Does meditation help you with sleep?

[Vonus5591]

Lower your heart rate , relax?

[Hidden]

Hi yes If your allowed and finding the right one

And suitible

Sleep important 😴

For less knock on effects and side effects

If sleep long term issue

Coukd ask

Doc

If your suitible for

Trazadone

[Vonus5591 in reply to Hidden]

Thank you will ask

[ladeda]

If you mean do antidepressants and other meds help you sleep, ALL medications have side effects, that's why good doctors will look at all the symptoms to put you on the best one to help with everything, remember there is never one solution that fits all and perhaps some medications are just to calm the symptoms so that we can try to work on the problem and find a different solution.If the problem is more trying to find something to help for sleep disturbances, tacking medication isn't always a good idea but more of a last result having tried the alternatives.

There are so many different problems, is it a problem falling asleep, as you say, lowering your heart rate and relax, perfect if we could turn a dial and that could happen when your mind has decided to work overtime and thinks bedtime is the ideal time to keep worrying about everything! In which case you need to work on calming thoughts, as the heart slow so does breathing and metabolism and sleep comes. Of course to do this it's a matter of trying different things to see which works, things like breathing exercises, meditative thought exercises, having quiet noise in the background , YouTube has lots of sleep aids like rain storms or white noise. If the problem is waking up after a few hours and not being able to get back to sleep, it sometimes helps having a hot drink like milk and honey as well as going back to all those relaxing techniques.

Your certainty right to bring up the importance of a good sleep and your medical centre might also be able to point out resources that are in your area that might be of help as well.

Don't be alone, just keep finding what helps.

[Vonus5591 in reply to ladeda]

Thank you 🙏

[Just_breathe_1]

Meditation wasn’t effective for me, but I know that it has been for many others.

Mindfulness worked for me (yes, they are different). I am no longer as anxious, or as angry.

[Vonus5591 in reply to Just_breathe_1]

Thank you

[Thegamer03]

For the most part yes I have spent most my life on various sedatives/sleeping med and some worked some haven't, for me I been on melatonin since a child even now it still kinda works, I also take amitripline for my crps and restless leg syndrome but it also helps with my sleep and promethazine I have found it to be the best at if I ain't slept for a few days or I'm really struggling to sleep I take 50mg of it and does the job.

One the other medications I have tried and was on after being in manic episode for 2 weeks and didn't sleep which then unfortunately caused me to go into pyschosis but the drs tried me on max dose of zopiclon and it did nothing liturally nothing and that's why I was in the manic state for the second week as they tried it and yh it didn't work unfortunately I ended up getting sectioned and cuz they resrlised for the most part it was due to lack of sleep idk what they gave me but I got dosed up on some kinda of sedative that made me sleep thankfully and after a few days to make sure I was doing better and out the pyschosis I was discharged

[Vonus5591 in reply to Thegamer03]

I'm too scared to use anything for sleep as incase I get addicted but I did ask for melatonin. The doctor refused to believe it would help me

Thank you for your story as it makes me believe there is something out there

[Thegamer03 in reply to Vonus5591]

Yh np there are a bunch of sleep meds out there that u can't rly get addicted too, I got rly bad addictive personality and technically still an addict to my adhd meds that is amphetamine (I can no longer miss a day at all or I become so unwell I have become hospitalised but also I feel I can't function at all without it now) so yh ik the worry but defo see maybe the promethazine cuz its not one of the addictive type ones

[Vonus5591 in reply to Thegamer03]

Thank you for reply x