The Sleep Disorders include the Inability to Go to Sleep, Frequent Waking during the Night, and/or Waking Much Too Early in The Morning. In more extreme cases you may lie awake night after night getting only a few hours sleep each week, resulting in feeling exhausted, desperate to sleep, and suffering from abnormal day time sleepiness.
Alcohol, Benzodiazepines and Marijuana are often used to self-medicate by people with Sleep Disorders, but brain tolerance for all 3 of these chemicals develops quite quickly so that greater and greater amounts are needed to get a sedative effect. Eventually only extreme amounts may be sufficient to produce sleep in people with severe insomnia. Extreme amounts of alcohol are often not affordable, disrupt nutrition and are toxic to the gut, liver, brain, nerves, heart, pancreas and testicles. Large amounts of diazepam, oxazepam, nitrazepam and other Benzos can cause depression, poor memory, confusion and some people commit crimes and do other dangerous things under the influence of Benzos, without knowing what they are doing. Marijuana is expensive, bad for your memory and mental sharpness, damaging for your lungs and can slowly turn you into a zombie.
More careful, more accurate analysis of Sleep problems and their causes, and using combinations of medications (e.g. a Benzodiazepine + an SNRI sedating antidepressant, or a Tricyclic antidepressant ± a Major Tranquilizer ± a Mood Stabilizer) are now giving much better results for people with severe sleep problems. These medicines may be prescribed separately and Doxepin + Temazepam, or Mirtazepine + Oxazepam, are very good for moderately severe cases. However for the really severe cases putting Mirtazepine + Oxazepam + Quetiapine + Sodium Valproate all together in 1 capsule gives the best result. Getting exercise during the day, avoiding sedatives during the day, and enjoying quietness and rest before going to bed also help as does avoiding stimulants such as caffeine.
These medication combinations also greatly reduce the problem of addictions to Alcohol, Benzodiazepines and/or Marijuana, which are very common among people with severe insomnia. For more detail go towww.BeatingBenzodiazepines.com or go towww.BeatingAlcohol.com.
Sleep Disorders occasionally occur in isolation but are much more often the result of Anxiety, Depression, Bipolar Disorder, ADD or Social Shock Disorders. It is a mistake to just try to put yourself to sleep with sedative chemicals without also discovering and treating any other Nervous Disorders you may have that could be causing the Sleep Disorder. Find out if you have any other Nervous Disorders by doing The Beck Mini Discomforts/Dysfunctions Checklist at www.DrBecksChecklist.comnow!
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