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Does anyone relate to any of this?

Posted by Joy on April 09, 2007 at 07:19:35:

- Anxiety about going to bed.
- Anxiety about falling asleep. If I feel myself starting to drift off I wake myself up.
- Insomnia. Melatonin does not help. Ambien and benzos generally do, but I still wake up a lot.
- Waking up a lot during the night, generally from a dream. I can generally fall back to sleep right away.
- When waking up without an alarm clock, I generally wake up from a vivid dream
- Many dreams involve some sort of homicide, as if my dreams have a "murder mystery" theme to them. This is sometimes more common than others.
- Difficulty waking up to an alarm clock, even if I got enough sleep. I need to set my alarm an hour to hour and a half early, take adderall, reset my alarm, then go back to bed.
- Daytime drowsiness/sleepiness.
- Low energy. I've said in the past that if I could change one thing about myself, I'd want more energy. I don't remember having low energy as a little kid but I know I have at least since I was a young teenager.
- Low motivation.
- Lack of alertness. Sometimes totally out of it.
- Strange sensation once in a while during the day, like I can't feel my limbs as well and feel out of it. This upsets me. I don't know if anxiety is the cause or the result.
- Sometimes stop talking mid sentence. I don't realize that I did until the person I'm talking to prompts me to finish what I was saying. Sometimes I don't remember.
- I rarely take naps. Sometimes I try but can't fall all the way asleep. Naps make me anxious (possibly related to stuff that happened when I was a kid?)


I've been diagnosed with ADD and depression and am being treated for those as well as anxiety. I have been wondering for the past few years though if these things are secondary to a sleep disorder. I've been an insomniac all my life.

The main thing that I'm curious about is why I wake up so often during the night. I don't have a hard time getting back to sleep most of the time (sometimes I do though), but I wake up probably 5 to 10 times a night.

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