Sometimes I try to go to sleep and just can’t get into it, then an hour or two later I’m exhausted and sleep for eight hours. Why isn’t it a more continuous process where the less tired I am the less time I need to sleep? Instead it seems to be that I need to hit some threshold for tiredness before I can sleep at all.
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I don’t know the reason, but I think it kinda does work that way.
So about 10 years ago I was going through a really bad point in my life.
I started seeing a psychologist, who recommended a psychiatrist.
The psychiatrist said I must be on the bipolar spectrum and put me on depakote.
500 mg, 2xdaily.
The thing about that drug is that it keeps your brain from switching gears.
So I wasn’t having any psychotic episodes, but I also wasn’t in a good mood, or a bad mood, wasn’t anxious, wasn’t depressed,
All I felt was boredom.
Eternal boredom.
So the funny thing is depakote kept me from sleeping.
For days. And days.
Usually I would be up for 5 days without sleep, sometimes 7days.
I was extremely delirious and I could feel shadows creeping all around me.
But I wasn’t tired, just bored.
Then eventually I’d fall unconscious.
If I was up for 5 days I’d usually sleep for about 17 hours, then get up and start the cycle again.
If I was up for 7 days I’d usually sleep for 23 hours.
I’m happily unmedicated at this point in my life, but i do still suffer from insomnia from time to time
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