Posted by alexandra_k on June 23, 2005, at 2:20:06
In reply to Dissociative Identity Disorder, posted by daff on June 20, 2005, at 22:18:24
Hello. Hope you are still checking this board...
I don't have trouble sleeping anymore, but I most certainly used to. I'd not be able to get to sleep until around 3am and then feel just terrible if I had to drag myself out of bed before 10. I started taking Imovane / Zopiclone. It worked really well to start with and I was asleep in 20 minutes. After four years... I was on 2 per night and still struggling to get to sleep at 3am.
But if I didn't take them then there was no chance of sleep.
Eventually I just managed to take a week out and stop them completely. After that it took about 3 months and a routine which REQUIRED me to get up at a reasonable hour to get me sleeping properly. I only have trouble now when I'm really thinking or worrying about something.
Thats just my experience with sleeping tablets.
Since then the times that I've really needed something to help me I've taken an anti-histamene(?) just to help me out a little. They have helped.
Probably understandably in light of my experience... I am very wary of sleeping medication.
I think what helped me through the withdrawals was meditation. I would lie still and just focus on my breathing. That was the aim - not sleep though when I felt myself wanting to drift off I'd go with that. I didn't sleep much - but I was getting rest so that was ok.
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