Posted by Girlnterrupted78 on September 3, 2007, at 1:56:11
In reply to Re: early morning brain chemistry elanor roosevelt, posted by Brody on September 2, 2007, at 23:12:54
Hi Janet,
What MAOI are you taking? That's amazing that it fully cured your morning pain.
I'm also on an MAOI (Nardil), and it has accomplished something miraculous as well. It's allowed me to wake up automatically at 6-7am every morning. I don't think I've ever been able to do that before entirely on my own (w/o alarm) and with such ease.
There's still, though, a component to my depression that doesn't let me get out on the street and start doing errands or going to the gym early. What I basically do is have breakfast, go online, read, and drink my coffee. I try to keep myself relaxed because I am too afraid that forcing myself to do something more difficult will trigger/worsen my depression, and I try to keep my depression at a minimum, so I treat myself like a baby. But I will be working slowly on changing my habits. I'll go with baby steps till I can do it without effort or depression.
As for the topic of MAOIs suppressing REM, it kind of scares me to think about it. The actual day I read that post, I began to wonder and get nervous. What if something really bad comes out the suppression of a natural, psychological process such as dreaming? What if dreaming is essential to our mental well-being and it ends up having atrocious effects.. I started thinking it could have some horrible results..
That night I was obsessing about the subject when going to sleep, and as I began falling asleep, I woke up and caught myself dreaming more than once. In one of my dreams I was in a boat with a lot of people. Then in another I was falling down the stairs and I woke up very anxious with my foot abruptly kicking in response to the fall.
So I figured I do dream. I just don't know for how long or what kind of dreams are, because after the initial dreams, I have no idea if there were any dreams the rest of the night.
I even dream while typing on my computer. When it's late at night, I begin falling asleep for short periods. Right now I just fell asleep for 5 minutes (it's 2:45am and I'm going to bed within minutes) and I just woke up and came up with some words that come from my dream which are totally unrelated to my life.
So I still have dreams, even if I'm on Nardil. Does anyone know why this is? Last time I read in the thread posted on this same site, that people on MAOI's don't dream. What's the deal then? Why do I dream?
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