My broadband sucks at the minute, they cut me off so I'm on work. Hope you are all doing ok. Me I've been having triggering dreams which are not helping, though feeling much better today. KIinda looking forward to the weekend, though I'm always so busy I feel like I don't get a braeak. My CBT wants to get me into an art course, which of course I would love, but not sureI could afford it, though she is looking into it for me and I am supposed to do some research and see if they will except weekly payments, though not feeling overly confident at the moment about much, and so tired cause even though I'm sleeping I feel like I'm not, and I really hate that. Plus I'm not sure you can tell but so much going through my head right now I feel like I can't stop to do anything, hopefully no one I know in person notices though, cause it;s my own fault, I forgot to take my meds a couple of days and went out for a birthday drinnk i think it's messed up my thinking a bit but *shrugs* anyway.
I'm hoping to get my internet back next week when I payt them lol, but for sojme odd reason they sent me a letter saying 'sorry to hear you don''t want our service any longer...blah blah' but I didn't say anythign like that to them, though I was messing about online ttrying to pay them and I don't think it went through properly so I'm kinda worried I might of done something wrong, i'll get it sorted though and gonna stop talkin g now
sorry to hear about your dreams starnight, i hate that, because you have no control over them. where you have some degree of control over your thoughts! i hope you do get to do an art course, if you would enjoy it it would be good!
i know that feeling of having to much going on in your head, and not being able to stop. sorry thats its from a missing meds.
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Has anyone who has MDD noticed that when they are sleep-deprived, their mood improves? About 40-60% of sufferers of unipolar depression see a remarkable improvement in their mood after just one night without sleep. Unfortunately, the effect wears off when the person goes back to sleeping normally. But it's still really interesting.
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Has anyone who has MDD noticed that when they are sleep-deprived, their mood improves? About 40-60% of sufferers of unipolar depression see a remarkable improvement in their mood after just one night without sleep. Unfortunately, the effect wears off when the person goes back to sleeping normally. But it's still really interesting.
Wow! that's really interesting, I wonder why that is. I haven't noticed that effect, but then I like sleeping so I don't willingly go without.
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^^ oh i definately agree...but i was wondering if once im already manic, if the continuing lack of sleep accounts for the increasing intensity of the mania
though iv always thought that the lack of sleep probably is what ends up making me crash
it is really interesting, in my bipolar meeting, they said sleep is one of the best regulators for mood, and when you start going up, making sure your getting sleep is really good for keeping you more stable!
tho trying to sleep when manic, its almost impossible!
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Has anyone who has MDD noticed that when they are sleep-deprived, their mood improves? About 40-60% of sufferers of unipolar depression see a remarkable improvement in their mood after just one night without sleep. Unfortunately, the effect wears off when the person goes back to sleeping normally. But it's still really interesting.
Yes - this has worked for me on occasion, often through a real crisis- although as said it's short lived. Just feeling ok (though tired) even for a few hours can be a huge relief.
Of course in manic phases the sleep deprivation accelerates the mania.
There is a technique called "phase advance sleep deprivation" which is meant to maintain the lift for longer. I haven't been able to use it because you have to sleep/wake at such odd times and I haven't got the self-discipline - but you could google it if you're interested.
I know if I'm manic and not sleeping well I tend to get worse, but then I prgress to mixed episodes which aren't good at all cause I end up sleepng too much one day not enough another and I ghet completely out of time with everything around me and extremely agitated.
If your hypomanic hun seek help, tell your dr, its not something you can control by wanting to stay there, it can develop further particually if you have history and it can sometimes do it incrediblly quickly (i know from my experiance) and then become dangerous.
Ur dr could help with increase, change or maybe adding another med in e.tc.
i hate this. im ridiculousy depressed and now im off to work from 3pm til midnight...and iv been bullied into taking a shift tommorrow at 9am til 6pm since i didnt work this week (called in sick)
Sorry to hear you're not great at the minute.
I told my psych I'm not sleeping but I didn't tell him about my moods cause everytime I go to I'm worried he is going to blame me or say I can control it, though I know he won't really...so he had said he was hoping we could take it from monthly appts to 3 monthly but now he wants to see me again next month. Though that's not a bad thinng and I see my CPN next week and I find it easier to talk to her so she will talk to the psych anyway if she feels she needs to.
*hugs* to everyone who needs them.
i'm sorry to hear your so depressed silent dancer. :(
chaotic resolve, you seen your doctor about being hypomanic? i know its really nice being there, but as said, it can escalate really quickly.
i'm currently really not very well! full of the worst cold ever. i hate being sick. and cant afford to take any time off work, wich is horrible!
xxx
iv been starting to notice odd periods of 'lucidity'. in the sense that im starting to experience short periods of time where it feels like the fog is lifting from my brain...im able to think clearly...and concentrate...and not focus on the depression
is this what other people experienced as their medication started to take affect?
When my medication took effect I described to my psych as the first time as 'feeling myself' since I was 14, I admit to actually saying to him that I felt almost normal for a change even though I hated phrasing it like that
