r/insomnia • u/ParsnipCharming5262 • 1d ago

recently developed insomnia; slept for one hour last night. please help.

funny thing is that i only feel a little tired. im more exhausted emotionally than physically, but i know my body craves sleep. for the past twelve days ive been under a huge amount of stress and consequentially have not been sleeping well. it started at 4-5 hours per night, to 30 minute naps, and now im lucky if i fall asleep at all. i cannot take a nap to save my life right now. i feel miserable. my brain feels so wired and awake but my eyes are so hot and heavy.

im also going through a serious bout of depression and im in a constant state of worry. my home environment does not help. i just need to vent and ask for reassurance that someone else has gone through this. can you survive off one hour of sleep? i know it's better than none but i feel hopeless.

barely even two weeks is less amount of time than most people suffer from insomnia but my stress amplifies the feeling of helplessness and depression. i also have severe health ocd and im just stuck in my own head all the time.

sorry to vent but i feel horrid right now. ive been laying down with my eyes closed for 4 hours now and have not been able to get back to sleep. my mind is racing. i don't want this to kill me.

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u/IcelandGalaxy 1d ago

I feel you dude!! Try to see a doctor ASAP though. Im going through the same. Literally micro-sleeping and its obviously not enough. I'm going to try to get a prescription for Trazodone

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u/Public-Philosophy580 1d ago

Yes see your doctor u may need a sleep aid. Even short term.

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u/Simple_Scholar6951 1d ago

I slept for about 1,5 hours per day the last 8 weeks. So you can survive that long. Also, I read that some people had this problem for mounth. Sometimes I could't sleep for 3 days in a row. So it is possible to survive it. But I feel like shit of course. I don't feel tired or drouwsy though, which I think is so weird. I also have a lot of stress but I somehow developed this insomnia after an infection, so I sometimes think it altered my brain/nerves/sleep system in a way I can't sleep anymore. On Monday I took Trazodon and it let me sleep 5-6 hours though, so maybe my system is not totally broken. But after that I could only sleep for about 1-2 hours again. But with the Tradozon my mood is a bit better at least.

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u/IcelandGalaxy 16h ago

did trazodone work for you again?