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Posted by Cairo on February 27, 2007 at 10:29:11:In Reply to: Re: Self knowledge posted by echo tech on February 27, 2007 at 08:34:50:
Why were you ashamed of having to take Remeron, but not Ambien? I take Remeron at a very low dose (7.5 mg) and it helps a lot. If I wanted to, I could probably survive without it, but I would have very light and restless sleep pretty often, and it would be easily disturbed. There is no shame in needing medication for other medical issues, why for sleep?? I've never really understood this reasoning...I don't have depression, but I've always been anxious, and I'm pretty sure there's something biologically wrong that affects my sleep.
You will still need to address your anxiety, with or without Remeron...you have to really BELIEVE that you will be fine even if you don't get enough sleep, you can't just tell yourself that, you have to believe that it's true. So spend some time examining your thoughts (really, a therapist might help a lot) to find the distortions. It sounds to me like you sort of still believe your anxious thoughts about how terrible it all is and how the insomnia will affect you.
The key for me was when I realized that it was true, that I was making the situation far, far worse with my worrying then it needed to be. Once I had that realization, I was able to stop worrying and accept that I could really be okay even if I didn't sleep great, and slowly, day by day, it got better.
- Re: Self knowledge echo tech 13:43 2/27/07 (1)
- Re: Self knowledge Cairo 15:57 2/27/07 (0)
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