[Jen72]

This might souund insane. I was really angry and decided to hit my deodrant until it burst with that air thing. Then I had thoughts that all those chemicals have been in my brain and damaged the thalmus. I always hear about fatal insomina and it scares me so much. I tried to sleep but my brain would alert me as i try to drift off and say you should be asleep by now. I would be in that sleepy but awake stage. You might have fatal insomina. Im usually a nervous person.

[Jen72]

Plus im worried i might suffer badly from this or die

[hiker]

Hi Jen72, I am hoping you can locate a medical professional you can trust and talk to. Someone who will listen as you describe the anger in more detail, and who also can give a full exam to put your mind at ease about toxic chemicals. I think it is unlikely that you have sustained any sort of permanent damage, but let someone check you out. I am certainly glad that you did not puncture the can near an open flame, if I am reading this correctly.

Not sleeping can lead us to think all sorts of stuff and sometimes even act on those thoughts. Please know you are not alone when it comes to feeling really scrambled by insomnia.

[Chee2308]

LOL. No, you are completely mistaken because your sleep system is way more robust than you think. If the thalamus or whatever you think is controlling sleep was so easily damaged, we’d encounter many more cases of severe insomnia, severe sleep deprivation and way more deaths than we actually see. Think about this for a moment. At any time about 30% of people claim to suffer from some sort of sleep deprivation or insomnia of varying degrees. If the consequences were so severe and untreatable, surely billions of people would be dead by now! All the morgues would be full of corpses of people who just couldn’t sleep. 30% of a 7 billion world population is approximately 2.1 billion. Yet how many deaths do we see are attributed to insomnia, sleep deprivation, “sleep damaged” or anything even remotely related to sleep? Practically none! If the real life figures don’t add up, then the underlying notion can’t be true! Your mind is playing tricks with you and making you believe nonsense with absolutely no evidence to back it up. Rigorously question all your unhelpful thoughts and challenge the rationale behind it. Put them to the test from different angles and see if the real life results are what you expect to see. Most of the time, they don’t! Don’t be so gullible to believe every ‘lie’ your brain is telling you. Make it a habit to be naturally skeptical and most people do get better at spotting the falsehoods over time.

[Jen72]

It sucks to have an anixety problem. I hear about these few cases on youtube about people with fatal insomina. It just worsens my panic.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Jen72.

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[Jen72]

so happy I got 5 or more hours of sleep last night. It was all hyperarousal and that. Once I’m calmer, I can think better and sleep. I listened to a guided meditation that helped calm me down.

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