Pakadlangitok
Silver Member
I also deal with this. Or do not deal with it. In 2011, I lost the ability to sleep. It turns out I had a lot of arsenic in my body on top of the PTSD. At any rate, I have never gotten it back.
I was rehab myself before they opened a 24 hr a day mine behind my home. Then it was another year. When I say I have been 30 days in a row without sleep, I mean it. All my muscles were breaking down and I lost about 10% of my body weight.
Now I can take stuff and nothing happens. I have taken up to 21 pills (mix of herbs and other) with only about 2 hours being accomplished.
It is very hard to deal with. The best I can do is make sure that the natural light hits me, and turn off all lights at about 4pm. For the melatonin. I also have to be totally alone and have had the whole day alone in silence. If I let in any bit of excitement, it flips on again, like mania with constant adrenaline rushes. It's like I am an alien.
It's one of the hardest aspects of my PTSD.
I was rehab myself before they opened a 24 hr a day mine behind my home. Then it was another year. When I say I have been 30 days in a row without sleep, I mean it. All my muscles were breaking down and I lost about 10% of my body weight.
Now I can take stuff and nothing happens. I have taken up to 21 pills (mix of herbs and other) with only about 2 hours being accomplished.
It is very hard to deal with. The best I can do is make sure that the natural light hits me, and turn off all lights at about 4pm. For the melatonin. I also have to be totally alone and have had the whole day alone in silence. If I let in any bit of excitement, it flips on again, like mania with constant adrenaline rushes. It's like I am an alien.
It's one of the hardest aspects of my PTSD.
