I've been diagnosed with ADD and
depression and am being treated for those
as well as anxiety. I have been wondering
for the past few years though if these
things are secondary to a sleep disorder.
I've been an insomniac all my life.
- Anxiety about going to bed.
- Anxiety about falling asleep. If I feel
myself starting to drift off I feel
uncomfortable and wake myself up.
- Insomnia. Melatonin does not help.
Ambien and benzos generally do, but I
still wake up a lot.
- Waking up a lot during the night,
generally from a dream. I can generally
fall back to sleep right away.
- When waking up without an alarm clock, I
generally wake up from a vivid dream
- Many dreams involve some sort of
homicide, as if my dreams have a
"movie/television crime drama" theme to
them. This is sometimes more common than
others.
- Difficulty waking up to an alarm clock,
even if I got enough sleep. I need to set
my alarm an hour to hour and a half early,
take adderall, reset my alarm, then go
back to bed.
- Daytime drowsiness/sleepiness.
- Low energy. I've said in the past that
if I could change one thing about myself,
I'd want more energy. I don't remember
having low energy as a little kid but I
know I have at least since I was a young
teenager.
- Low motivation.
- Lack of alertness. Sometimes totally out
of it.
- Strange sensation once in a while during
the day, like I can't feel my limbs as
well and feel out of it. This upsets me. I
don't know if anxiety is the cause or the
result.
- Sometimes stop talking mid sentence. I
don't realize that I did until the person
I'm talking to prompts me to finish what I
was saying. Sometimes I don't remember.
- I rarely take naps. Sometimes I try but
can't fall all the way asleep. Naps make
me anxious (possibly related to stuff that
happened when I was a kid
)
