[Planeador]

2 month ago, I was working on the final proyect of a Master degree, when my wife, who is depressive, had a crisis.

I didn’t sleep well the last 4 months, 6 to 5 hours, I supposed that it was something about body watch.

1 month and half ago, during my wife crisis and hospitalisation, I woke up suddenly one nigth at 2 am, feeling scared, due to my wife words, suicides and death threats.

We are almost alone in Switzerland, my wife, my son and me. I am in charge of looking after my 8 years old boy. I have to drive 3 hours per day.

I passed 6 to 7 nights almost with out sleep. When my wife came back to home, I recovery some hours sleep, 5 to 6 hours for a week.

After my wife and me argued, and insomnia came again. 1 month ago my mother in law came and she usually makes comments about my wife depression, blaming me.

My wife works aks her to move to a Dakar Senegal, we are dealing with all contracts and changes that we need to do in order to continue.

The last 15 days I have started treatment with general doctor. First week I took stilnox- zolpidem 10 mg. It worked on me relatively, some I falled sleep until 6 hours, others just 3 hours per nights. During those days I Started to feel really depressive, guilt, anguish and sadness.

– After 9 days with zolpidem, my doctor and me came at conclusion that I got depressed also, because I had old story with it when I was younger, 15 years ago.

– My doctor recommended me Remeron – Mirtazapinum, that it would be help me with depression and sleep. After 5 days, I’m still having problems with insomnia, some days I slept 5 – 6 hours others just 2 or 3.

– When I slept well more than 5 hours, I feel recovery and really motivated, but when I don’t sleep I feel really depressive. Why I some days getting some recovery and others nothing.

– I have a 20 minutes routine of running and try eat well, go bed at almost same time, some meditation too.

I hope your experience could help me.

Thanks you for your comments.

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Planeador.

[Jonathan618]

I hope you are not running and eating even close to bed time. That would explain it all.

[Sleep_less]

I am very sorry for your situation. Obviously there has been too much stress in your life lately. Have you ever thought about consulting a psychologist? In my opinion, it’s unlikely that drugs alone will help. I wish you good luck and speedy recovery!

[Martin Reed]

With all that stress in your life, it’s little wonder that your sleep is disrupted. Have you discussed cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) techniques with your doctor? This might be a good option for you to consider — especially since one of the early goals is to consolidate sleep and make it a bit more consistent and predictable (so, fewer roller-coaster nights of lots of sleep then minimal sleep, and so on).

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