Or at least that’s what someone’s claiming on Twitter
My voices always let me sleep except for one night I was up most of the night in hospital with Anthony and John. When I came home I also had another night I was up pretty late but I eventually slept. They would come straight away in the morning too waking me up. It’s still the first thing I listen for when I wake up nowadays. I don’t really hear them in the morning as much Anymore.
A quick reboot from a nap often helps me see things more clearly but I could not sleep when I was psychotic.
For me, sleeping my psychosis away is like rebooting a computer to see if the problem goes away.
Often it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
But if I’m having symptoms and are able to sleep, it does help
I wouldn’t say it gets me out of psychosis but it passes the time while I await a saner day, And I personally think recovering from psychosis requires plenty of rest so in a way I see what he’s saying.
Sleep is very connected to psychosis. Average people who go too long without sleep will experience symptoms of psychosis. Also, if a person with a psychotic disorder is not getting sleep their symptoms will become much worse and it can trigger an episode. From personal experience, I actually stopped having major episodes once I was out of the lower education system and could sleep in, getting the amount of sleep my body needed. Though it did not completely remove my symptoms.
Thus sleep is not a cure for psychosis, but it can certainly have drastic effects on it and the two are very related.
IF I can get to sleep, then this is true for me. It’s often a race to see if I can get to sleep before the psych stuff gets so bad I can’t sleep though.
It’s not always the best best remedy, but when it works I definitely appreciate it.
I sometimes force myself to sleep when I am psychotic. Often, the voices revoly as I fall asleep. I just feel absolutely awful when I’m hearing things and I just want it to stop. It just feels horrible.
In all my hospitalizations, sleeping was the main way I killed time.
If I’m asleep, I’m not suffering.
The hospitals I was in didn’t want to you to be in your room sleeping. They wanted you out mingling with everybody else and going to art classes (which I hate) or going to groups. I slept most of the day anyway.
One psyche ward meant business though, they locked me out of my room so I couldn’t go sleep in there. I just curled up on the floor in front of my door and tried to take a nap, lol. They squelched that plan too.
Yeah, I depend on Twitter for all my advice and news and solutions to my problems.
In the main psych hospital I was in you either went to the OT centre to do things or the ITU .
I hear voices even in sleep
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