These pages seem to have kept going, so I will too...
Spiritual.
I only quote the US because that's the best figures I can find. Don't be biased. My own country of Australia is very similar. My birth country of UK doesn't seem much different either from what I can gather, and the rest of the world is an easy step for companies who are making money and need to expand their market.
If only the dairy farmers could run a campaign...
Of course then we would get psychologically addicted to milk, which is in fact fine. The long-term solution to sleep problems is to create a psychological addiction, or in other words a habit/routine, that reliably gets us to sleep. Just find ones that leave off paying people for something your body for itself.
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Originally Posted by chaostheory  As someone who has had chronic insomnia since the age of 5, i cannot support you in this. Tests have shown that my body does not produce enough of the chemical to put me to sleep naturally. i was taking subscribed pills from my doctor, but i build up a tolerance to them so quickly ( within a few weeks ) that they no longer work, even when the dosage is upped. The only one this didn't happen with was Restoril, but i chose to stop taking it when i found out it's a class X drug that causes horrific birth defects ( and we're ttc ). i switched to taking 2 benadryl each night instead, and although it usually works, sometimes it doesn't.
Do you know what it's like to not be able to sleep? By the third morning i'm a complete emotional train wreck, and near tears with exhaustion. i agree that addictions to narcotics is not a good thing, but there ARE other alternatives, like benadryl, or tylenol pm. And, there's a difference between someone who is taking them to sleep because of depression, or just to escape waking life, and someone who has to take them out of medical necessity. Natural herbs...they don't work in my case. i've tried them. And i am allergic to most narcotics. |
I'm sorry once again about the title. "Against" is the wrong word.
Chaostheory, please go to the page
Self Help If You Are Taking Sleeping Pills... Here Is The Campaign! Absorb the 3 videos, then come back here and give it to me with both barrels blazing on this forum.
My claim is that I am giving YOU specifically, some of THE best advice you have every heard in your lifetime of insomnia.
I don't know what you mean by this "Tests have shown that my body does not produce enough of the chemical to put me to sleep naturally." but I do claim I have the best possible solution to the rest of what you describe.
Happy for you to call my bluff if I'm wrong. Just make sure you also watch the third video.
williamhessian.
Thanks for those comments.
I particularly like you saying that you have one position on pills, but don't hold others to that for themselves. Live and let live is great.
One question. This confused me...
>the three steps you provide seem a little over the top for me. Daunting even.
Really? Can I ask in what way? I don't need people to be put off by something that really is as simple as...
1. Find a "pill" that works.
2. Stop it.
3. Have it as backup if you have 2 nights of bad sleep.
My fear was that if I just put this down I would be hounded constantly about how many things there are wrong with this. I address all such nuances and questions in the videos. Maybe I've been too worried about this and gone too far the other way. Hmmm.