Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 24 Location: Just moved back to Newcastle,
Problems Sleeping! Posted: 02-10-06 07:10am
Hiya!
I just want to know if this is normal and
if anyone else gets this.
The last few nights I have not been able
to fall asleep, I feel a cold, fuzzy,
sinking feeling flash/shudder through me
and it makes me twitch, sometimes 3 times
in a row, it really freaks me out. Im
not sure if this is an anxiety or panic
attack as I feel fine as im falling
asleep. I also wake up early morning to
a horrible scary feeling like my house is
haunted or something :cry:
the last 2 nights ive tried forcing myself
to stay awake and im starting to feel so
tired.
My anxiety seems to be getting worse, and
im not sure whats to do, ive tried talking
to my partner who just gets angry telling
me to "sort it out" he wont allow me to
take tablets and thinks me seeing a
counsellor makes it worse. He really
gets mad at me when I cry which I do alot
recenty. I havnt left the house in a few
days not even to work! :cry:
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Naixius
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Feb 2006 Posts: 16 Location: Universe
Posted: 02-18-06 08:04am
Are you live alone? Are you live in a
rental house? Do you watch horrible movie
before sleep?
I suggest you to buy a new bed which was
more comfortable and clean out your room
in tidy.. I guess this was just a feng
shui problem. Do you know fengshui mean
what? Our room got to have a bright
vision, does you? Room must clean daily.
Maybe your room got dust which caused you
hardly to get sleep.
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germjunkie
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 3
Depression? Posted: 02-22-06 04:29am
This sounds like insomnia due to
depression.
I am concerned that your partner won't
"let you" take tabs...Could a controlling
relationship be causing this?
Take care and get all the help you feel
you need. Speaking from personal
experience anxiety/depression only get
worse if you don't treat the problem.
Ask your doctor about lexapro, it's an
antidepressant that made me very sleepy at
first, so I took it at night and it helped
both the insomnia and the depression.
There is light at the end of the tunnel,
stand up for what you need.
Nicole
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sophira
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 37 Location: MN, USA
Posted: 02-22-06 17:08pm
This is absolutely an anxiety/depression
symptom, and one I had in a bad way (in
addition to the old "can't get enough air"
feeling). It was just like you describe
it: you're on that fence between sleeping
and waking, and suddenly you jerk hard, or
you twitch (for me it was any limb, like a
leg, shoulder, sometimes even my abdomen
jerked hard enough that I nearly sat
myself up!). Seems like when it happened
to me, I was literally unable to actually
get to sleep either for hours, sometimes
for the entire night. I could only sleep
every other night, on the nights when I
was so exhausted, there was no choice.
Oddly, I get the creepy haunted feeling on
wake up quite often, even now. It's
usually associated with bad dreams though;
I have those a lot.
I was lucky--mine is pretty minor now and
was only worsened by circumstances at the
time.
As for you, your partner needs to shape up
or ship out! That is so wrong and sounds
completely unsupportive. It won't help
*at all*. What you need is to get at the
source of your anxiety or depression--a
counsellor would help that a lot, and a
decent prescription will probably help a
lot with the sleep problem until you can
live without it. (i found elavil helpful,
especially since one of the side-effects
is sleepiness, heh.) and the previous
poster could be right--your often-angry
partner might very well be the cause--at
the very least, it's probably exacerbating
the problem to a degree. Kick him in the
pants! :d
