No. My GP when told I dont sleep handed me a print out fit for a 2 year old that says dont drink coffee or eat chocolate before bed, after I said no to sleeping pills. He wrote on the bottom of the print out a certain antihistamine if I get desperate. He did not even acknowledge let alone address the fact that going without sleep for 3 or 4 days and yet not feeling tired...isnt normal. Just tried to give me something to 'make' me sleep instead of finding out why I wasnt sleeping or feeling tired. = an easy out for him. Pay as you go out the door. I'm glad I said no. That was before PTSD came up and only because I refused the drugs, was the diagnosis ever made, because the symptoms werent masked. Thats like trying to stick a bandage over a cut foot and leaving the glass in there. The bandage hides the glass. The problem is still there and will keep cutting your foot.
I studied the Pineal and circadian rhythms (sleep patterns) some 30 years ago, so to be handed this 2 year old piece of paper telling me to take drugs and not drink coffee before bed? Shaken yes. Confused and frustrated yes. Brain dead not yet. What was happening was 'not' normal.
I now know about 'stuck in high gear adrenal glands'. Now it makes sense. I'm stuck in fight or flight. It makes perfect sense. That would keep me at a high state of alert which is a biological response to 'perceived danger'. This is nature telling you to 'get out of there fast'. Nature is not gong to tell you to lay down, take drugs and take a nap in those circumstances.
This forum has been a god send, with the information on a) the actual condition b) the various components of it c) being among others who also fall over words and are doing dumb sh*t which is out of character. Its making sense at last. And I have some understanding of what is causing this at a physical level. So now I know what we need to tackle. ie getting 'out' of fight or flight.
This site also had a list (thank you so much) of holistic and natural medicine providers (did I say thank you so much?) and people who I would feel more comfortable with, and who address holistic balance, restoring balance, which includes the fact that organs (inc adrenal glands) can also be affected by what I have been going through.
My goal is to step by step address, the triggers (what caused it and removing myself from the arena causing fight or flight) and then slowly slowly, little steps little steps, healing my body and restoring balance.
The brain works on both electrical signals (via chemistry) and chemical compositions of blood and feedback from organs etc. My communications system is down. The brain is not receiving 'normal input' and is not giving out normal responses while in fight or flight.
Rebalancing for me (before the accident) was a daily thing. It maintained good health. I have contacted some eastern medicine practitioners now, who might, through a series of physical exercises, be able to prompt me to do those very thing I am not doing, which I know bring back balance. Until my own ability to do it by myself comes back.
No, I will not be using drugs. I believe the aim of what those drugs are for, can be achieved by other means. That doesnt mean this path is suitable for each person, but its suitable for me. I am not a number, an average or a statistic. I am the sum total of my whole life until now. Nobody else in the world is the same, nor me the same as them. Treatment should be (I believe) tied to whatever will work best 'with' that one person. Not 'at them'.
EDIT: My god that actually sounded like *me*
