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Night terrors
Night terrors is a graphic name for an experience known as Nocturnal panic attack. It is particularly painful and difficult because you are in bed and alone and with no distraction. It starts as a rising tide of anxiety that semi awakens the sleeper and the thoughts descend into a cycle of fear and dread.…
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Coping
Don’t let yourself be dragged down by your thoughts. Don’t let yourself get on the treadmill of blame and shame. Don’t let yourself be valued as others see you and don’t take on board all their neurosis. As sufferers we suppose that we are different and that other people are “normal.” This is an unhelpful…
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Value
The person who suffers from mind illness is tremendously valuable, especially if they have insight into their thought processes. We still live in days of suspicion and the side-lining of people who suffer depression. Depression is seen as weakness and the people who suffer from it are regarded as less than so-called “normal” people. This…
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Endless circles
The mind that is overloaded and tired tries to right itself though thinking. The mind goes around in endless circles to try to decipher the feelings involved in the depression or mania. It is a way to try to square up the thoughts and feelings that are leading the sufferer down into the depression or…
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Sleeplessness
There is a lot of guilt built in around the pronouncements about sleep. We are told that everyone should have eight hours uninterrupted sleep every night. We identify deep sleep, with REM sleep (rapid eye movement sleep) somnambulistic sleep and dozing. We are suppose to sleep eight hours or we are not going to live…
