Posted by zeugma on March 21, 2004, at 15:37:26
In reply to Re: Sleep deprivation, posted by Questionmark on March 21, 2004, at 12:41:09
Until I started taking medication that worked (TCA + buspirone), if for any reason I needed to be awake in the morning, I would stay up all night. This made me feel like a human being in the morning, but of course came with its cost; additional sleep disruption and distortion of my (already chaotic) sleep cycle.
When I was in college, I would routinely stay up two, even three nights in a row to write my papers and study for my exams. Then I would collapse and sleep for like a week. I am in graduate school now and I am trying to find a better way of writing papers. Even though I'm sleeping better, and my mind is functioning better, the association between late nights and study sessions is almost unbreakable. I wrote the first chapter of my thesis in January after staying up all night, and became a wreck at work for the remainder of the week. The thing is that my reuptake problem should be fixed by my meds, but I still get that extra kick in the early mornings.
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