Question: I am a 19 year old girl. I started experiencing sleeplessness during my boards when I used stay up for more than 24 hours…then came a period when everything was going well until the time when I just couldn’t get more than two hours of sleep a night for like five days….
I had a sort of break down on the fifth day when my parents decided to take me to a physician who gave me one sleeping pill and five anti depressants to be taken every night after dinner. They worked for the next two months, I slept really well….But again the problem emerged a month back when I just couldn’t sleep for more than two to three hours as a result I used to cry the next day so much that it exhausted me totally. And I used to sleep that night and then again the same thing happened.Couldn’t sleep, cried and then slept the following night…I cried due to frustration….Then again for the next fifteen days things were quite better. Used to sleep for like seven hours until recently when I just can’t sleep.And I got into a university out of town…going to live in the hostel so I contacted a psychiatrist who gave me an anti depressant of 25 mg which I skip after every two days as am not very happy taking pills….Any suggestions and help will be greatly appreciated. Am leaving today and I just can’t stop crying as I didn’t sleep yesterday.