Chronic insomnia?

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Kingpin said:
"and is safe and not habit forming"
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For a real insomniac, IMHO, everything is habit forming. I've been addicted to a sleep mask since moving into this house 2 yrs ago with windows facing the am sun. I can be in a coffin tonight and i still need the sleep mask or i'll struggle to fall asleep no matter how exhausted i am (i maybe i pass out, but if wake up in the middle of the nite i'll need the sleep-mask as a comfort to fall back). I've had month-long periods of being addicted to white noise in the past. And in the spring i often form an addiction to ear buds when the birds start chirping... and i'll require them even if the coffin is noise-proof.

At the same time, if i'm exhausted, i still have the ability to nap on a couch with no mask, no noise prevention stuff. I won't be long one since some noise will eventually wake me up, but it's just a different scenario entirely due to some weird context-specific habituation over time.
 
Trazodone then 4-6 beers is what I do. You can't stay awake long enough to get knee walking drunk so it's a win-win for me because I'm prone to overindulge in the booze. I can't say I wake up feeling like a million bucks but I sleep like a rock, have some truly bizarre dreams, and get out of bed feeling way better than anyone who tosses and turns all night and barely sleeps at all. Double shot of espresso and I'm highly productive an hour after waking up. I've experienced sleeplessness from a very young age and nothing is worse. It's torture all through the night then you feel like shit all day too. You just have to do what it takes to get to sleep even if it's not a "perfect" solution. I was also a long term ambien user before trazodone and I never had any hallucinatory/sleepwalking issues unless I mixed it with booze. One night we watched American Gansgter and my wife found me rummaging through the closet in the middle of the night. I explained to her that all our heroin was hidden in there and we had to move it because the feds were on the way. And more than once I thought the closet was the bathroom. But no issues of that kind since switching to trazodone. You might as well try it. Ambien also had worse carryover effects for me than Trazodone.
 
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