So when I was laying in bed all night, I actually started to think about what I was doing. And I realized that I forgot what sleep was and how to do it. I though that sleep was something like detaching your skull from your body and booting it into your neighbours yard. Then I realized I’ve been awake for every second since I layed down. 86,000 seconds. I’m so tired. Did I forget to take my pills? No one will ever know. I just forgot sleep. It actually makes my head hurt. I think I’m gonna call the clinic when it opens to see what to do because I obv forgot how to work. I don’t want to go to the hospital though. Maybe just vomit because it feels right. Good morning.
That’s scary to think about.
I do not know but I do not seem to forget sleep. I go to the bed quite early after taking my meds and somehow sleep just comes and then I wake up in the next morning.
Maybe read a book in bed until you feel sleepy? I find that helps a lot if I can’t sleep. Sleep is like eating, it comes instinctively and naturally, so don’t worry! Sleep can only come when you let go thinking about it…
I stop sleeping when I’m going psychotic. Maybe it’s a sign for you too?
Maybe you forgot your medication?
I haven’t slept really in about three nights since I abruptly stopped my Seroquel because it causing me to be a zombie and live in drowsy, sleepy fog. I told my therapist on Friday. I see the psychiatrist on Tuesday. He said that we will work on this sleeping thing. (My therapist, that is.) I have been so afraid to sleep. They told that I would die if I slept. I think maybe I do doze off for maybe 15 or 30 minutes or so. I really like my therapist; but, I am very frightened of the psychiatrist. I don’t know her so well. I don’t what medications she will prescribe me. I don’t really know what is good for me and what is really “wrong” with me. Maybe, there is no actual diagnosis in the DSM-V. I am very skeptical of these new made-up of diseases of the late twentieth/twenty-first century. I have been like this all my life; since six years old with a variable unique changeable set of symptoms, I really don’t know the answer for me anymore. A good night’s sleep with good dreams does sound appealing.
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I can sympathize with you about the Seroquel. I take it at night along with another anti-psychotic for sleep.
You can talk with your psychiatrist about how your medication affects you. Don’t give her all the power. You have to learn to trust her and that takes time.