(Let me begin with an appology. my comma button is broken so i use two periods as a comma. it can seem odd if you dont know this. thanks for the patience.)
Mornings are my worst time of day…my brain screams at me in jumbles…external sounds attack me with voracity…i cant process or think straight…i become highly emotional and am constantly on the verge of tears. after a few cups to a few pots of coffee later…and often a clonopin or two i can calm things down but until then it is intense. Who else thinks mornings are just awful? or after sleeping for a while in general? it happens to be after any period of sleep…trying to sort out all the external stimuli while battling the internal processes at the same time is rough. how or what to you find to be helpful in times like these?
I remember them well. Often I threw myself under an icy cold shower to try to get some mental focus. Was rather extreme and very temporary. Was well before I was taking meds. So meds and therapy helped me in the end.
Thanks, (I’m on my phone now and the comma works, haha)I’m on the risperdone injection 37.5mg, but am on a waiting list for therapy through the VA. Haven’t tried the cold shower but that reminded me a hot shower seems to help while I’m in it. Guess I’ll bug the VA about my position in line for individual therapy.
Dude feeling similar sentiments towards mornings. I wake up panicky and afraid and start getting telepathic messages from people. Luckily this only lasts for a couple hours. It used to an all day affair. Still happens when I get stressed. But yeah mornings suck. Now that I’m getting over this ■■■■ part time it really bothers me when it happens. Wish I had some advice for you but our situations are totally different. Best of luck to you man, hopefully with time therapy medications or all the above you’ll be able to overcome this.
Thanks Bryan… yeah the panic and thought transfer is not fun. Especially as i live with my inlaws right now and already have untoward issues in that respect
We’ll survive. It’s definitely a rigorous trail full of pitfalls and bad moments, but it is the human advantage to adapt and overcome. Best of luck to you tortoise.
It comes in waves… there will be times when it’s morning after morning, I wake up shattered… anxious… sure that something bad has happened… the head circus is acting up and it takes a lot of effort to quiet my mind and even get up.
Then… it will shift for some reason… I’ll have a few good mornings and then I’ll start to fall apart at night. The paranoid thinking will kick in, I’ll panic more, the voices get louder and more distracting… I get confused easily.
I take my meds, all three, right when I wake up. I take my xanax on the bedside table, then eat and take my geodon and propranolol after I eat. It helps. Then I drink a mug of strong coffee, within an hour I am good to go.
But make no mistake, the mornings are not fun. They test my resolve every time.
I suggest that you take your meds as prescribed, and tell your doctor you are having lots of auditory hallucinations, I don’t have them as severely as you do, but I used to, before I got on medication.
Good luck and stay strong. Yes, the mornings are the worst, but they can be fought.
Well the reassurances are good, and I appreciate them. Knowing that it’s common is good, in the “at least it’s not just me” category. And I suppose there’s no single way to ease through it but ill just stick to what I’ve been doing and realize it’s just another aspect of sz and I’ve gotten through the morning every morning past so I can get through the next as well. Just wondering what worked for others, anything I haven’t thought of trying. Thanks again guys.
My mornings are bad only if I have not slept during the night at all. But if I sleep well and after few cups of coffee, my mornings typically start ok. Not sleeping is the worst, but gladly I have slept quite well nowadays.
Sheesh, I’m a monster in the morning. especially when someone wakes up very early, and all I hear is noise, noise noise!
not even the usual two cups of coffee can help me then. I am better when I have been waking up regularly, and not when I sleep past noon.
My mornings are the worst, too. My negative symptoms are almost unbearable at this time and all I want to do is sleep till noon when I will have a cup of coffee and biscuits with my husband, then only after that do I feel like doing anything if at all.
I’m about the same the past few weeks. No coffee, no function. Coffee is the only thing that gets me marginally moving right now otherwise I’d sleep 20hrs a day
tortoise. these are thoughts fresh after sleeping and probably are things disturbing your mind. you need to work out these things that are troubling you. really and truly try to think it over. is there another way to look at it? are you exaggerating something. is something else at the core here or at play?
Judy, It’s not necessarily thoughts that are overbearing, it’s all the external stimuli bombarding my senses. Combined with the confusions of waking up.(where am I? How long have I been out? What am I not doing that I was supposed to? Where the he’ll am I?) it takes me a while to get back into my body after sleeping, and I get so confused and clusterbombed.