Eek
01-05-13, 10:20
I'm into week four of Olanzapine (zyprexa) withdrawal and still hardly sleeping. Last night I took a backward step and hardly slept at all, now I'm terrified of going to bed tonight in case I don't sleep again.
I don't want to go back on the tablets again, so I'm battling on, but I'm terrified that my sleep is permanently damaged and that I'll never sleep again. When I do sleep for twenty minutes or so at a time it doesn't feel like my normal sleep it feels like a weird sort of half sleep, like my brain has somehow been damaged by the drugs and it will now prevent me from sleeping without the medication. I just really really want to sleep.
I don't want to go back on the tablets again, so I'm battling on, but I'm terrified that my sleep is permanently damaged and that I'll never sleep again. When I do sleep for twenty minutes or so at a time it doesn't feel like my normal sleep it feels like a weird sort of half sleep, like my brain has somehow been damaged by the drugs and it will now prevent me from sleeping without the medication. I just really really want to sleep.