The Sleep Disorders
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 to www.BeatingBenzodiazepines.com
or go to www.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.DrBecksChecklists.com
See also Chapter 11 Section iii. of Dr Neil Beck's book, "Beating Heroin"
The Big 7 Commonest Disorders
The Anxiety Disorders
Major (Unipolar) Depression
Bipolar (Manic Depressive) Disorder
The Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD, ADHD and Others)
The Post Trauma Brain Shock Disorders (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Acute Distress Disorder etc)
The Paranoia/Hallucination/Delusion Disorders
