I am able to sleep only for 2 to 3 hours a day.
Not sure why its happening.
Its been 2 weeks wonder why and have lost weight.
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If you aren’t tired you might be hypomanic. If you are exhausted then it is something else. Either one is insomnia and worth contacting your pdoc after a few days.
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Any recent changes in lifestyle or medication?
By changes in lifestyle I mean stuff that may increase your stress levels or make you worry constantly.
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Today I slept for 12 hours … 
I took 20 mg of meds and had sound sleep…
Feels so refreshed …
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Since I take a small dose of Olanzapine, my sleep has improved a lot
Takes a bit of searching, but there may be a medication solution
I’d bring this up with the doctor
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Yes I will talk to doc ,
but I visit in 6 months,
It one of the best in country due to which waiting period is about 3 hours…
After going there…
I dont want to add additional meds…
I have been in aripaprazole for almost 4 years now and in the last visit it was made 10 in morning and 10 in night…
I took 20 in night and had good sleep as before…
I dont want any addition meds to sleep…
Just concerned my system may change…or the arip won’t work…
But I will go to doc,
if this sleep pattern start to vary…
To a private doctor…
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That happened to me recently and I was ~manic~. Sudden onset of insomnia is usually the first warning sign I’m in a manic episode.
For me it was like I couldn’t sleep because I was bursting with nervous energy and so excited (for no known reason?) and my mind wouldn’t slow down and there were too many things I wanted to do to sleep.
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How are you now? What changes. You made ?
Well I was unfortunately unable to get in contact with my doctor so had to do self-treatment. I started by not forcing myself to go to sleep at a certain time and just letting my body sleep when it naturally wanted to. This helped me go from getting 0 hrs of sleep to arpund 3 hours of sleep a day, though it did make my circadian rhythm wacky. My sleep medicine was doing absolutely nothing even at the highest dose so I stopped taking it to lose tolerance. After a few weeks of this my mania started to wind down naturally & now that I had lost tolerance to my sleep med it worked again at the lowest dose. Now i have been able to use my sleep med to get a full nights rest.
I would recommend talking to your doctor if you can over doing what I did. I only did what I did because I couldn’t get an appointment.
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Glad to read you got your 12 hours of sleep.
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I slept once while working three days back and one of the Manager caught me sleeping, after that another manager requested my colleague keep an eye on me… 
I dont care now if they want they should through me off the company I won’t quit is one thing I have decided. 
Because all the company I worked I quit by self.
I have also got 30% hike in salary…
One thing is never ever shall I give my 100% for a job so that I won’t be disappointed.
And think of work only at time of work.
But this sleep is a different game…
I want to be in a controlled manic state but should not impact later on…
Thank you for asking.
I didn’t start. My symptoms flared up in expectation of starting and I decided it was too early. So now I’m going to start a Masters in Mental Health Science in January.
Trying to keep me active.
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Thats great doing your masters all the best !!!
So happy for you
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