#Sleepy Bitch Disease

[rosesandthorns44]

I can't help but feel like it is somehow my fault any time I have a pain flare up.

I drive myself bonkers trying to figure out the cause:

Not exercising enough?

Inadequate nutrition?

IDK. Sitting wrong???

I've had chronic pain since the age of 7. That's over 20 years now. I have a progressive illness. Logically, I know none of this is my fault. My brain still tells me it is.

Possibly has something to do with my mom peppering me with questions if I mention feeling worse than usual.

"Have you been eating enough protein?"

"Are you doing your PT exercises?"

"Going for walks?"

"How much sugar are you eating? You know that's bad for inflammation."

For some reason, she's also always telling me to eat blueberries???

I know she means well. I know it must be hard to see her kid in pain. She's not blaming me for being sick. She probably just wishes there was some quick fix to make it better.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

If you're one of those girlies* who's like "I'm just so sleepy all the time lemme go take my 3rd nap of the day!! I'm just a sleepy baby!!"

Not to be your mom, but please please please go get your iron levels checked.

*gender neutral

[whump-on-a-string]

My Tav gets the most sleep of all of the party members because every single time we've been in combat and an enemy casts Sleep or something he's the first if not the only one to take a dirt nap.

The silly spin animation characters do before they fall over asleep is hilarious and makes me laugh every time. It's just so silly.

[starlight-nocte]

when i think of sleeping,

i think of dying.

i think of oblivion,

of drowning in the Nile

after baking brown in the 

desert sun…

when i think of sleeping,

i am afraid

because sleep has been 

such a part of me,

has taken too much–

more than its due.

i have lost centuries to this thing,

this disease of

shut-eyed nothingness. 

in truth,

i don’t think it’s possible to be 

safe from sleep.

because this kind of sleep

sticks to your bones,

mouths at the ridges of your throat.

this kind of sleep

eats you alive.

 - Safe From Sleep, after Iman Mersal

[eleftherian]

*stops the movie in the middle to take a nap*

*stops dinner in the middle to take a nap*

*stops showering in the middle to take a nap*

*stops the chapter in the middle to take a nap*

*stops talking in the middle to tak

[hexcrystals]

napping dot com slash careers

[shit-enmu-says]

Well, well, well, if it isn’t sleepy bitch disease claiming another victim!

[felixer-of-life]

I have bad news about the sleepiness, past and future me. It's forever now.

[flowergirlmiwa]

If god didn't want me to be mspleepy, then he shouldn't invented bed thmmpphzzzzzzz

[rosesandthorns44]

Idiopathic Hypersomnia Life Hacks I Am Currently Field Testing:

Putting my shoes on and not taking them off so I can't get back in bed or lie down on the couch. (Roommate's genius suggestion I wish I had thought of. I don't like wearing my street shoes in the home, so perhaps I need separate indoor anti-sleepytime shoes. I'm not a crocs kind of gal, but perhaps just for at home)

Washing my bedding on my days off from work so my blankets cannot beckon me with their siren song (also, I get horrible night sweats. I wake up DRENCHED, so my bedding needs the extra washing anyway. Anyone else with IH or Narcolepsy have this???)

Not sitting down to watch TV or play video games unless I have finished my to-do list first.

Post-it notes everywhere. For everything. I wouldn't even remember to brush my own teeth if I hadn't put a post-it note on my bathroom mirror

Other Hypersomniacs of any breed, please feel free to add your tips and tricks.

[snoopylovessoup]

[eilooxara]

Maybe if I sleep all the time I will stop being tired someday

[elizabethplaid]

Going back for a 2nd nap today? Yeah, but so is my dad. I swear, the sleepy bitch disease is so rampant today.

[eleftherian]

babe I’ve napped in places you can’t even imagine

[anthony-crowleys-left-nut]

fighting my demons (sleepy and horny)

[shit-enmu-says]

Woe! Sleepy bitch disease be upon ye!