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    Bipolar disorder .. Nightmares .. Sleep terrors ..

    Living with a wife or a girlfriend or even a close friend or a family member in the same place proved to be the wrong option for me .. and I raised the white flag in April 2019 and decided to live alone .. Have my own tiny place for myself ..
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    My life is much better now .. Feeling lonely while being alone is less tragic than feeling lonely while living with someone .. It's hard to deny the fact that I can't keep annoying others and ask them to understand that I can't help it .. In the end it's a mental illness
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    In brief my life during the past 2 years is a combination of acceptance , awareness and consideration .. all of this is depicted in frequent episodes of self isolation to avoid being seen in an embarrassing situation ..
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    it's been known for a long time that sleeping disorders are core parts of bipolar disorder symptoms .. It's not only a matter of insomnia .. it can be the opposite and sleeping for very long hours ( My highest record was 24 hours so far ) ..

    The worst part is actually waking up screaming after having a nightmare .. can you imagine how annoying can that be for people living with you ??? .. To be precise my screaming is just like a defense mechanism .. as if I do it to wake myself up and end the terror .. screaming or shouting is like being in pain but being aware in the same time .. sometimes I'm so aware that I remember being in a dream and knowing that it's just another bad dream that will end soon ..
    during the past few nights i had several nightmares were I was waking up without screaming with a happy odd feeling .. I was telling people in my dream : it's just a bad dream and I'm just waiting to wake up and end this silly pathetic try to scare me ..
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    Unfortunately it's not always like that ..this morning the story was totally different and I was screaming helplessly without waking up .. actually my older son woke me up and told me that my screaming was louder than usual ( my son lives part time with me ) ..
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    There should be some solutions for this .. Or maybe prescription for this .. I remember hearing about a medication that can help you have less nightmares .. and I remember reading about it too ( I wasn't dreaming , I hope ) .. If anybody can recommend a drug for this please mention it in a comment ..

    Thank you ..
    Last edited by Jafar the wizard; November 27, 2020, 01:55 AM.

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    hello Jafar.. Mydoc prescribes clonazpam . It"s a benzo so for some people it works well. It is also very cheap.. It's said to be addictive for some people. However it works well for me. I know how tough nightmares can be. For yrs I suffered terrible from nightmares. It got so bad that I would try and stay awake as long as possible just to push back the nightmare that I knew would come. Take Care. paul m
    "Alone we can do so little;
    Together we can do so much"
    Helen Keller

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      #3
      Thank you paul ..
      have you done anything to stop nightmares from coming back ?
      Last edited by Jafar the wizard; November 27, 2020, 02:18 PM.

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        Hello Jafar. I rely on the medication for it some times..But I also had a bit of help from my shrink. He managed to convince me of value of self worth. I now try and reassure my self that I was a good person with a bad illness and not a bad person with good excuses. I try to reassure myself several times a week that I too am a good person , although I don't say that I am the best of people(at Least) He reminded me that many of the things from my past caused nightmares. For many years I did think that I was a bad person..Take Care. paul m
        "Alone we can do so little;
        Together we can do so much"
        Helen Keller

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          Thank you paul

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            #6
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            Last edited by Erpyria; May 6, 2021, 09:03 AM.

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