What Is Wrong With Me? How Can I Fix It? Posted: 08-30-05 19:42pm
I want to start by saying that i'm going
to a psychologist and i'm seeing a
psychiatrist in two weeks. Until then no
one knows what I have, and if anyone knows
please give me some suggestions.
I am a 17 year old male. My entire
life I struggled with horrific dreams that
were mainly terrifying because of how real
they were, it might sound crazy, but the
memory and experience of my dream was just
as real as reality. Two years ago I
stopped sleeping because the dreams were
so terrifying that I would rather live
with a few hours of sleep than face them
every night. So I lived and functioned
normally after a couple months of only
getting 3-4 hours of sleep, now I am
completely adjusted to my sleep patterns
of 3am-7am.
Two months ago it got worse, now my
sleeping problem has returned, but now
when I wake from a dream it is difficult
if not impossible for me to tell if what I
experienced was a dream or reality,
because both were as real as each other.
I once woke and thought it was a week
later than what it really was, because my
dream lasted near a week, it took me hours
of apathy and fear to click out of it and
realize what the day was. I decided to
seek medical help. The past 2+ months of
therapy have only helped to throw around
ideas what I have, but to no avail.
About three weeks ago I stopped
dreaming altogether. And my waking life
had become worse. I started seeing
things and hearing things. It isn’t
all the time, I have attacks that I am in
extreme fear of things in my house but
i’m not sure if they are in my house,
voices that do not seem to be there, it
hits and I just close my eyes and beg for
it to go away, I become overcome with
terrible feelings. I decided to refer
to my life in two different stages of
consciousness. I cannot tell if I am
awake and asleep, both as equally real as
the other. The dreams have returned as
well as the feelings that can only be
described as delusions. I am posting
this because today I woke up and could not
recall what day it was, and I slept for 13
hours, which is 3 times as much sleep as I
usually get. My dream lasted a few days
and I woke up and it took me a while to
figure out which day it was, I didn’t go
to my classes because of the confusion and
I am just confused. I am also losing my
memory. Memories from just yesterday
are vague, I can not remember very much
for any period of time. It wasn’t
until an hour ago when I tried to convey
the feeling of this memory lost to my best
friend that I could explain it, it felt
like a dream. Yesterday feels like a
dream, and I don’t know why.
What is this? Schizophrenia?
Parasomnia? Is this a sleeping disorder
or a chemical imbalance?
I know i'm leaving something out, if you
have any questions of symptoms or
anythings please respond.
Ljd
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fidgetmaster
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 1
Posted: 10-02-05 17:42pm
Well that doesn't seem good! I have had
some of those types of symptoms, vivid
dreams, mass sleep depravation, loss of
time, dream-like visions during waking
hours. I also have sleep paralysis,
cataplaxia, and the whole spectrum of
narcoleptic symptoms. I'm not exactly
medically trained, but i'd say it sounds
like you probably have more than one thing
going on, possibly a chemical imbalance or
other disorder that is being aggravated by
a serious sleeping disorder. I wish you
luck with working with some professional
help, and I suggest you write down
everything that's going on during the next
few weeks, from hallucinations to sleeping
times, feelings of weakness, anxiety, mood
swings, times when you can't remember
things. Keep the notebook on hand at all
times, a small one you can put in your
pocket would be good. They thought I had
sleep apnea and depression until I brought
to light some small details I thought
irrevelant at the time, and now I am
getting the appropriate treatments for my
condition.
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