Can severe insomnia make you insane?

Of course, you don't need to have made an attempt on Randy Gardner's record to know that lack of sleep can have some pretty unwelcome consequences. Anyone who has ever had to suffer a sleepless night will know just how disruptive it can be. read more

Severe insomnia can cause a host of problems. If for example you already have mental health issues it can make them worse. If you do not, it can cause depression or anxiety. If you are bipolar, it can kick off either a manic or depressive episode. If you have Schizophrenia is can make it worse. read more

Perhaps you can find one that helps you, I do empathize with you for I suffer from the same, seroquel does the work but not 100% and ativan which is a more sedative benzodiazepine. Insomnia is used as torture as we both know. read more

He cites research linking sleep apnea, in which breathing is disrupted, to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and the evidence of a connection between depression and insomnia as examples."It might be that those medial frontal regions tell the rest of the brain, 'You can chill,'" he says. read more