Hoping sleep comes tonight.

Hi Eve1

Sleep deprivation is awful, I haven’t had a good night sleep in a long time, this isn’t due to antidepressants its because of being alert with what my abuser would do if I slept.

What I do is cat nap,but I stay in bed when I wake up so I’m resting. The last two months I have cut out fizz and now junk food to see if thats I help. Also exercising and fresh air, but I dont think I will sleep properly till I have my own front door.

Keep with itI’m sure it will get better.

FS xx

Hi Eve,

Yes, I had this at the start of my tablets.

Now I try to go to bed a bit later, so I don’t wake up at 4am. If I do, I don’t lie there thinking, I go and make myself a milky drink and this works- I soon drop off x

It should improve with time. I found I was waking lots often really wide awake and also having such vivid dreams that I wasn’t sure what was real and what wasn’t. I even dreamed my daughters best friend has been seriously injured in a car crash and it was so vivid couldn’t understand why she wasn’t upset about it… then it dawned on me. Scary.
No caffeine after 6pm helped me too xx