[IvanAleisterMesniaa]

lthough there are several different degrees of insomnia, three types of insomnia have been clearly identified: transient, acute, and chronic.

1. Transient insomnia lasts from days to weeks. It can be caused by another disorder, by changes in the sleep environment, by the timing of sleep, severe depression, or by stress. Its consequences – sleepiness and impaired psychomotor performance – are similar to those of sleep deprivation.

2. Acute insomnia is the inability to consistently sleep well for a period of between three weeks to six months.

3. Chronic insomnia lasts for years at a time. It can be caused by another disorder, or it can be a primary disorder. Its effects can vary according to its causes. They might include sleepiness, muscular fatigue, hallucinations, and/or mental fatigue; but people with chronic insomnia often show increased alertness. Some people that live with this disorder see things as if they are happening in slow motion, wherein moving objects seem to blend together. Can cause double vision.

Patterns of insomnia

1. Onset insomnia – difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of the night, often associated with anxiety disorders.

2. Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia – Insomnia characterized by difficulty returning to sleep after awakening in the middle of the night or waking too early in the morning. Also referred to as nocturnal awakenings. Encompasses middle and terminal insomnia.

3. Middle insomnia – waking during the middle of the night, difficulty maintaining sleep. Often associated with pain disorders or medical illness.

4. Terminal (or late) insomnia – early morning waking. Often a characteristic of clinical depression.

From wiki.

I have Chronic insomnia. Anyone know what theirs is?

[astradaemon]

Chronic insomnia. At one point, I couldn't even recognize friends and family, so that's when the hard core medical testing began. My docs think my brain has a dysfunctional sleep/wake cycle.

[IvanAleisterMesniaa]

'astradaemon' wrote on '02:

Chronic insomnia. At one point, I couldn't even recognize friends and family, so that's when the hard core medical testing began. My docs think my brain has a dysfunctional sleep/wake cycle.

Yeah I can understand that, my insomnia has gotten to the point where I do sleep but the sleep doesn't do anything, it's like I never slept, then I have days where I just don't sleep.

My chronic leg pain doesn't help either. Mine gets so bad combined with my leg pain I'm barely coherent and my breathing is heavy and I get double vision.

Among other things.

[Martin Reed]

I've seen these three types of insomnia mentioned a number of times. I wonder if it is really that easy to label everyone's type of insomnia into just three categories?

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[IvanAleisterMesniaa]

'Martin' wrote on '02:

I've seen these three types of insomnia mentioned a number of times. I wonder if it is really that easy to label everyone's type of insomnia into just three categories?

I personally believe there are probably many more forms of insomnia yet discovered and that it isn't so easy to just pick one and say this is the one I got.

[Caers]

Mine is chronic insomnia, and I've had it since I was a baby. There was never any event that caused it. And it's well documented in my medical records, sleeping medications don't work, and I've rarely slept more than two to three hours at a stretch. *shrug* My current anxiety/panic meds make me sleep up to 15 hours a day though, but it isn't a restful sleep, and tbh I feel worse now than I did when I wasn't sleeping. Medicated sleep screws with my head.

[Kik]

Chronic insomnia but my sleeping patterns are a mix of Onset insomnia and Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia.

My sleep experience is frustrating to say the least.

[MarinaFournier]

'IvanAleisterMesniaa' wrote on '01:

Yeah I can understand that, my insomnia has gotten to the point where I do sleep but the sleep doesn't do anything, it's like I never slept, then I have days where I just don't sleep.

I've been there, a lot of my life, but especially in my deeper depressions, before & after the bipolar dx.

You have my sympathy–I do know that cycle.

[MarinaFournier]

IvanAleisterMesniaa wrote in February:

Though there are several different degrees of insomnia, three types of insomnia have been clearly identified: transient, acute, and chronic.

1. Transient insomnia lasts from days to weeks. It can be caused by another disorder, by changes in the sleep environment, by the timing of sleep, severe depression, or by stress. Its consequences – sleepiness and impaired psychomotor performance – are similar to those of sleep deprivation.

Serzone did that to me. It was severe sleep deprivation. Idiot pdoc.

2. Acute insomnia is the inability to consistently sleep well for a period of between three weeks to six months.

Used to have that every few years. I'd fall asleep at 4, have to get up at 6, and get through the day in a zombielike fashion, for 3-4 months at a time. I hope I'm done with that.

3. Chronic insomnia lasts for years at a time. It can be caused by another disorder, or it can be a primary disorder. Its effects can vary according to its causes. They might include sleepiness, muscular fatigue, hallucinations, and/or mental fatigue; but people with chronic insomnia often show increased alertness. Some people that live with this disorder see things as if they are happening in slow motion, wherein moving objects seem to blend together. Can cause double vision.

I think mine stopped at mental fatigue, constant sleepiness, and occasionally muscle fatigue.

Patterns of insomnia

1. Onset insomnia – difficulty falling asleep at the beginning of the night, often associated with anxiety disorders.

You. Used to–we'll see how well my sleep initiator machine works in the coming months. Also, when I have to get up earlier than usual, or have something important the next day, my body/brain will keep me awake as if to torture me!

2. Middle-of-the-Night Insomnia – Insomnia characterized by difficulty returning to sleep after awakening in the middle of the night or waking too early in the morning. Also referred to as nocturnal awakenings. Encompasses middle and terminal insomnia.

Happens especially when I can't breathe well or am coughing without letup. Darned hard to fall asleep when *you* are making the noise, and it's making you move.

3. Middle insomnia – waking during the middle of the night, difficulty maintaining sleep. Often associated with pain disorders or medical illness.

That has been my usual pattern, right after onset insomnia.

4. Terminal (or late) insomnia – early morning waking. Often a characteristic of clinical depression.

If something disturbs me aurally (by sound) or movement, I'll wake early and not be able to get back to sleep.

I'm such fun!

[Mike Love]

Why does your back problem keep you awake

[Edgar]

I’ve had a mixture of onset and middle-of-the-night insomnia for most of my life, never the transient kind.

Now, for the past few years it’s exactly the other way around – excusively the transient variety, very rarely any of the other two.

I don’t mind that doctors put insomniacs into perhaps somewhat arbitrary categories, I just wish for better understanding and treatment of insomnia in general. I think most docs still view it exclusively as a symptom of something else and not a disorder in itself, which I certainly think insomnia is.

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