fucking insomnia..

[Sasha]

1 hour to go before my alarm goes. Can't afford to not go to school again. So ill bike with no sleep to the other side of town while they stopped salting the roads because its to cold (-18 now) and good chance that if I get there without dying class will be cancelled because the teacher can't make it.
This sucks balls...

[Prometeo liberado]

I chase my ambien with bourbon and ambien. It may not help but it makes the girl in bed next to me much more tolerable.:thumbup1:

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Biking in -18... crap, good luck with that. I went to Uni without sleep yesterday. I was pretty cold but I'm alright because I drive, although I would advise not driving while sleep deprived and wired on coffee. I found myself more talkative, it was like being slightly drunk, might have to do the same for my talks over the next 2 weeks. No, that's a bad idea...

[Os Cangaceiros]

Wait, they stopped salting the road because it's too cold? Shouldn't they be more vigilant about maintaining the roads when it gets colder? :confused:

[Ele'ill]

I chase my ambien with bourbon and ambien. It may not help but it makes the girl in bed next to me much more tolerable.:thumbup1:

I need ambien.

[Prometeo liberado]

I need ambien.

Or more bourbon.

[bcbm]

Wait, they stopped salting the road because it's too cold? Shouldn't they be more vigilant about maintaining the roads when it gets colder? :confused:

salt doesn't work past a certain temperature

[Sasha]

Wait, they stopped salting the road because it's too cold? Shouldn't they be more vigilant about maintaining the roads when it gets colder? :confused:

Below -7 there is no point, the brine just freezes making it even more dangerous than without salt at all.

And yeah guess it will be back to the doctor for a refill of my benzodines again because this shit is really starting to jeopardize my education.
Shit thing is that if I now go to school it will be only to get my name checked on the attendance list anyway, I'm studying to become a carpenter and I'm sure as hell not touching any machinery that can easily take my fingers off while sleep deprived.

[Le Rouge]

smoke weed...It has been used to treat insomnia before. And it works well. Just smoke 2h-3h before you go to sleep. A fun way to sleep.

[Sasha]

smoke weed...It has been used to treat insomnia before. And it works well. Just smoke 2h-3h before you go to sleep. A fun way to sleep.

without weed i wouldnt sleep period and smoking more doesnt help much so thats no sollution..

[Ele'ill]

do you get decent exercise aside from biking to school (I assume you mean bicycle)

[Sasha]

yeah, i know what it is, its a symptom of my co-morbid anxiety disorder that i got thanx to my unrecognised ADD, if i clear my tests next week ill hopefully start a ritalin trial that hopefully will also go some way into resolving this.

ah well, at least the trains are running again so i dont have to bike through the cold...

speak you all later

[Искра]

why do you go to school? arn't you like in 20's?

anyhow I can't sleep and eat because I think of Mari3L.

here's it's cold. between 5-10 cm of snow. I have a russian exam in about hour and I'm still in bed because it's the warmest place (heating is off).

rock'n'roll.

[Искра]

Wait, they stopped salting the road because it's too cold? Shouldn't they be more vigilant about maintaining the roads when it gets colder? :confused:
I thate when they salt the roads, because that salt shit is destroying my dr.martens.

it's better when they throw gravel than salt though. because gravel causes friction on lower temperatures than salt. inteligent people of austria use gravel, while idiots from croatia just salt roads...

[Sasha]

why do you go to school? arn't you like in 20's?

anyhow I can't sleep and eat because I think of Mari3L.

here's it's cold. between 5-10 cm of snow. I have a russian exam in about hour and I'm still in bed because it's the warmest place (heating is off).

rock'n'roll.

Almost 30 actually, I'm studying to become a carpenter. It's no university and no "hogeschool" so I don't know how else to call it but school.
It's a dogtime thingy of 2 years.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I have insomnia, too. Usually a dose of Benadryl helps. Or some xanax. Take 0.5mg to 1mg right when you lie down, then in about 15-20 minutes you should be asleep.

I also find blacking out the windows helps (like with a thick blanket, to keep the streetlights / city lights out) along with covering any lights in the room. Even tiny LEDs on electronics. Completely dark.

[Sasha]

I have insomnia, too. Usually a dose of Benadryl helps. Or some xanax. Take 0.5mg to 1mg right when you lie down, then in about 15-20 minutes you should be asleep.

I also find blacking out the windows helps (like with a thick blanket, to keep the streetlights / city lights out) along with covering any lights in the room. Even tiny LEDs on electronics. Completely dark.

I live in the Netherlands, weed maybe kind of legal but everything you mention is (very hard to get) prescription only...

[Sasha]

Fucking hell, 100 meters from the trainstation I needed to be the train stopped and reversed bback to where I. came from because a train before us broke down... this is going to be one fucked up day...

[Искра]

Almost 30 actually, I'm studying to become a carpenter. It's no university and no "hogeschool" so I don't know how else to call it but school.
It's a dogtime thingy of 2 years.
We call it "night school", because it's usually a school for people who didn't finish highschool so they work and they can only go to classes in the evening.


I have insomnia, too. Usually a dose of Benadryl helps. Or some xanax. Take 0.5mg to 1mg right when you lie down, then in about 15-20 minutes you should be asleep.
Stupid advice. Insomnia is usually caused by stress and taking drugs won't help you solve the problem. Try to find cause of stress and solve it. If you can't solve the cause of stress then learn to live with insomnia.

I fucking hate weak people who take drugs for every shit:

http://images1.buymusichere.net/images/w/203/211203.jpg

[Sasha]

My insomnia actually involves staying completely awake for days until my sleeping pattern get restarted by a short bout with benzodines.
One time I tried "to learn how to live with it" and I ended up not sleeping for a week to the point of intense hallucinations.
Now I completely agree that too much people take medicine they dont need (esp in the US although my Serbian friends also know their way in the medicine cabinet) but some people have actual severe medical conditions and calling them weak is just dickish..

[Искра]

Well sick people are sick and they should be treated as such. There's difference between sick people and all this "oh, no I have a headache...I'll drink whole cabinet" culture. I have insomnia also. I don't sleep for week... and I manage to get myself in shape. Now I sleep 3-5 hours a day and I'm ok. Few days ago I've slept 12 hours and I was like... woah, where did time go

[heyjoe]

actually benedryl is good advice if you can get it over the counter. it doesnt leave you with that hung over feeling the next morning. melatonin is something else that is over the counter here and works well for insomnia.

[An archist]

I saw something about people with insomnia a few days ago, apparently in ghent there's a university 'sleep hospital' where they look at causes (physical of other) of your insomnia and they can improve your sleeping patterns. I'm guessing something like that must exist in the netherlands too.

http://www.een.be/programmas/ook-getest-op-mensen/slaap-zacht

[PC LOAD LETTER]

We call it "night school", because it's usually a school for people who didn't finish highschool so they work and they can only go to classes in the evening.

Stupid advice. Insomnia is usually caused by stress and taking drugs won't help you solve the problem. Try to find cause of stress and solve it. If you can't solve the cause of stress then learn to live with insomnia.

I fucking hate weak people who take drugs for every shit:

http://images1.buymusichere.net/images/w/203/211203.jpg
Lack of sleep exacerbates stress. Instead of taking some vague quasi-primitivist approach to medicine and insinuating that I'm "weak" while throwing up some NOFX album art like a little fanboy, why don't you come up with a decent critique explaining why someone shouldn't occasionally take, say, a Benadryl to help them sleep if they're having trouble that night? I have a hard time believing you won't do this on some vague moralist principle.

Granted, I do agree that modern society is "over medicated" to an extent. It shouldn't be used to advocate against the occasional use of medicine, but to advocate against unnecessary medicine and unnecessary diagnoses designed to make money for drug companies or cover problems that should be addressed in another way. For example, I disagree with the wildly spreading diagnoses of ADD/ADHD in the US - the problem in much of these cases is the parents not wanting to raise and interact with their kids (they want to sit them in front of the TV and ignore them) and then complaining when they go nuts and destroy the house. That's not to say there aren't real cases of ADD/ADHD where medicine is required, just that not all of the cases are legitimate.

What I suggested was, if this insomnia is a big enough problem, take something that will make him/her go to sleep.

Anyways, if you can't get ahold of some benadryl, I also suggest running a few miles about an hour before you want to get to sleep. Then take a really hot shower and jump in bed. That works for me every time.