Cyclothymia Support Group

Anyone suffer bad dreams due to their meds? If so, is there anything that can be done to dampen them down or better still, prevent them?

I'm trying not to sleep for too long as I go into second phase, then third phase of dreams, which inevitably leaves me extra slumped, from the moment I awake until the afternoon. I'm aiming to have a stricter sleep routine i.e. same time to bed, same time to wake up.

Helpful input would be most welcome & much appreciated.

From 'oh wise but weary one'

Post edited by: wisewuman, at: 04/15/2012 06:00 AM

On the topic of not sleeping well. Did some research on insomnia and I'm wondering how close this is to causing Cyclothymia.

sleep 2 hours awake for 2, sleep one hour awake for one, then having weird dreams, not always nightmares, but confusing and weird.

Luckily can’t remember dreams most of the time, unless it was a nightmare or totally confusing. Not meds though, has been like this all my life or since I can remember. Also the less I sleep the less I want to sleep.

Sleep patterns really affect me too, like holidays with a change in times with travelling or different times in going to bed and waking up. At present I am having real problems getting my 2 year old to stopp waking up in the night. On average she wakes up at least three times. The worst night was when she woke up 6 times.

Not having enough sleep makes me hyper eventually, but I can never can judge how long it will take for me mood to swing.

For some reason I have no sleep disturbances. I'm a heavy sleeper and I get my 6 hours a day. I do, however, have the weird dreams. They are so vivid and elaborate it's ridiculous. Someone usually ends up being murdered or harmed in some way. Some days I wake up and think: "WHAT?"

I'm not sure if it's my meds though. The bad dreams come and go, and are interjected with the bizarre ones. I think my mind is just crazy

I used to have crazy, vivid dreams from the time I was very young. Sometimes during the day when I remember something I'm not even sure if it was a dream or not.