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Posted by sova on March 01, 2007 at 13:19:47:In Reply to: thinking outloud... posted by insomniacagain on March 01, 2007 at 12:12:33:
I, and a lot of people on this forum, have been struggling with the same issues you have. I've had life-long insomnia, but I managed with it until I was 24. That's when my doctor prescribed sleeping pills, and I was on them for years and years and years. Insomnia has been hell, and I let it have a really destructive influence on my life. Yes, I LET it. I lived for years in fear that someone would take my sleeping pills away--I depended on them completely for sleep. Now that I have finally rid myself of this dependency, I wish I had done it years ago.I think a lot of my insomnia problems were due to biological influences--my mother was an anxious person and although I wouldn't admit it until recently, I was very anxious all my life, and had panic attacks starting in my 40's. I am pretty much over the panic attacks.
I've never found a med that has allowed me to feel as though the insomnia problem has been solved. I am off ambien and sleeping pills. I have been taking remeron (7.5mg)for about a month and it helps--I think. It's not a very noticeble effect-actually, what I notice most of all is that even when I don't sleep much, I don't feel as terrible the next day as I used to when I didn't sleep. But that could also be a sign of progress on the CBT front. I find that when the sleep debt builds up, I sleep. If I am upset or anxious about something, I don't sleep no matter what I take.
At this point, I am willing to accept that I will always need to take something. I used to feel embarassed or ashamed about it, but I don't any longer. I am better able to accept the fact that this is just the way I am. (I also think that a lot of our problems have to do with our modern life's schedules--we have to be in bed at a certain time in order to wake up at a certain time, and we don't get that much physical exercise. I mean like working all day in the fields, or something similar. Then I guess we'd fall into bed exhausted!)
Why did you decide to go off the Paxil? Was it that things were going so well that you decided you didn't need it?
- Re: thinking outloud... insomniacagain 13:40 3/01/07 (0)
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