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Does anyone abuse sleeping pills to sleep through shit?

Sweet P

Sweet P

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Lately I've kinda been abusing my Seroquel and haloperidol... taking them day and night just so I can sleep through all the shit I'm going through at the moment. Does anybody do the same? Not abusing sleeping pills to get high, but using them to sleep through withdrawals, bad feelings, depression, loneliness, etc.? It's 1.30pm and I've popped a 5mg haloperidol tablet just so I can sleep through the rest of the day - not because I actually need it for what it's prescribed for.
 
No, I admit that I like the buzz that I get from Ambien before I go to bed, though.

I don't think I've ever thought about sleeping to avoid problems. I would say you are putting a Band-Aid on a gushing wound, though.

Talk to someone? Get out in the fresh air, distract yourself with something else?
 
rhythmdaddy said:
Talk to someone? Get out in the fresh air, distract yourself with something else?
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Tried all that - hasn't worked. Plus I'm a total recluse at the moment cos I haven't had meth for a couple of days and I'm starting to enter withdrawals, so I don't really feel like leaving the house.
 
Don't get addiced to another drug in an attempt to give up another. Easier said than done, but I'd recommend trying to cut back a little bit each day. This should correlate with the easing of your withdrawal, and will give you a goal (and another bit of proof that you can kick it).

Good luck.
 
na man never abused sleeping meds but i've used(or abused?) sleep to try and get thru depression, shitty phases in life, emotions, etc. and to be completely honest it only makes it worse. excess sleep always leaves me feeling cmopletely drained, even more depressed, restless but still tired and anxious.

if you want to get past something you have to be conscious, and actively fight your demons man. exercise and a good diet will do wonders for you, atleast more than i thought it would. keep living man, go out and make new memories instead of just trying to forget.
 
I NUK3D U said:
Don't get addiced to another drug in an attempt to give up another. Easier said than done, but I'd recommend trying to cut back a little bit each day. This should correlate with the easing of your withdrawal, and will give you a goal (and another bit of proof that you can kick it).

Good luck.
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I don't think haloperidol (Haldol) is addictive, so that shouldn't be a problem. But thanks for the advice.
 
Hi Sweet P, you are the first person I have ever heard of abusing haloperidol. I found it very unpleasant.
I have been in the mind space where sleep is the only relief you can find, so I can sympathize.
Even though anti-psychotics are generally horrible, I found Largactil (chlorpromazine) provided equal relief to haloperidol without many of the side effects.
If you need to be asleep while going through withdrawl that's cool. It's the end that matters more in this rather than the means and at least the drugs are not addictive.
Give Largactil a go, or at least consider it as a possibility.
Hope you get through this soon <3
 
^ Isn't chlorpromazine also known as Thorazine? That's the oldest typical anti-psychotic... I'd have thought that would have more unpleasant side effects than haloperidol. Anyway, I'm getting sleepy so I better sign off.
 
Ive had a psychiatrist give me seroquel for sleep if I agreed to go on the lithium, it works is all I can say, I just took 100mg just so I can just go to sleep too
 
Yeah sweet P. I did that a lot in my time. Like I would sleep 14 hours then wake up and take sleeping pills. Its just cuz I was so fucking depressed about my situation.

Sweet P, you have to change. I know its hard hun. Oh god I know. But like its no way to live. Just things like getting out for a run everyday, eating well, and maybe getting a job or something. This shit will make you feel better.

I bet in your current circumstances you are physically debiliated to some degree from WD and depression and shit.

Literally for me, my recovery has been like an enormous fat person trying to lose weight. I started off by lying on a couch for a week sick as a dog. Then I moved up to like 5 minute walks. Then I started eating slightly better, but not much better. Everyday I just do a little something better than the next day.

My life still kinda sucks lol, but its more bearable definitely.

Sorry to give you unsolicited advice, just I thought it might help you. <3<3<3
 
Sweet P said:
^ Isn't chlorpromazine also known as Thorazine? That's the oldest typical anti-psychotic... I'd have thought that would have more unpleasant side effects than haloperidol. Anyway, I'm getting sleepy so I better sign off.
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Largactil is one of the brand names, along with Thorazine, for chlorpromazine. In Australia it's called Largactil.
You are right about side effects but if you are using them short term for sleep until you are better able to face the day then you shouldn't have to many problems.
 
I used to abuse the shit out of sleepers mainly to well knock myself out so I would have to deal with what ever w/d I was dealing with. Seroquel and Trazadone were my main knock out sleepers, still are, shrug. Ambien is ok very rarely. I used to use seroquel for bad coke come downs god I hated those feelings like a passion. The hangovers I get from them kinda suck and its hard to get out of bed so I only use them when needed.

Well thinking about it I didnt really abuse them I just took them as prescribed.

Thorazine never failed would make me puke for like 20 mins. I think I was allergic to it. Doing the thorazine shuffle. Did the job but I would puke first, fun! Always wanted to try Chloral Hydrate

Oh and Haldol is the devil IMO that shit launched me down the rabit hole into a world of make believe, not fun.

Peace,
Seedless
 
I hate flying. Not that I am afraid per se, or even anxious, I just can't stand the whole ordeal, particularly international flights, dealing with customs and immigration. Ugh. Anyhow 6 hours of travel usually = 40mg valium over the course. I like to sleep on the plane and just kinda be a zombie for the parts I can't sleep through.

Anyhow, I know probably not what you meant, but travel is such a hassel, I definately drug myself up so I can avoid dealing with it (as much as possible).
 
I would if I could.

I accidentally Overdosed on phenazepam (big surprise eh?) and basically slept for a couple of days. I'm addicted to poppy tea and I must have slept through a great deal of the withdrawals and have no real recollection of suffering. In that case it was helpful.

Unfortunately I live with my parents and I also fell down our flight of 12 steps and had to go to the ER. The shit has hit the fan but if I lived alone and had no job I'm sure I'd be sleeping right through them god damn withdrawals.
 
Usually when I had nervous breakdowns and went ape, I'd have to take huge doses of antipsychotics to the point where severe akathisia along with the resulting inability to sleep due to that would validate me taking benzodiazepines with it as well. I had to stop with the antipsychotics due to tardive dyskenesia. So all I got left are the other hypnotics, mostly Temazepam.

Nothing can really stop psychosis or whatever now, but when I do have meltdowns, I take 60mg temazepam to calm myself down. In that state of mind, it would not be sufficient enough to really sedate me. If I just plain wanted to sleep... well due to my propensity to be perpetually high, I wait until after the peak to go to bed.
 
Xolnox doesn't really do anything to me (even in 50-60mg doses) so I stick to Xanax to sleep through the insomnia (if i can) and any other shit that's going on.
 
when my old doctor use to prescribe me valium I did this all the time Sweet P. Was a way to escape. If I was home bored and lonely I would just pop afew valium and sleep the pain away.
 
i was popping ativans alot at one point, but then i my sleep naturally normalized, now i'm beginning to have problems again. Life is a roller coaster
 
I used to pop alot of benzos and just sleep. Ive never had all day access to Seroquel, until now, but if I did I probably would have taken that. My problem is I have sleep apnea real bad which isn't really good considering I will drink on benzos a lot until I fall over. Some nights nothing bad will happen other nights it'll happen 3 or 4 times that ill be in a deep deep sleep and ill stop breathing. I end up having to toss(try) and turn the best I can to wake myself up sometimes it gets really frightening so I don't/wont even take the Seroquel unless I have the worst speed comedown ever as im afraid sometimes I wont wake up. I have in the past took Trazadone, but the fucked up thing with this one is instead of knocking me out which it did for 2 days after making me feel incredibly nauseated before crashing, im up all night feeling ate up, laughing at the dumbest shit ever, and feeling mental. It literally keeps me up. I wish someone could explain that one to me.:\:|

I also want to add the day after I took it and it kept me up all night, I went fucking nuts. I couldn't seem to calm myself down. It took me a few benzos, a bottle of wine, and some weed to even chill out. This one REALLLY threw me off. I got extremely suicidal and I have a stash of Propranolol(correct my spelling if thats incorrect)heart stoppers and I wanted to take them but my friend talked me out of that one.

I feel like fucking shit today. I guess on those days its sunny out and there's no bright side, you can just think of a horse a foot and Sarah Jessica Parker. Amirite?
 
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