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i'm taking a sleeping pill during the day as a sedative - long read?
well.... i've been trying to ignore this horrible crap but it's just not working. i'm having intrusive thoughts of my loved ones being raped - and even though i know it's not real i just can't stand by and let these thoughts go through my head.
the thoughts are so bad i cry and scream for it to stop. in 2009, when i started to go through this, i couldn't stop crying and the neighbors would call the police to my apartment..... at the time, because of my yelling, i was taken to the mental hospital even though i didn't want to go. i won't even talk about how bad of an experience i had there - i will just say that it is no place for a girl as they don't separate men from women.
i was put on risperdal and it worked but it made me gain 30 lbs. and raised myprolactin levels.... because of this my doctors - gp and psychiatrist - told me to get off it because it also raised my cholesterol. i was also on celexa but it didn't help and even made the risperdal not work anymore. so eventually it told my psychiatrist that i didn't want to take my medication anymore because it wasn't working - so he just stopped me off my meds "cold turkey".... just like that.
now i think i'm going through withdrawals and am having the same reaction that i had when i first stopped taking my medication and had to go back on it.
the last time i was off my meds and it was this bad i started taking several sleeping pills (over the counter sleeping pills) and some vodka to get drunk. it was controlling the ocd because i was in a drunken stooper. but during the same time i tried to kill myself because it was that bad with the ocd. needless to say the pain in my heart from taking all those pills made me stop myself. i don't recommend it because the pain in your heart is really bad and in the left arm too.
however, now, after telling my doctor that i wanted to discontinue taking all my medication - after stopping me cold turkey on my anti-depressant and anti-psychotic - he did put me on prescription sleeping pills (ambien).
so now when the ocd gets bad and i start to bother the neighbors with my crying (so i won't go back to the mental hospital)..... i take a sleeping pill/ambien for the day - in the afternoon - so that it can act as a sedative..... it makes me feel groggy and sometimes i smile because the ocd is less.....
after i'm done taking the afternoon ambien use another ambien to go to sleep and tak another pill at night time.
so what i wanted to know was..... what will happen to me.....? is this safe (as it's only two a day) and do you think my psychiatrist can prescribe me a valium/sedative so that i won't have to take a sleeping pill during the day and only use one at night?
i need help cause this stuff is just too much for me to handle and i am over my head in this.
oh forgot to add..... i have ocd
2 Answers
- sleepy dragonLv 49 years agoFavorite Answer
I got that you had OCD if the first couple of lines and also see the types of thoughts you are having are really distressing . Main thing you need right now is hope, people can and do get over this problem even when its as bad as it is for you now.
I know that sometimes symptoms are so bad there are no other options but to look to medication but in your case Im not sure this is eliviating your distress.
Have you been offered CBT for most people this is the best way forward?
Someone needs to help you to undermine the meaning that you attach to these awful thoughts and to give you the confidence to stop responding in the way you do now. It's hard work but definitely worth it.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
You will have to deduce a few things. Are you stressed at work or in personal life? If yes, you will have to find ways to eliminate that stress. Secondly, have food half an hour before you intend to sleep. Having a glass of milk without sugar helps. Try listening to some calm instrumental music before you sleep. You will definitely feel better.