#melatonin doesnt help

[arnold-layne]

cant sleep again

[xysidhequeen]

Current count since I last slept: 41 hours.

I think I've capped out at 46 before, I'm not sure because my worst fit of insomnia had me in no position to check times. But I'll say 46. So if we hit 48 we're setting personal records!

[wishfulsketching]

My insomnia is at the stage where I can barely have any original thoughts, but I could yap (incoherently) about The Invisible Man 2000-2002 and its potential for hours

Yet. I will not. You are spared

Thankfully, I've had a few good nights now. Reading Martha Wells' City of Bones every night to lull me to sleep. So far a solid 8/10

[desperatepleasures]

genuinely cannot believe how well rested I feel after that mri. didn't even fall asleep in there I just laid down inside the Loud Tube for half an hour or whatever and it completely made up for the sleep I lost last night when I woke up unbearably itchy

[nat-20s]

On a new medication which in general works really really well except for the fucking INSOMNIA

[smute]

im seeing a lot of posts about seasonal depression recommending vitamin d supplements and thats great and all but...

1. it's normal to feel a little gloomy in the winter. unless it affects your daily life, you dont have seasonal depression, you have the winter blues. if it does affect your daily life, please see a doctor. seasonal depression/SAD/MDD with seasonal pattern can be treated very effectively with antidepressants or light therapy (see below)

2. while there is a link between depression (particularly postpartum) and vitamin d deficiency, the effectiveness of vitamin d supplements as a treatment has not been conclusively proven.

3. even if you do suffer from seasonal depression, there's a good chance that your vitamin d levels are fine. if you regularly spend a decent amount of time outdoors during the summer months (mar-oct) when there is enough natural ultraviolet light available in latitudes like europe and north america for your body to synthesize its own vitamin d, you probably have enough stored in your fat cells to make it through the darker half of the year. if you live south of the 35th parallel you're making vitamin d year round.

supplements can't hurt (technically, excess levels of vitamin d can be toxic, but even with supplements you're unlikely to poison yourself) but, once again, my point is: even if you have a vitamin d deficiency, it's not necessarily connected to your seasonal depression, and even if there is a connection, it's not necessarily causal.

something super straightforward that is actually proven to work is light therapy, especially when its done early in the morning. it tackles a root cause (lack of daylight) and can help balance your circadian rhythm and your melatonin/serotonin production. it doesn't require a prescription (it's a lamp), you don't have to see a doctor in order to try it (it's a lamp), it's non-invasive (it's a lamp) and accessible (it's a lamp), and it has very few side effects (mostly stuff like eye strain or headaches since, again, it's a lamp). this is my second winter with a light therapy lamp and i have noticed a significant improvement not just in my overall mood but especially in my alertness and energy levels. so yeah. just putting that out there

[psi-hate]

pulling all nighters every day to fix my sleep schedule is so actually awful they should just let me reverse my body clock at will cus at this point I'm always 12 hours inverted for at least half of every year. why does god hate me

[voidpunker]

melatonin save me

[studiousbotanist]

ohhhhhuhhh I felt better after tje cold showwr/bath and was sleeping but my bro lost track of time I needed to take him to work and I NEED to fix my AC this is a priority now cus I felt better and cooled off and now I'm SO SO sick again

[orcelito]

how to show your new database management project group that you are a Totally normal and sane and constructive student:

listen to this song on repeat for Hours on a monday night

im just Winning at being #Normal

[renytherat]

ive been awake for 31 hours. im getting up to get dressed for my last normal day in my first 2 classes before the final exam days. i don't work tonight but i want to go see my friends who will be rock climbing most likely at 1900. if i dont take a nap after class i will be up for 41 hours. we rock climb til 2200 when it closes. ill either go out with them to eat which means ill be out til past 0200 or ill go home and sleep before my next class at 1300 the next day, gods willing. if the first i will have been up for a full 49-50 hours. if i go home and sleep: 46.

[naladrawssss]

thinking about that one time that my brother got meletonine gummies bc he had bad insomnia but he was liek damn they didnt help at all and me being the curious little cat i am was like hey lemme try and so he gave me 2 (which was the regular dose) and i went to go like yk in my bed to see if they helped me sleep

i was sitting there in my bed for like 5ish minutes and i was like hm i dont feel anything and then 10 minutes and i was liek this shit aint working

and then i conk the FUCK OUT

like it was DEEEP ASS SLEEP

AND THE ONLY REASON WHY I WOKE UP JUST IN TIME FOR DINNER WAS BC MY SISTER WOKE ME UP

she said she was like shaking me awake for like a whole ass minute like my ass would NOT wake up

[annalisearabella]

Awake at 5am

I do not want to be awake at 5am

[wolfywolfy]

Me: wow I've felt a little weird the last couple of nights falling asleep, like my heart has been racing right as I start going unconscious. Maybe for the next couple of nights I'll stop taking melatonin and it will help that from happening!

Me, after making the mistake of not taking melatonin: *wide awake as the sun rises and reminiscing (against my will) of all my failures and stress and anxiety and worries and life and woes and*

[artemisaed]

Last night I wrote a full chapter of a sunstone fanfic and looking back it started out bad then got good then got bad again. My hypothesis is that I was was so exhausted that I couldn't make it consistently good. Conclusion: I need to sleep more

[cathode-ray-rube]

i also just eat a lot of benadryl or zzquil because it makes my dreams annoyingly vivid and anxiety inducing and then I try to wrestle those feelings like a feral boar and press it to paper. alcohol also tends to sufficiently agitate me similar to shaking a lava lamp but it also makes me lose my grip. Truly man is a marvelous piss pot