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Mental Health Support

Neoma

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Reply to mopinko (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 11:40 AM

Jul 2013

I'm on Extended Release Seroquel partially because I had so much trouble sleeping before. If I had a testing, wouldn't that interfere?

It's hard for someone to figure out a health problem and doctors shrugging it off though. I think that sort of happened to me. I had a strong belief that the time clock in my head was all backwards. I used to go to sleep at 4AM and wake up at 2PM as a normal sleeping pattern. Every time I get really sleepy, I have adrenaline run through me also. I guess the doctors think that's a normal thing for people with bipolar.

I've noticed that just about everyone I've met with a mental illness has sleeping problems. I'm not sure they even consider that aspect.

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Nightmares in the morning. [View all] Neoma Jul 2013 OP

have you ever had a sleep test? mopinko Jul 2013 #1

No... Neoma Jul 2013 #2

i think a sleep test should be part of any psyche hospitalization, especially mopinko Jul 2013 #6

I concur re sleep test. No Vested Interest Jul 2013 #8

apnea dreams mopinko Jul 2013 #9

you are right about the fear level being high olddots Jul 2013 #3

Funny thing though. Neoma Jul 2013 #5

i have sad dreams rather than nightmares fizzgig Jul 2013 #4

Yet another nightmare. Neoma Jul 2013 #7