Its 8 am and i havent slept all night.
I think if i fall asleep i would sleep szsleep.
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It’s 8:30 here. I woke up an hour ago or so and i feel good 
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Im feeling good though.
You sleep when you feel peace. And sz peace nobody can take from you. So if i go to sleep with sz peace…i would sleep.szsleep.
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I just close my eyes and hope for the best.
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Close to midnight here. I just slept about 5 hours because I needed to. As and when and how I can.
I sleep on my back.
yes… there are many sleep anomalies in szs…
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I stay awake all night thinking the stars are talking to me when psychotic. On meds I sleep all day
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My sleep is still the wrong way round. Im up at 2am (UK) every morning - and end up back in bed by 4pm. But i been worried lately so hoping i can get back to normal soon. I sorely miss the quetiapine i was on, i could take a dose and happily sleep for 12 hours. i still get 10hours sleep , but its screwing up my appointments with my Community Support worker cos im usually to knackered during the day to talk about anything constructive by the time i see him in the afternoon.
When i’m psychotic i don’t sleep at all. when i’m not on medication it’s restless and disturbed, horrible nightmares and panic. I think i read a study saying our brainwaves were different, disrupted or something during sleep. so i’d say yes. I always figured lack of sleep was the reason i hallucinated so badly, subconscious leaking out into reality.
Since I was a little kid I haven’t had regular sleep patterns. Falling asleep is usually the hardest part, but if I don’t stress about it it’s not as bad. I wake up many times during the night and could just get up but I make myself stay in bed Incase I might fall back to sleep (After an hour I can get up). I’m always up long before my husband.
I would say that my sleep pattern is restless.
I rarely sleep more than 5 hours a night, even with a sleep aid. Then, suddenly, I go for the other extreme and catch a solid 12-15 hours in one night.
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Before meds I was sleeping very little and when I did sleep, I had bizarre snd surreal dreams. I thought that there were these beings influencing my dreams trying to get my attention. Now I don’t really remember my dreams even right after I wake up.
Decreased need for sleep is a common but not a diagnostically required symptom of either a manic or psychotic episode.
For perhaps 10 years I have had great difficulty awakening in the morning. It took all of my will power to get up. I found that getting 10 hours of sleep at night made it a little easier to get up in the morning. I am on Zyprexa now. I was on Clozapine and some other AP meds. My doctor refuses to lower the meds.
We either sleep too much or too little.
I’m a sleeper, most days I just ly down and fall asleep, I miss a lot of TV shows by lying on the couch 
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