[MsG]

Hi everyone I am Courtney and currently reside in LA, I say reside because throughout my life I have moved over 30 times (I'm 34). I like others am fed up with all the advice from “the sleepers” who say “listen to soft music, take a bath, get a new pillow or mattress or my personal favorite just tell yourself to relax. Really? Well I never thought of that?? So I can just say, “self relax and go to sleep.” Okay enough ranting.

What lead me to join this forum are the newest medications I've been prescribed for sleep and to get rid of the broken record of myself talking to myself in the 3rd person. My diagnosis from have ranged from schizophrenia, bipolar, ADD, ADHD, anxiety and extreme OCD. Really one person can have all of those??? I have now made an appointment with a new doctor because frankly I think it is the lack of sleep and high doses of meds that are making me feel this way.

God that felt good to just unload all that baggage into cyberspace. When I talk to my husband about my sleep and odd thoughts doesn't know what to say to me and I definitely can't share this info friends or family. So it will be nice to share and commiserate with all of my new compatriots from the great land of insomnia.

“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.” ~Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk

[Martin Reed]

Thanks for introducing yourself, Courtney and welcome to Insomnia Land. It's great to have you as a member and hopefully you'll be able to offer just as much support to our other members as you get back in return.

I'm a bit of a wanderer too. I'm 30 and have lived in the UK, Australia, Canada and now in the United States!

Your story about the 'insomnia cures' sure sounds familiar. I'd say it's perhaps the biggest complaint and frustration of insomnia sufferers. In any case, you'll find plenty of people who understand what you're going through here. Enjoy yourself, and I look forward to getting to know you better.

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[IvanAleisterMesniaa]

First off nice fight club reference there. I have the book and movie. I prefer the book.

I agree with you and feel the same over those self cures for insomnia, and I hate when they say to get rid of caffine in your diet. Coffee calms me and I find when I have a coffee in me im more at ease and relaxed.

You sure have moved a lot!

Welcome to the site and if you need someone to talk to you can email me at [email protected]!

[MarinaFournier]

'MsG' wrote on '24:

What lead me to join this forum are the newest medications I've been prescribed for sleep and to get rid of the broken record of myself talking to myself in the 3rd person. My diagnosis from have ranged from schizophrenia, bipolar, ADD, ADHD, anxiety and extreme OCD. Really one person can have all of those??? I have now made an appointment with a new doctor because frankly I think it is the lack of sleep and high doses of meds that are making me feel this way.

As a bipolar NOS, who knows various folks with AD(H)D, and OCD–as well as the usual anxiety that many folks without other diagnoses deal with–and who has read up on the subjects (my son has early onset bipolar, and I started by researching that–we were both diagnosed on the same day, even though we were there at the pdoc for him).

Do any of these conditions show up in your family history? I know your parents' generation may not talk about this, but it is possible that you can look at behaviors and guess rather well. In my family, and in my husband's family, the last generation had it, as far as we can tell–because it was never diagnoses or treated. In my husband's family, his brother and his eldest son have it–the brother seems to manage the cycles somehow, now–but his som in BPI, and doesn't follow instructions for his meds. My son and I are motivated to take ours due to wanting to avoid the deep depression we were each plagued with!

On one axis, we have ADD/ADHD to bipolar, don't know about OCD, on another, cyclothymia, bipolar, to schizoaffective disorder, and then to schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. However, I agree that you need a better/more definitive dx. Have you gone to one of the university psychiatric departments? That might get you someone better trained in diagnosis. What meds are you on presently?

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When I talk to my husband about my sleep and odd thoughts doesn't know what to say to me and I definitely can't share this info friends or family.

The odd thoughts sound like a mania or hypomania–very fast, sometimes painful thinking–but you do need to mention them to the doctor, including what else might be happening about that time, like sleep patterns.

Why can't you share this with friends and family? Now, we got a lot of flak from people when Arthur was dx'd–no such dx, you're drugging your kid instead of using discipline & behavior mods, you're drugging your kid, what an awful mom you are (no one ever said what an awful *dad* you are to my husband….), so I understand a certain reluctance.

Let me know how I can help you–I give good info.

Marina

“When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.” ~Fight Club written by Chuck Palahniuk

[MsG]

'IvanAleisterMesniaa' wrote on '25:

First off nice fight club reference there. I have the book and movie. I prefer the book.

I agree with you and feel the same over those self cures for insomnia, and I hate when they say to get rid of caffine in your diet. Coffee calms me and I find when I have a coffee in me im more at ease and relaxed.

You sure have moved a lot!

Welcome to the site and if you need someone to talk to you can email me at [email protected]!

Here is a funny uhmm cure I told about. Only in LA. It's called cupping. I guess the use glass cups press them your in such away that you end up with hekies (sp)

So it's 1230 and have exiled myself to the couch because I can here him say that I have too much energy and to calm down. Thanks Ivan ur address is in my contacts.

[Martin Reed]

Wait… that cupping method is supposed to cure insomnia?! 😆

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If you are ready to stop struggling with insomnia you can enroll in the online insomnia coaching course right now! If you would prefer ongoing phone or video coaching calls as part of a powerful three month program that will help you reclaim your life from insomnia, consider applying for the Insomnia Clarity program.

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