When I sleep well, my mind in the next morning is very clear. My meds help to achieve this. How is your sleep?
I sleep too much. I typically sleep between 10 and 14 hours. I sleep so much that sometimes I only wake up because my back is sore. If I try to force myself to wake up though it is worse. I become a zombie. I eat brains. I decay. I slowly chase down passers by all the time thinking ‘Dude I’m barely moving here all you have to do to get away from me is a brisk walk.’ I’m not like one of those fancy new zombies that can run and stuff. That is lame. I am a strictly old school, George A. Romero kind of zombie.
I sleep bad. I wake up several times every night.
What am I doing still awake? Where am I? Who are you people?
Healthy sleep is important. My sleep schedule was whacked out for a very long time. It stabilized sometime several years ago when I began to stabilize.
However I am typing this at 2am. I slept last night but did not sleep at all the night before. This is not entirely out of the ordinary for me though. It may happen once or twice a year now. If it continued off and on for a week then I’d begin to get concerned.
I have not slept the whole night and only took a short nap just now. It is 4 o’clock in the afternoon.
In the past 2 weeks, my sleep has become so screwed up, I think I need to talk to my neurologist about it. It may be the Depakote or Keppra causing it. My pdoc threw non-benzo sleeping pills at me (good, I don’t like benzos), but they’re not working. My current pattern is up for 36 hours, down for 10. I do not like it.
Hey @Plumber, how are ya?
Yes, I’m good. But not so with the Linux system.
Can I help? 20 characters.
I constantly wake with a medication hangover. Mind you I’ve never been a morning person. Not that I don’t like mornings, just wish they where later in the day! My sleep the past week has been so out of wack waking 3-4 in the morning and not being able to get back to sleep. Although managed to sleep through last night. Hopeful that means I can get back on schedule of decent sleep as seems to affect my moods and thought patterns. Was just at the doctors and he did ask if I needed sleepers but I said "No, I’m getting to sleep, just waking through the night. Sleep as you said has a big impact on our mental health. For those that get manic tends to be that sleeplessness ie disturbed sleep, tossing and turning etc is the first sign an manic episode is about to hit.
The Linux failed to detect the external WLAN. Unable to download the driver because that is the only PC. No wired connection allowed. Re-configuration of Wi-Fi encryption not possible. Despite the connection issues, I was able to use the Linux system to transfer document from my Outlook.com app on the smartphone to my PC and use Libre Office to peek at it before I copied over to another USB stick. Basically the Linux makes my PC a useful PC without Internet connection.
That’s a bummer. Maybe try another newbie-friendly distro like Ubuntu. Matter of fact, why don’t you give that a shot? You seem to be a fast learner and computer savvy, give Ubuntu a shot:
Okay, I’ve bookmarked it. Thanks.
Another distro you may want to check out is open SuSE:
http://software.opensuse.org/131/en
It uses rpm instead of deb as it’s packaging format, and also uses KDE instead of Cinnamon. Ubuntu uses GNOME instead of Cinnamon. Which is superior to which is likely to ignite a flamewar.
/Sorry, let’s get back on topic.
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Sleep depends on the day for me… If I can use up enough energy, I can sleep pretty soundly.
But if it’s a light day then I’m up a lot. If something is bothering me, I’ll end up sleep walking. I think where I wake up after sleep walking will give me a clue to what’s bothering me.
I feel refreshed after a good nights sleep, 7 - 8hrs My sleeping patterns are not consistent - one night 7hrs, the next night 4-5hrs, but I am doing a bit better with sleep