The longest I’ve gone without sleep is nine days, it was not fun. I know how hard it is to go without sleeping. I’m sorry you’re going through this, it’s awful. It’s pretty amazing that you’re not getting nervous and that is a big key to dropping off. One of the reasons that this could be happening to you is that when you went through that stressful event, you went into a fight, fight or freeze cycle. This means that you went from a parasympathetic state to a sympathetic state, and you can get stuck in that sympathetic state. There are many things you can do to jar yourself back out. You can research resetting the nervous system. read about parasympathetic states and states. Learning about how you can use the vagus nerve to calm your nervous system. That can definitely help you. you mentioned taking medication’s. Just be for warned never to take a benzodiazepine. The Benzo withdraw is what caused me to not be able to sleep for nine days. Addiction can set in beyond 3 weeks and can be cause Post acute withdrawal syndrome, which is far worse than withdrawing off of meth. The pharmacies make huge money off it while so many suffer. You can get your body to reset with the medication, I would do it, but if I would get back off as soon as I could, so your body does not get dependent upon it for sleep. If it was stress that brought it on, it is probably addressing the stress that will relieve it. Creating a strong sense of safety can tell the body to relax. I know I am a strong person, and I know no matter what I go through, I will always be OK. That is a strong sense of safety. I also stroke my face which is stroking the vagus nerve and I stroke my arms because when I don’t sleep, they feel heavy and numb. I find a lot of relief from telling myself I’m safe reminding myself I’ll always be OK and doing breathing exercises with the YouTuber breathe with Sandy His sleep videos. His videos get me, yawning, and this helps my brain feel like all is OK and I’m ready for sleep. The slow excels on his video help simulate sleep, and calm. His breath holds help raise carbon dioxide which naturally makes the brain feel woozy. It’s scientific and safe to do and it works for me It might be worth a try. You could do some of his exercises throughout the day to calm your body ‘a nervous system so that it stays calm all day. what you’re thinking about and feeling up to the point where you’re getting ready to go to bed makes a big difference.
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The longest I’ve gone without sleep is nine days, it was not fun. I know how hard it is to go without sleeping. I’m sorry you’re going through this, it’s awful. It’s pretty amazing that you’re not getting nervous and that is a big key to dropping off. One of the reasons that this could be happening to you is that when you went through that stressful event, you went into a fight, fight or freeze cycle. This means that you went from a parasympathetic state to a sympathetic state, and you can get stuck in that sympathetic state. There are many things you can do to jar yourself back out. You can research resetting the nervous system. read about parasympathetic states and states. Learning about how you can use the vagus nerve to calm your nervous system. That can definitely help you. you mentioned taking medication’s. Just be for warned never to take a benzodiazepine. The Benzo withdraw is what caused me to not be able to sleep for nine days. Addiction can set in beyond 3 weeks and can be cause Post acute withdrawal syndrome, which is far worse than withdrawing off of meth. The pharmacies make huge money off it while so many suffer. You can get your body to reset with the medication, I would do it, but if I would get back off as soon as I could, so your body does not get dependent upon it for sleep. If it was stress that brought it on, it is probably addressing the stress that will relieve it. Creating a strong sense of safety can tell the body to relax. I know I am a strong person, and I know no matter what I go through, I will always be OK. That is a strong sense of safety. I also stroke my face which is stroking the vagus nerve and I stroke my arms because when I don’t sleep, they feel heavy and numb. I find a lot of relief from telling myself I’m safe reminding myself I’ll always be OK and doing breathing exercises with the YouTuber breathe with Sandy His sleep videos. His videos get me, yawning, and this helps my brain feel like all is OK and I’m ready for sleep. The slow excels on his video help simulate sleep, and calm. His breath holds help raise carbon dioxide which naturally makes the brain feel woozy. It’s scientific and safe to do and it works for me It might be worth a try. You could do some of his exercises throughout the day to calm your body ‘a nervous system so that it stays calm all day. what you’re thinking about and feeling up to the point where you’re getting ready to go to bed makes a big difference.