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Ahoy! The name is Francis Franky Joseph Finlayson, you can call me Franky, or Frank, Frankie, or whatever nickname you do come up with.
I've suffered from insomnia since six years old, it started out with just taking a while to fall asleep, then it progressed into difficulty staying asleep and ultimately into lack of sleep altogether.
I've had many stressful things in my life ever since childhood, I'm not too sure what my insomnia came from, I've had doctors and psychiatrists tell me it's from as a kid I was a cynical and blunt kid, I didn't want to make friends, I didn't like people I still don't like people really, they tell me I have Schizoid personality disorder, and something else.
My insomnia slowed down a bit as a grew, when I hit 14 and my mother developed Schizophrenia and split personalities and tortured me thinking I was Lucifer himself. That started my insomnia back up, that is when I stopped sleeping altogether, was trying to deal with that, and cope with school, I didn't fit in, Misanthropic, cynical blunt and logical. Not in a school based on religion where gay people couldn't had to fight to get into prom together, where if you were not popular, the kids and even teachers tossed you to the side.
I continued to struggle with insomnia, moved out of the house because my mother got better but blamed everything on me, and our family when the reason this happened to her was coming off like 100+ sleeping pills a month cold turkey.
My mother came back into my life and apologized and we're a family now, that girl I dated cheated on me after almost 4 years of being together, now I'm living with my folks, 20 years old now, and my sleep is just irregular, some nights I sleep 8-10 hours but when I awake it feels liek I never slept one bit, other nights I don't sleep at all.
In conclusion, pleasure to meet you all ma'ams and sirs.
'LindsayK' wrote on '01:Nice to meet you, Franky!
The pleasure is all mine I assure you.
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Welcome, and see you around the boards!
Welcome to the community, Franky – it's great to have you here. Thank you for sharing your story.
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'mspeekay' wrote on '01:Thanks for being so frank Franky. 😉
Nice to meet you
Paula
Any excuse to crack a joke, eh? 🙂
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Nice to meet you, Franky! Was it hard making up with your parents? I'm glad to hear things are going better with them now, but it's never easy growing up with parents with any kind of disorder. My mom has had chronic anxiety since I was ten and that was hard to deal with, I can't imagine what it must have been like for you. Also having insomnia since you were six! Wow! What was that like being in school?
'primaryantagonist' wrote on '02:Nice to meet you, Franky! Was it hard making up with your parents? I'm glad to hear things are going better with them now, but it's never easy growing up with parents with any kind of disorder. My mom has had chronic anxiety since I was ten and that was hard to deal with, I can't imagine what it must have been like for you. Also having insomnia since you were six! Wow! What was that like being in school?
School was boring, the insomnia made it very long, very long. I failed first grade because I wasn't able to hear, or read, I had ear infections all the time, and couldn't get over them, they found out I was allergic to milk and it was causing ear infections. I got over it started drinking skim milk and could hear again, started to read.
The insomnia took a few tolls on me while in school, but I got through it.
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