[dstanc]

For the last week, I had the following experience.
I wake up, I feel fine for about thirty minutes.
But then there happens something in my brain.
It feels like the onset of something.
It feels like there is a metabolistic change in my brain and dirt is heaping up, causing a sort of burning feeling in my brain and in my body.
I have been feeling tired last week. I have troubles concentrating, memory problems, reading sentences and keeping my attention listening to more complex sentences. Also some sense of depression.
I am a 28 years old male. I have been diagnosed ASD and bipolar type II some months ago.
I had chronic sleep problems before this, but not something like this consistent for a week.
I have had bad days very frequently, but I could sleep them off the next day, because of the sleeping pressure.

Doing a diagnosis over the internet is not done, but does anything like this sound familiar?
I have a psychiatric family history: my mother has paranoid schizophrenia and she seems to react to everything after some count (which I am not sure is in the range of symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, but could be a first sign of something else, perhaps Alzheimer’s disease).
I have done sleep restriction before, from 8 hours to something like 7 hours and a quarter. However, this doesn’t seem like a good idea.
I have done an EEG checkup before (before I was diagnosed), in the context of sleep problems, but nothing did show up there. My neurologist said the cause is likely to be psychological or psychiatric.

[Martin Reed]

The best source of advice for your situation would be from a medical professional — the recommended treatment for chronic insomnia is usually cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) but there are contraindications for individuals with the mental diagnoses you’ve described.

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