hypomanic hippity hoppity wheee!

[CraftyTurtle]

I've had issues with sleep for about a year. Right now it's monday evening and I havent slept since 1972.

well thats what it feels like. Actually since Saturday morning.

the sleep specialist said if i dont sleep at night, DO NOT catch up in the daytime.

But i hafta say forcing myself to do stuff during the day is making me go all funky in the head. I've been playing this letters game on my phone, and when I close my eyes all I see is the letters swimming around.

Colors are SO bright too. And the wierdest rhings become fascinating, or hilariouss

I'm tryin to type but i forget where my favourite letters are.

I'm just about to go out for dinner at the pub with some of my church friends (and we're all going camping over easter.) so there's lots to be hippity happy about

my mind is racing but my body is tired.

 

[quietpraiyze]

Oh CraftyTurtle I know that place. Are you taking some kind of sleep aid? I take melatonin when things are "normal" and when they're not I have something I take that knocks me out. It may take me a couple days to regulate and feel back in my skin but it beats a hospitalization.

 

[Loven God]

CraftyTurtle, I have been there but when I am there I don't feel tired and I get all kinds of things done with a clear head , but then comes the bad part "crash" .

 

[RuthD]

When does the sleep specialist expect you to sleep? I have a problem with not being able to sleep too with bipolar. If I didn't sleep during the day at times I'd be batty.

 

[quietpraiyze]

You already know this but we're all praying for you

 

[CraftyTurtle]

Aww thanks guys. I gave in and slept all day today. I feel better, but wonder if I will sleep tonight. Am going camping over Easter with a couple of my church friends, and I hafta drive 2 hours on unfamiliar roads. Luckily there is another driver.

I WISH for sleeping meds, but my clinic does not dispense them (or any other "addictives")

I am actually glad about camping - it's Autumn here, and the nights are cool to cold. I take many warm blankets, and once settled I don't move. (Gotta stay in the warm spot) so I usually sleep really really well.

 

[Loven God]

CraftyTurtle . I have bipolar 1 and do not sleep well most of the time eatheir . I have every broken sleep or only sleep a couple of hours at time . I do have sleep meds but they do not work . I have tried many kind with no luck . So sleep meds is not always an answer . I was they were .