Thread: A Guide To All Sleep Disorders

Originally Posted by kut_throat

Thanks for the links to those sites. I didnt know much about insomnia. All I knew what it was an inability to fall asleep or stay asleep. These sites have really helped me out with getting information on insomnia. Its been hard for me to get to understan what clinical insomnia is. I have found out what insomnia is from unaccredited sources.

Dear Kut_Throat, most people believe that insomnia is the ultimate opposite of hypersomnia, when they are clinically often closely related! This site remains a bundle of confusing garble for most people, I believe, but I am glad someone found some sort of help in it. The pathology of sleep is a very unpublished issue, since it was not widely recognised as an illness until very recently. There are very few specialist physicians in this area. And most of them are doing clinical work rather than writing the business up. Go to your library and have a look at sources such as Kryger's and Chokroverty's. The details in the polysomnography may be a little too much, though.

Good luck! Some advice from a colleague: Try reading a book, a difficult but NOT interesting one. The second, more important rule is to KEEP your eyes CLOSED, no use in keeping them open!!! If you are tired and nap in the afternoon: for every hour's nap, you have to go to bed TWO hours later at night! Don't use your bed for anything else than sleep and sex! The room must be dark and cooler, but yourself very warm and comfortable. Don't go to bed hungry or too over-eaten. Exercise in daytime, stop hours before bedtime. Keep a routine. Smoking will help you keep awake, drinking alcohol will wake you in the early morning hours, if you are sensitive. Coffee has no effect on me, but tea other than chamomile wakes me up (I haven't heard anybody else previously having this problem).

Man, I really would like to say thank you for your advise. My shrink has told me to do all those exact things. Im trying not watch tv when I got to bed, so ive started reading a book called "The Dark Order". I dont use my bed for anything but sleep and sex like you mentioned. lol I do smoke and agree it does keep me up at night some times. But I used to take trazadone for my insomnia, and that used to make me so drowzy when I woke up in the morning. But now that Im on Seroquel I have been waking up more refressed and less drowzy. Even if I dont get that much sleep like 4-5 hours of sleep I still wake up and I still feel refresed and with no drowziness. Again thats for the advice. It really does help. Because I dont get to meet with my shrink that offten. And any info, advise, or oppinions I get really does help. I have appointment to see my shrink like every 3 weeks if not more.