I’m on lots of pills for bipolar- one being sleeping pills. (its 11:20pm in England)

They take a long time to knock me out when I’m in this mood but I just wondered what’s its like to stay awake on them. I normally get a pretty good buzz.
(please dont judge)
(:

For many years I have had panic disorder, and I’ve also had trouble sleeping and Ive woken up countless times during the night feeling like I was suffocating. My doctor always told me that it was just because of the panic disorder and he never ordered any kinds of tests at all. My lack of deep sleep has pretty much ruined my life, I never have any energy, I always feel sick all day long. I saw someone else recently who wants me to get screened for sleep apnea, if it turns out that I do have sleep apnea could I have a case against my old doctor for passing it off as anxiety for years?
ok first of all this is something that could have potentially killed me, so if you have no knowledge of medicine, plz stfu.
Secondly this is not the only problem I have had that this doctor has just passed off as anxiety, theres things like chronic chest pains, stomach problems, urinary problems, many things that could potentially be serious and I will have them all checked soon.
oh yeah and I didnt ever think it was an incorrect diagnosis, for some crazy weird reason I figured a doctor knew what he was talking about. So I myself passed it off as anxiety and It wasnt until this other doctor said "wait a minute we need to test you for sleep apnea", that I said "hold the phone here!"

For the past couple weeks i have had trouble with sleeping..sometimes i cant fall asleep at all. I think it has to do with my different times of sleeping…since im a full time college student i stay up late at night studying and take naps during the day. On weekends i’m out till the wee hours of the morning partying…so i def dont get enough sleep and take naps during the day as well. So when i really need to sleep in order to be ready for a really big exam i cannot fall asleep. Right now its getting to the point where im thinking about going to a doctor. My parents who are both doctors told me to get professional help, i want to know if there is a way of curing it before i do go to get professional help with this.
Thanks for all your help! I actually decided to listen to my parents and get professional help because i cannot do this anymore. I have finals coming up and i need tons of rest in order to do well.

I’ve been wondering for years if I might have some kind of mental illness. I’m 18 years old and have lived through three suicide attempts and one period of self-mutilation. I’ve had frequent problems with sudden, recurrent depression over the course of the last six years.

Of course it’s never a good idea to self-diagnose, but I wondered if I could be suffering from depression or bipolar disorder. However, when I did research and looked up the symptoms, I found that my symptoms weren’t quite in line with them. I don’t go through periods of mania, and as for my depressive periods, they come and go too quickly to qualify for clinical depression or bipolar disorder. Also, I don’t generally have the appetite and sleep disturbances during my depressive periods that depression and bipolar disorder typically exhibit.

Everything about my mental state is more or less characterized by extremes and instability.
I swing between being happy and depressed within a matter of minutes, and either mood can last minutes, hours, or days. I’ll often find myself happy at lunch only to find myself depressed by dinner and happy again before bedtime; other times I may be depressed for days without relief.
I also have difficulty controlling my anger, and I get inappropriately loud and violent at minor annoyances.
I alternate between periods of feeling extremely self-confident and happy with myself to hating myself without any apparent reason.
I often have trouble controlling my spending when I have money, randomly start smoking or drinking, and alternate between eating only one meal a day and having three meals with snacks in between.
I am deathly afraid of being alone in life, which I fear constantly, and cling to my friends as much as possible, although sometimes I’ll swing between thinking of someone as a close friend and then hating their guts before swinging back to being friends again.
A lot of the time, too, I feel blank or worthless.

I’ve never been diagnosed with a mental disorder, and I am currently seeing a councellor at the free center on my college campus, but she will only refer me to other doctors if she thinks I’m not improving, so no diagnosis or definitive lack thereof there.

So, Yahoo. Do you think I could have Borderline Personality Disorder?

What are treatment options? I have a relative with it and he refuses to get medical help for it, because he doesn’t want the doctor to tell him to stop smoking.

I love walking around naked. It feels so good, the breeze, the openish, everything!! Ok, so Im usually never alone home alone. Usually my bro or sis is there. I want to know how I could walk around naked without anyone seeing, or knowing. I love doing it, but i dont know when, or like where in my house.
It is also comfortable to sleep naked.
1. I dont have a lock on my room
2. I am 12, cant go 2 naked beaches
3. I cannot sleep naked, my mom wakes me up in the morning.

I’ve been taking them for 2 years and it’s hard for me to sleep without them. I’ve tried Melatonin and it does nothing. My biggest problems is that I work late so it’s hard for me to wind down when I get home. I take a sleeping pill just to fall asleep so that I won’t be up all night but I know that I can’t do that forever because it’s bad on my liver, I’m sure. Any suggestions?

I was exhausted but couldn’t get to sleep, so I took two 50mg diphenhydramine tablets.

And now I’m wide awake.

Any idea what’s going on?
I know I shouldn’t have doubled the dosage, but taking just one has never had any effect on my sleep.

I’m seriously not even tired any more.

I have bipolar disorder, do you think it could be connected?

I was just watching oprah and the doctor on the show said that people who can fall asleep 30 sec after their head hits the pillow actually suffer from sleep deprivation. My fiance has had problems for a while now with blurred vision, headaches, less ability to function at work and no one has been able to explain it. Its not very serious but bothers him. I never thought sleep would be the problem bc he falls asleep instantly, but sleep deprivation would explain all his symptoms.
The doctor on the show didnt elaborate and I cant find anything on why people who fall asleep instantly suffer from sleep deprivation. Does anyone know anything about this or where I could read something on it? thanks
He doesnt just fall asleep at random moments in the day(not narcolepsy). He can fall asleep literally within 1 minute of laying down

this is for an article, and i can’t find any related info on google…(so i’m a bit dilly…) any help will be appreciated coolness..thanks guys. uhm, let us know when you are about to exchange the temporary for eternity, why dontcha, mate? it ought to make a brilliant case study…:) just kidding though. get some sleep before your heart or liver gives out or something…