I get frequent bouts of insomnia, as I’m sure we ALL do, but it gets to the point on many nights (and there have been many for me, believe me) where I can’t fall asleep no matter how hard I try and yet I’m so damn tired. I just lay awake feeling restless. Does anybody know of a good way to help combat insomnia? I could really use the added sleep to boost my energy drive at work.

how does loss of sleep (either not sleeping or interrupted sleep, like waking up every hour or two) effect you mentally in the long-term?

Hello, Im here to look for help because I cant find it and Im really desperate, please be serious in your answers.

Since I was a kid I always feel sad, alone and strange; with suicidal ideas.

When I was 13 I start to feel worst and start to have problems sleeping. And when I was 16 I start to be medicated (I used to take Haldol, altruline, trileptal and Rivotril ) that was my first prescription) my mom take me with another doctors and they remove some drugs and change my Dx.

When the last Dr. remove almost all my drugs; I don’t what happen but i start to feel better and that was like a 3 years period.

But know, I’m sick again. I’m going from a Dr to Dr to find a cure, but I can’t. Being honest , I don’t know if I can still trust on doctors.

So… do you know if there’s something that I can do to be better? Like exercise? avoid caffeine? Read some kind of books? What I can do?

I’m currently 24y.o., I’m an engineer, I lose my job, I’m still on therapy (with a psychology ) and my last Dx was Border limit Disorder (6months ago)

I Hope you can help me. I wanna be ok.

Sorry the grammar, English is not my first language

I’ve always had problems with sleep, either I wake up after 4 hours and can’t get back to sleep, or I sleep for 16 hours and can’t pull myself out of bed without maximum effort. Then I am tired all day and all I think about is going back to bed. About every week I experience hallucinations of men in my bed grabbing me and I wake up not able to move or breathe, terrified, and then hallucinate over and over that I have gotten up and none of the lights will turn on, trying to get help. Until I am able to inflict some sort of real pain on myself that brings me out of it and then if I don’t get up and wake myself fully I slip back into it. The las few days has gotten even worse and I’ve maybe been awake for 20 hours out of 72 and don’t want to get out of my bed and have had two bouts of sleep paralysis. The doctor just throws lunesta or anxiety pills at me which doesn’t help. Can anyone help me?

I’m trying to get off sleeping pills I’ve been relying on, but I’m having serious insomnia troubles without them. My body feels exhausted, but my mind doesn’t seem to and lately I just don’t get a comfortable, tired feeling at bedtime. I have anxiety issues, and I had an anxiety attack while trying to sleep, so I think that is hooked into it. Thanks in advance for any ideas!

My family believes it started when my grandmother passed away (she was dying of cancer in our home for several months)

I don’t live in that same house anymore. I have night terrors, I scream and wake up my family and even have done it at other people’s places. People have thought I was being murdered before because it is so loud. I have no recollection of this at all as you would expect.

Is there treatment for this kind of thing?

thanks

In the movies people take lots of sleeping pills to kill themselves does it actually work wouldn’t they just fall asleep?

Hi i am looking for some effective things i can do/use to help me fall asleep faster without the use of sleeping pills.

My friend is having this problem of sleep walking and it’s really freak him out. Can someone tell me a website having advice on this topic? Please provide only relevant answer.

My friend keeps falling asleep without his permission (funny way to put it, but ya). He already knows it isn’t diabetes and he’s afraid of getting himself tested for a narcolepsy, so is it possible that he has something else?