I want to know what all it entails to get a sleep disorder diagnosis. I just don’t know if I could sleep being hooked up to a machine and if I gotta go to the bathroom, I’m not going to use a bed pan either!
Also, if you are being treated or have been, how much has it helped you? I’m so tired and sleepy all the time and am getting worse.
Thanks so much!

I admit to an extent I am paranoid. I don’t like the connotations of the word/diagnosis. I searched on the net and thought border line personality disorder fit. Dr. said paranoid is a more serious diagnosis. I searched on the web and basically only found paranoid schizoprenic(?). Do you think he’s treating me for that? I have some, not all of the symptoms, so far. Dr. said it will only get worse if left untreated. It felt like a scene from one of those alien horror movies.

Why must I take meds? I hate swallowing pills, always feels like something is stuck in my throat (seriously!). I want to be open to healing, but what kind of life can I have always doped up?

I tried Risperadal - slept basically the whole week through! No real improvements, either. Now he wants me to try Abilify - haven’t started yet. My head is banging as the Risperadal wears off. Please, is there someone who can help me sort this out? (serious replies only - serious issue) Thanks

Often when I go to bed at night I wake up feeling very full of anxiety. Sometimes it causes me to sit right up with shortness of breath from a dead sleep. I also am now getting anxiety feelings including shortness of breath, elevated BP and heart rate, shaking legs feeling like adrenlin is rushing through them, and a bit of chest pain. I had a complete cardiac workup and was told there is nothing wrong with my heart, however, was put on Toprol for my high pulse rate and blood pressure. Any of you had anything like this and what was the diagnosis?

Hi there, seeing as I cannot talk to my friends (I am a private person) I thought i’d ask complete strangers!

It is like I have two personalities. One side is hyper the other is extremely depressed. And when I researched this, originally thinking I might have two actual separate personalities, Bi-Polar Disorder came up. I have pretty much all the symptoms. I was diagnosed with depression and ‘recovered’ two and a half years ago (minus the last 8 weeks) the last 8 weeks I have seen more a depressive mood and this lead me to research. Two and half years ago I suddenly shifted into an overly happy mood thinking I could get over depression by thinking completely positively, and this is mostly how I have been the last two and half years. Now it is shifting between both, the hyperactive and depressive.

I am going to my GP on Monday, but I wondered what you think do you think he will diagnose me?

My symptoms:
-Hyperactivity

-Sudden bursts of energy, sense of energy which can’t be released/solved

-A need to run, jump about go crazy

-Fastness, racing, in thoughts and actions

-Buzziness

-Impulsiveness (sudden alcohol abuse, a need to buy something I don’t need, playing loud music, a sudden need to go out, do something stupid related to the depressive part)

- Excited

-Adrenaline rush

-Talkativeness (Or thinking so fast I cannot get the words out right)

- Anger, irritability, sudden need to kick, throw, punch things, objects, scream

-Paranoia (Thinking everyone is watching me, looking at me, judging me, whispering about me, talking about me)

-Shaking, shivering (usually in a depressed state during a ‘plunge’ where the adrenaline and depressive merge)

- Restlessness, unable to sit still

-Lack of concentration, focus

- Frustration

-Thoughts of suicide, death (everyday, several times)

- Sadness

-Feelings of guilt

-Worthlessness

-Feelings/ thoughts I won’t achieve

-Need to self- harm, cutting myself (superficial lacerations), burning myself, (previously I have pulled out a large area of my hair) recently pulling out some

- Low energy, lethargic

-Want to sleep, but cannot or don’t need as much sleep and still wide awake

- Withdrawal/ Isolation, I don’t want to see anyone, speak to anyone, just want to be alone

- Social anxiety, fear of people coming around, running off, hiding

-Loss of touch with reality, not feeling real, feeling like I am standing completely still while the world continues to move and be normal

Probably some I have missed, but I wondered what you think?
Loves xXx
I am 21 (22 in September)

For the longest time I’ve had a fear of dying.

But it seems now and then, I wake up, I’m still half a sleep and have a feeling that no matter how long it takes I’m going to die and time doesn’t seem to matter in this state, and why do I exist. Also I have a real hard time remembering who I am, my past (temporary amnesia) etc.
It’s a very weird feeling and it’s hard to explain.
I find I can reassure myself that the feeling will pass after a minute or so. But it always leaves me really uncomfortable and afraid.
Often I wake up with the feeling I am suffocating. Like I am waking up after holding my breath for a long time.

Now more often I wake up in a half panic. And I think I’m causing myself to wake up from fear. Often with numb hands (I think this is related to sleep paralysis). Or sleep apea maybe, as I feel I’ve not been breathing.

Does anyone have a way to get over this? Has anyone else had these feelings? Is there a name for this sort of disorder (diagnosis is the first step to recovery). I’ve tried to read up online about sleep disorders, but there are soo many, I can’t find what I’m looking for.
Does any of this pose a serious health threat, or should I just try to ignore it? I’d see a doctor, but I am no good at talking to them in person (I’d feel stupid).

I got into it a little with her…this is what she told me.

"in highschool i had to go to the doctor a lot cuz i had like anxiety attacks & i couldnt sleep so they said i had an anxiety disorder & i got prescribed antidepressants but my mom wouldnt let me take them but like it was never really that bad but like the past year its gotten worse & worse like i have mental breakdowns"

We just got back from vacation…and for no reason at all or for simple things she would start crying. She also said she has hot flashes.
also she doesnt know if this has anything to do with it but she gets viral throat infections monthly almost.

My daughter has always seemed a bit different, so to speak. We had to put her baby swing on the highest setting for her to enjoy it. She slept that way for months. I thought it was due to reflux, but looking back, she may have just NEEDED the stimulation. As soon as she learned to crawl, she would crawl in circles. Then walked in large circles when she learned how to walk, and eventually would spin around and around in a tight spin for what seemed like forever, and could walk away in a straight line when she had enough. She can still do that.
I suppose, although her quirks could be irritating and worried me at times, I must have padded her world pretty well. Well enough to keep her from totally losing it. However, now that she is in Kindergarten, the teacher seems to think she is just a poorly behaved child who has been loosely disciplined.

Annaliese gets up from her desk often, sometimes retreating to underneath her desk or a table, she talks to herself or others, or makes noises nonstop. Sometimes she will literally have had enough of that woman and the overwhelming classroom setting that she will plug her ears and hum or put her hands over her eyes trying to block everything out. I get the feeling she is fidgety and can’t sit still because she is hyperfocused on finding something to relieve her tension.

I have done so much research on this subject. I found a checklist (for every type of sensory processing disorder) and she blows many of them out of the water. In an odd way, this is a relief. I was sure it was ADHD, which scared me to death knowing the meds she’d probably end up needing just to be on a level playing field with her peers. [I have read every positive parenting/discipline book you can imagine and have tried every technique-and none have helped. I figured she’d for sure be an extreme case since no behavioral changes seemed to help.] I am happy to find out that SPD is a real possibilty, and that she will need occupational therapy to help steer her in the right direction.

My problem is trying to get a diagnosis - or get this ruled out. I know I need to get her in front of an OT or a neurologist to get a solid answer. A school psychologist observed her in the classroom for about an hour and a half, and said that aside from her crawling under the desk and making noises most of the day, and spinning, and bouncing, and slamming things on her desk, and not sitting still, and her ‘high energy’, she just seemed a little immature. WHAT? My problem with that is that if this was simply a maturity issue, I would have seen improvement over the past 2 1/2 years in these behaviors.

I could go on and on.. but I will close now and see if anyone else has some input. Thank you in advance. Any advice or insight I might get will be invaluable!

By the way, this is an extremely intelligent little girl. She is way above and beyond her peers on that level, but her quirks and negative ‘behaviors’ outshine her intellectual brilliance. The teacher believes she will have to be held back if I decide to keep her in K this year. She feels my daughter is too ’socially immature’ and will not improve enough to go on to 1st grade with the rest of her class. A little premature of an observation, don’t you think?

Is there a way to stop it? does anyone else have a sleep sex problem?

If you are unsure of what I’m talking about: Sleep sex or sexsomnia is a form of non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnia (similar to sleepwalking) that causes people to commit sexual acts while they are asleep. The first doctor to coin the term "Sleep sex" is Dr. David Saul Rosenfeld, a neurologist and sleep doctor from Los Angeles, California. The proposed medical diagnosis is NREM Arousal Parasomnia - Sexual Behaviour in Sleep, and is considered to be a distinct variant of sleepwalking/confusional arousals (ICSD 2). The condition was defined by three researchers from the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa in a paper called "Sexsomnia — A New Parasomnia?" published in the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry in June 2003.
Sufferers are often aware of their behavior for a long time before they seek help, often because they are not aware that it is a medical disorder or for fear that others will judge it as willful behavior rather than a medical disorder. However, the reality of the condition has been confirmed by sleep disorder researchers who have made sound and video recordings of patients with the condition and observed unusual brain wave activity during the episodes similar to that experienced by other parasomniacs. It is a mind/body disconnect that occurs during sleep. In many cases it is a pre-cursor to neuromuscular disease

Hi there. I’ve been diagnosed with having an anxiety disorder. But I think i might also be a hypochondriac too (since I always think there’s something wrong with me, even extreme diseases that might not be there) and I’ve been doing research on anxiety today and read about a special type of anxiety that is OCD. I’ve heard about this many times but I never really thought or cared about it much before my diagnosis. Anyway, I’ve been in deep thought on this and so far I have obsessive thoughts such as:

1)I have to say goodnight to every single family member even god (and i’m not religious) because I’m scared something bad might happen to them if I don’t

2)Everynight I wake up in the middle of the night for no reason and the first thing that comes to mind is the thought of ghosts. so i have to check my room for any white blurs or spots. (crazy i know)

3)Everyday before I sleep I am scared that I will be dissing or cursing at Jesus or God for no reason (again I’m not religious)

4)I constantley brush my hair in fear that it will go frizzy or puffy throughout the day even during school (my hair is not capable of going frizzy, at all, it’s extremely silky and straight, which doesn’t make sense to me)

I just need to be put at ease for now. I want to know if these are any symptoms of ocd? I am going to see a therapist this month so I will also ask them.

it is a sleep disorder that you have dreams while you are awake. Most people have it when they are about to go to sleep, some have it during the day. they are called hypnogogic hallucinations, you have to look up the definition for hypnogogic in a sleep disorder web site. it is very rare, i am on medication to help me get into the proper rem when i go to bed, but i use to have them all day long, they were mostly random things, like a bird flying by a person on the ceiling like spider man, they became more and more vivid as i got older, by the time i was 42 they were amazingly real and very detailed, i could stare at them for a period of time, one man walking along side a rural road, had bees swarming around hes head, i was at a stop sign, and he wasn’t too far from the car, i didn’t want him to think i was weird, so i watched to see how long i could see, then i moved my car up a little, looked again, still there, moved up again , i could see him in my side mirror, they were still there, i was quite surprised they were still there so i popped my head out the window, i could still see them,,, i wanted to stay and see how long it would last , but i didn’t want to make a scene. i was diagnosed be that time and was trying different meds, the intrusions got really clear and vivid and more and more unusual, one time i had started to fall asleep, i peeped open my eyes a bit, and i saw a bunch of silvery things moving around, i opened my eyes fully , and they were my fish from my fish tank! i watched them for a couple minutes, then they gradually faded. that’s how they intrusions did, they faded out. I probably hundreds if not thousands over a period of 25-30 years, i had previously been misdiagnosed as borderline schizophrenic. i would love to find any one who has these and have a diagnosis of r.e.m. intrusion.
I MEANT R.E.M. INTRUSION DISORDER
Thankyo for your responce, im curious is you got a diagnosis for your sleep disorder. i was diagnosed by a board certified forensic psyciatrist and board certified neurologist,one one of 12 in the world. i was fortunate to have found him. this disorder is very rare, but my dr said its recognised as a serious problem. my new neurologist, said i couldnt have it its too rare. that made me mad, i know what i experienced. i beleive it was rem intrusion. sounds like you have sleep paralasis ans sleep terror, i think that would be very hard to deal with, i use to have the waking into a nightmare, someone in my room. took me years to recognise what it was, but as you said, at hte time it is very real and very frightning.
best wishes to you also , sweet dreams
are you on any meds? im on lamictal(lamotragin) and low doses of klonopin. klonopin is a mes one should be on for a max of 1 year, i cant go off it, its the only med that works with lamictal, to put me in rem and keep me there. i still am bothered by insomnia, like you said , i try not to worry. keep your chin up , unless you fall asleep LOL