Severe Anxiety and Homework

beargarden
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:12:31 +0000

I second the warning about trazadone. It helped me short term but has serious long term side effects they’re only recently discovering…as I found out after taking at a steadily increasing dosage for two years.
For the most part I don’t like to advocate medication though, and as I haven’t had much luck with it myself, for sleep I can only say… try hard to maintain good sleep habits. I have both a physical fatigue disorder and the obvious anxiety and combined I’ve really let them take over. By good sleep habits I mean, try and stay out of your bed for anything other than sleeping(most important), try and exercise but not after 3pm, try not to drink any caffeine after this time either, try and limit the amount of light you see if you tend to wake up, and don’t view any of these things as cures, they might be able to make sleep easier but they will help it from becoming much much more difficult.
If thats not working for you theres always the herbal supplement melatonin, which is produced naturally in the body and the same reason you don’t want to see the sun while trying to sleep, and tylonol simply sleep, which unlike tylonol pm doesn’t have painkillers that damage your liver. I had trouble taking melatonin alone, and it varies by brand, but some people swear by it. Just be aware that you will build a tolerance to simply sleep very very quickly, so try and avoid becoming too dependent so that you can give your body “holidays” so that you are able to keep your dose low. By dependent I also mean psychologically. Its very very reassuring to be able to take something to prevent trouble sleeping, and at the same time, hard to take something that lasts 6-8 hours if you’ve already been trying to sleep for hours.Taking something long term may seem wonderful but there’s actually only one medication approved to take longer than 3-6 months, and from my own experience it’s mostly a placebo aimed at the psychological need for a sleep aid .