posted on Aug, 25 2009 @ 02:01 PM
reply to post by Sestias
He was highly addicted to benzos, i'm sure. The doses he got of ativan alone that night would have put a nervous elephant to sleep. He apparently
slept the 2 nights before too. To go as far as to
demand that medication, for
one sleepless night is just beyond me, as an insomniac
myself.
Sometimes your body just doesn't want to sleep, and when you try and force it, or believe you
have to get a certain amount of sleep to
function, only makes it worse. I try and avoid meds at all costs, and have found the most effective thing by far, is to just go with it. If i'm
tossing and turning, i get up and go read, or watch TV until i feel tired, then i go lay down again...usually i fall back asleep. On occasions when i
don't i just stay up, and by the next night i'm tired. Sleep when your body wants to sleep, fighting it makes it so much worse, and you'll end up
feeling like you
need meds to sleep. You SO don't, just don't listen to all the "experts" who give us the false idea that you must have a
certain amount of sleep, we're all different.