this makes my third night without sleep. Everyone in my support circle is too busy to talk to me. Not sure the Latuda is working yet, on my third week. Yesterday to try and wear myself out, I rearranged all the furniture in the living room to no avail. What do you do when you’re lonely and sleepless?
Don’t know
Have a hot chocolate? Or tea
Do what your doing surf the net
Do some deep breathing exercise
Wash your face
Brush your teeth
Maybe walk around the block. …
And screw what people think.
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You didn’t catch any sleep at all last three days? That makes me very instable. I have some lorazepam prescribed for times of insomnia. Also, exercise seems to help me a bit to get regular sleep.
Know that ■■■■ all too well.
Accepting the isolation is tough, I still struggle with it. YouTube helps. Lots of videos on there.
Try college humor or buzz feed or just type in the name of your favorite hobby and go from there:
I go for a long long swim in hopes of wearing myself out…
I’m not good with lonely… my 19 year old kid sister is my room mate. Splitting rent with me is much cheaper then college dorms.
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I do things in this order;take Xanax; take melatonin, a lot, like 9mg of it; listen to music; still not sleepy? Masturbation. What, still can’t sleep? Drink two beers. Okay, now you should totally be feeling sedated at least. Still can’t sleep? Drink two more beers. At this point you really are just ■■■■■■ if you still can’t sleep.
And by the way, latuda is not sedating at all for schizers. I took it before and could not sleep.
I really can not relate to not getting regular sleep but as far as feeling isolated or alone I will just tell myself that this will pass and I will feel tired and just go to sleep and wake up the next day and live through the ordeal again. It usually just goes away if I ignore it or even considering doing something to help myself but I don’t do anything at all but suffer through it again and again and again… I think that I will eventually just die from it but then I will not even have the opportunity to do something about it and will end up like one of those ghosts you hear about who are stuck here in limbo forever with unresolved problems, soooo… I just think that… well, I must have done something wrong to deserve this punishment so why even bother trying to resolve it. Part of the punishment is having the opportunity and then remembering that you did when I finally die and still can’t do anything about it, forever. So I think I must have created all the evil in this world that is the cause of all the suffering, even my own. This is either a delusion or just the plain hard facts… for me anyway, so don’t feel so bad unless of course you believe you created the evil in this world as well or let it out of the box(so to speak). I believe in justice, so I won’t take it so hard. And if it is just a delusion, then it will somehow resolve itself at some point in time, either in this lifetime or perhaps another.
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I force myself to stay awake, no laying down, no closing my eyes, definitely no napping- for as many days as needed until the need for sleep overwhelms me and I start snoring as soon as my head is down.
For long term, I have to go to bed about the same time every night.
Sleep is just another function you have to train your body to do if you want it regularly. Think schedule.
The body adapts to anything, and it’s best not to allow it to function when it wants if you want some control over it.
It’s just like eating.
The joke is,
“what do you call someone who eats when they are hungry?”
Fat.
But it isn’t a joke, it’s laverdad.
(true)
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i take sleeping tablets when i can’t sleep
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Latuda is very activating for many - this could be the reason why you cant get to sleep - I would talk to your pdoc