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Re: Kindred Spirits

Posted by tomwith2cats on January 28, 2005 at 13:47:19:

In Reply to: Kindred Spirits posted by hopeandfaith on January 28, 2005 at 06:39:05:

I agree with ZZZ that desperation is a common
reaction to chronic insomnia. When this started
with me about two years ago, i totally freaked
out. When my ex-girlfriend had this problem
several years ago, she ended up hospitalized
with a mental breakdown. She now considers
herself generally recovered. I think that half
the battle is getting over the terror that you
won't sleep. Even if one doesn't sleep, that
only means that you feel tired or not so great
for one day. It's not the end of the world.
I'm not recovered from this problem, by no means.
It's a real drag, I agree. It interferes with
my life. But i'm working on it. I've figured
out how to avoid sleep onset and sleep maintenance
insomnia. By using a combination of sleep
scheduling discipline and tactics from cognitive
behaivor therapy. What I've not "fixed" yet is
my ability to sustain sleep for as long as I
really need to feel "normal." So long as I don't
stay in bed so long as to go beyond my current
ability to sleep, I don't have sleep onset or
sleep maintenance insomnia. It's really only
in recent weeks that I've arrived at this
stage in the recovery process.

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