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I have the results from my sleep deprivation therapy. The mild effect was only for one night. Then it`s gone.
I tried acupuncture. With a relatively good specialist. The specialist was a Russian guy, not Chineese. It had NO effect on my terrible insomnia at all!!! I found a real Chineese doctor (but in another town). He sais he can help me. But I`m not sure now. Because I already had a bad experience with acupuncture.
I didn`t try yoga. If someone had experience with it, it would be interesting to know what impact on insomnia and how much relief does it have.
What I know from the literature is that the maximal number of days one can survive w/o sleep is between 7 and 15. Longer times – and you die.
Hi chiefboats!
Thank you for your letter. I don’t get support from my relatives at all. They simply don’t care about my condition. They care only about themselves. I tried all!!! possible pills with sedative effect (neuroleptics, antidepressants and benzos) and different their combinations, up to 10 pills at night. Nothing worked longer than a couple nights then stopped. I also tried the strongest ones. No results. The same is true with injections which I did myself at home.
I also have been reading A LOT about my condition and how to cure it. This is great that ppl in the forum had helped you! 6-8 hrs of sleep is fantastic! How did you manage to achieve that? Yes, I want the same result…and I have been working towards of it.
I have my first results from my sleep deprivation therapy. Firstly, I didn’t manage to stay active for 2.5 days. After 2 whole days my brain started to swith off when I was sitting in front of PC. I felt EXHAUSTED to say mildly. And I was terribly sleepy. I couldn’t resist it anymore. When I didn’t sleep for 4 days, I was mainly staying in bed in awful condition. During the therapy I wasn’t allow to get a horisontal position. So, it maid the difference. Since my brain started to switch off and I couldn’t resist it anymore, I decided to quit and get a horisontal position. To my big suprise, I immediately fall asleep and slept for six hrs. The quality of sleep was bad, but it was my own sleep without any sleep aids for the first time over the last five yrs! Today in the midday I was very tired and lay down on my bad. To my second surprise, I again fell asleep for one hr. It was not refreshing sleep whatsoever. But I managed to sleep.
Now I should see what will be the impact of this therapy on my sleep for a few days and then consult with my doc to repeat the procedure. And also should ask him if one allowed to dring stimulants when the brain switches off. I should also ask him about my sideeffects which I experience due to the therapy.
Let’s see it I manage to sleep this night.
Hello Martin!
Sorry, I didn`t see your reply to my message. I was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder several years ago. When my the 1st psychosis happened I had NO sleep problems. The insomnia started a couple days before the manifestation of my second psychosis. Five yrs ago. Psychosis is over long time ago but insomnia is present all this period of time. I read a lot of articles about PARTICULARLY MY insomnia and came to the conclusion that it is caused by neurotransmitters imbalance. In psychiatric papers I had found that the way to correct this disbalance is to do ECT (Electroconvulsive therapy). I did it. It restored my sleep (without changing any sleep habit!!!) . BUT!!! only for several days.
I’m in a big trouble with my sleep. I have tried so many approaches to restore my sleep (at least partly!) but I didn’t have a stable result from any of them.
