again. I really not sure whether this time, my Insomnia is caused by physical problem or psychology problem, what do you think?

I keep telling myself that I have gone through the worst time in sleep disorder in the past, I should be able to deal with this problem this time a lot more easily, but it do not seems to be the case, I am getting more and more anxious every nights now just because I have a higher expectation on myself to be able to cure this problem quickly since I experience that before.

What should I do?

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