So Friday night something weird happened. I took sleep aid (I won’t say how much, but it was a lot), along with some alcohol. Anyways, along with these factors, I have acid reflux and was very stressed out and depressed, as well as anxiety disorder, which I was having trouble with that day. I say these things because I’ve been looking up causes of sleep walking.

Anyways, the last thing I clearly remember was texting one of my friends (Very badly, however. She said I was ‘drunk texting’), and then throwing up on my floor. At some point I remember being outside and seeing my ex, but no matter how close I got to him, he always ran away from me, but stayed in my yard for a good 2 hours (I asked him about it and he said he wasn’t there). Everything seemed very real, and when my mom woke me in the morning I definitely believed I was out there, and so was he. I WOULD believe this was just a dream, except that my mother found some of my stuff in the front yard, our cat had gotten out and under the house, some of my other stuff was around the inside of the house (And I remember walking around the house, but not putting those things there). Not only that, but clothes I had worn that day were thrown around my room, and my knee has a cut on it that I didn’t have before. And I don’t even entirely remember going outside, just that I was out there, but I was confused, because I saw a pig and a llama. Not to mention white stuff all over the ground, which wasn’t there.

So it sounds like sleep walking, but can you actually sort of "see" what you sleep walk?

is it true that if you sit or work or something on your bed, or basically do anything besides sleeping/sex, it can cause sleep disorders?

I hate this… I have very eradic sleep patterns and can’t even follow them myself. Some nights I need 13 hours of sleep, other nights I only need about 7 to feel well rested. Often I’ll go to sleep at 7 or 8 PM one night then be up till 5 or 6 AM the next. I can never force myself to go to sleep or to wake up. I take melatonin but try to limit my doses because I’m uncomfortable with the idea of medication, though this has stopped working and I need to take larger and larger amounts. It is so frustrating because I often miss things because I thought I would be awake but instead am sleeping. I’m so tired of spending my days exhausted because I only got 2 hours of sleep the night before unable to get to sleep any earlier. This is out of control and I want this to end. My dream would be to go to sleep at 10 or 11 PM every night and fall right asleep without hassle, then wake up at 7 or 8 the next morning feeling well rested. Could I have a sleep disorder? And if not what is causing this?

It frustrates me so much when people say, "Oh, just go to sleep and wake up at the same time each day and all your sleep problems will go away." I would if I could, but often I can’t fall asleep! And then they say, "Oh, just wake up earlier," but then I just end up sleep deprived and miserable, until about 8 or 9 when suddenly the tiredness goes away and I finally feel awake, right when I want to be going to sleep.

If I fall asleep at work again, I might get fired.

Hello,

Ever since i can remember, my friends and family used to tell me that whenever they went to my room to speak to me, even though i was in the bed and seemed asleep. They would ask me questions or have a conversation and i would answer back. But when i wake up i never remember, my bf told me that i open my eyes wide open and look at him or around, and he speaks to me and i answer then i close my eyes and sleep. I also move on my sleep i do gestures, not too long ago he told me i seemed to have been punching the air too when i dream.

What kind of sleeping disorder do i have? i know i do, but i don’t know the name, i also don’t have sleep apnea cause i can breath just fine.

Thank you!

for 1.5 years now i have struggled with appropriate sleep. it startted when i went to hiroshima and saw the awful things we did to those people. i cant fully shake that and other things from my past and so i am scared to sleep because i think about them subconsciously. but at daytime i dont function well! im tired all the time dont care about anything all i want is sleep. i cant relax when im sleeping and im afraid i wont wake up until two days later cause im so tired so i dont let myself get deep soothing sleep, or i wake up every 2-3 hours. whos est to see about this? psychologust, pyschiatrist, hypnotherapist, who? regular doctor isnt helpful.

The girl was teen aged and had a disorder that made her sleep for months at a time..anybody know the name of the disorder?
I could swear it wasn’t that I though narcolepsy just made you really tired and made you fall asleep when you don’t want to…

I am 15 (sixteen in two months) and i am having trouble sleeping. at the beginning of the summer i started off going to sleep around 3-5am walking around 1-3pm (this was all good), and now some how im going to sleep around 8-11am walking up around 7-8pm!!!!

i am even gone the whole day without sleep, before i went to sleep this mourning i was up for the third day with only 3 hours of sleep.

thats the problem how am i supposed to enjoy my summer if i wake up an hour and a half before my curfew? waking up 1-3pm was fine cause who really goes out in the mourning unless you have plans to o some where like at the opening, like a amusement park or something.

anyways do you think i have a sleeping disorder? what can i do to get back to waking around 1-3?
things i tried:
staying up all day
(always fall asleep for about an hour or two which gives me enough energy to stay up another night)

laying in the dark
(laid there from 3am till around 9pm which when i usually go to sleep)

From 3.5 years ago up until very recently, I had a mental health problem which caused me to restrict the amount of time that I slept each night, much the same way that somebody with anorexia nervosa restricts food; at one time I reached a point where I would allow myself no more than one hour of sleep per night. The emotions surrounding this obsession were very similar to those experienced by people with AN: sleep was viewed as a shameful and weak.

In the DSM-IV and ICD-10, the last item on the list of nonorganic sleep disorders is nonorganic sleep disorder, unspecified, which says that it includes "emotional sleep disorder, not otherwise specified". However, I can find no further information on this phrase. Google searches only bring up PDF files of ICD/DSM. I discussed it with several librarians, and we couldn’t find any books referencing it. I asked my psychiatrist at one point; he didn’t respond. Does anyone know what ESD-NOS is and whether it’s applicable to my recent problem?

It’s been a week now that almost every night during my sleep, I abruptly wake up in terror. Last night it was because there was supposed to be a snake in my bed… I panicked so much that I woke my folks up at 4 o’clock in the morning! Other times I don’t remember the cause. Other times, I remember having woken up in terror during the night, and in the morning I find myself without as shirt or trousers of my PJ’s. I’ve had this seldom in the past, but now it has become more often. I don’t think it’s a dream that causes this, because I have had some nasty dreams in the past with no such effects. Is it a sleep disorder (night terror)? What can I do about it?

A sleeping disorder in itself or depression causing sleeping problems?

I’m 18, Have a fiancee and have been experiencing sleep problems for about 3 months now. When after my fiancee falls asleep I stay awake untill 1 in morning, trying too.

And even though at times I feel tired, no matter how long I close my eyes I just cannot fall asleep for hours on hours. When I do fall asleep and wake up in the middle of the night, It takes me forever to finally go back to sleep. And I wake up in the morning feeling so tired, all day.

Maybe a nap would help? Nope. I CAN’T fall asleep in the daytime. I just can’t and I stay tired ALL day long.

I dont know if it’s from depression causing this or a sleep disorder causing my depression. I get terrible mood swings and am stressed constantly. Please help me figure this out.