Sexual Assault Sleep Aids

[cherryblossom]

I used to stay up until 3 or 4 am, sometimes even later

Yeah, I miss our little chat over t'internet at 3am!! :p Only kidding my dear.... I'm so pleased to hear you are sleeping better these day.

 

[Crusoe]

Lol. Yer our chats were one of the very few positive things that came out of me avoiding sleep. X x x

 

[WonderingWhy]

Crusoe,

That method is basically what I am now doing.:oops:

 

[Nyx]

It really does mess up your sleep patterns, which are really hard to straighten. I still have a hard time falling asleep if I pass my usual hour. It's like I trained my body to go to sleep at midnight, but if that hour passes the body thinks "hey, she doesn't wanna go to sleep".

 

[Crusoe]

Crusoe,

That method is basically what I am now doing.:oops:

I did wonder if that was the case. Personally I would recommend trying to correct your sleep patterns now before they get too difficult to alter rather than waiting till I did and finding it almost impossible. I know it means you have flashbacks and intrusive thoughts to deal with along with the possibility of nightmares but there are other ways to handle them better.

 

[krystina]

Like I said before you should all try taking MELOTONIN. It is great. And it isn't even medicine so it won't mess up with any of the chemicals in your brain. It really helps my mom, my sister and me and my therapist and her kids use it to.

I fall asleep within a half an hour of taking it and helps me stay asleep.

 

[Lucycat]

Funnily enough in the UK Melatonin IS a drug and is prescribed.

But anyway, that is not why I have reviewed this thread.

I am really struggling with sleep at the moment. I was so proud of the fact I reduced my Quetiapine to 25 mg on 1st Nov, while I was on holiday. However since coming home, and all the problems that entailed, I realised I was drinking too much. T, quite rightly advised me to cut down and I have. However since I stopped drinking I cannot sleep properly. It is taking me hours to get to sleep, then Rory only needs to breathe and I wake again, and then on the last 2 mornings I have overslept for work. Despite sleeping late I wake up shattered and still tired.

Basically I have 2 choices - either start drinking again or increase the Q again. It will have to be the latter, but whatever I do leaves me with a sense of failure.

At work today I burst into tears over trivia, and I know it is just the tiredness so I really have to sort this - fast.

 

[Anna]

I find a hot bath followed by a nice warm milky drink or hot cocoa. Then a feel good film like a comedy. Then a big cuddle and under the warm duvet. I sleep with pyjamas and socks on plus a very thick duvet! ear plugs, dark room with door closed tight and darkness. It has to be completly silent or dark. Any light or sound wakes me up as I am a very light sleeper.

 

[Lucycat]

I still have difficulties with sleep - intermittently. But I do now hence re-activating this thread.

What I have done this week is to download an app onto my phone. It is called sleep cycle. You put your phone in you bed at night - beside but not underneath you - and it records motion through the night. It translates this into graphs to let you know at which time you were sleeping well, and not so. It takes several nights to build up a profile with useful data and I have only had it 2 nights so far, but already it is very interesting.

I was telling T about it tonight and he is going to get it so we can compare notes :)