[KDB1991]

Basically this is what happened … about 7 years ago i used to smoke weed daily for about a year …. one day i decided to quit and i had terrible withdrawls at one point the inside of my head felt as if it were being set on fire … long story short … after that experience i never was able to fall asleep … honestly i never yawn … i never feel sleepy or drowsy or tired … i am constantly awake all the time … i lay in bed at night but never sleep … its like i have lost the ability to sleep again … i know that all this may sound crazy or impossible but ive been this way for years … i never told anyone because i fear they would not believe me.

[Ally]

Hi there…

This sounds so awful! It sounds like that Christian Bale movie The Machinist.

I’m so sorry you are experiencing it.

I do have one question for you… how do you function in the world with literally no sleep? I can barely function on the few hours I get in a night. I can’t even imagine what would happen if someone had no sleep at all.

Are you able to work? Drive? Move through the world at all?

Ally

[NWSleepy]

If you cannot do Martin’s course, I recommend you keep reading this forum, listening to his podcast, and use the Veterans Administration free app called — CBT-i Coach. These things have helped me immensely. Good luck!

[Martin Reed]

I am sorry to hear about your struggles with sleep over the past seven years. As implied by others, it might be helpful to consider any sleep you have managed to get over the past seven years because this serves as evidence that you can sleep. Nobody can remain awake with zero sleep for seven years!

So, you might not be getting as much sleep as you want or getting the sleep quality you want, but you are getting some sleep, even if that only occurs from time to time and doesn’t feel very good. The key, then, is getting that sleep to last longer and to occur more frequently, more consistently, and to feel more restorative — and usually, this is done by building sleep drive, strengthening the body clock, and lowering arousal.

Evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques can help with this — you might want to discuss CBT-I with your doctor if you haven’t done so already.

Good luck, and I hope this helps!

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