skipped my meds yesterday night by accident and just got the best sleep I've had in a month. yeah fuck these things

and they lied to me and told me they were sleeping meds the first time even tho that was unnecessary to be doing and they're not prescribed for sleep

I hate the medical field. that's so fucking gross

The only things I trust to improve my sleep are exercise and magnesium.

Either that, or the aforementioned meds have some conflict w/ any other meds you might be taking.

Mentioning this result to the doc, that you had a better sleep when you forgot to take those meds is probably a good idea. At the very least they will know better your situation && the results of those meds on your body...

...in case the doc was wrong before or something.

Is this about haldol? It makes me slow, stupid, but I do not sleep better from it. Not that I am aware of.

My favorite for sleeping is not a sleeping med but a calming one. It's lorazepam. It has relatively minor side effects. Ironically they want to forbid it because clients are getting addicted. I have no idea how you could get addicted to such thing. But also, hypocrites, what about all those people you give a kinda amphetamine daily? The ADHD people? Like wtf.

@whimsical the haldol-like med yeah

well they lied saying it was sleeping meds

damn this doctor knowing how to intellectually connect to me

they halved my dose to help with the "suffering" but convinced me to stay on these like a year. fiiine

now I'm taking them in the morning also which should help

least now I know how long I'm gonna be on them. that was driving me a bit crazy not knowing

gonna just suffer I guess. if anything I guess loud music and dancing. I didn't wanna stress myself and my body out and cause inflammation though...

I'm such a mess with this illness it's ridiculous

@jestdotty I agree with @whimsical sleep meds work by disabling parts of your brain so you're not actually sleeping but disconnected instead, my mom is a physio and will give you the same advice about taking something to relax instead

I once skipped my meds because I didn’t have enough money to afford them. That night, I couldn’t sleep. I was shaking. New ideas were pouring in. Then, as tiredness was leaving my body, I realized I could see in 8k. Every smell was four-dimensional, my physical strength was increasing by the minute, and was crying because I was experiencing every emotion there is to experience at that very moment.

I’m fortunate and experienced enough to know that that high is how mania begins. Without medication, that superhuman state will carry on for three to four weeks in my case, followed by a year of deep depression that responds to neither conventional nor alternative medicine.

The kind of meds I take are designed to slow me down. Without them, it’s over for y’all bitches. Y’all be replaced. Then, after some time, it’s over for me too lol

Just to clarify, advice is for people who want to sleep, not for other issues 😅

@kiki wait what

that just sounds fun / normal to me

and I never get depression lol

but since I got sick I'm numb everywhere and my senses and brain don't work

@jestdotty that’s fun for sure, but in my case it has a brutally high price