Need help immediately for sleep disorders!!

Hello everyone! I want to share a really weird symptom that i am presently having and it has made my life much complicated.
Many people around the globe suffer from insomnia.I am a young adult and for the past one or two months , falling asleep seems to be the toughest thing in this world for me.With bedtime approaching, i start to feel panic that lack of sleep will make my life more difficult the following day and this process will continue on and on and become a permanent pblm in my life that will cause a massive setback in my career also.
Actually, i do not exercise or go to the gym or play outside.Most of the time , i am busy on the phone or stay indoors with my eyes in front of the tv or mobile screen.This has been the story for many months in the recent past.
I have just completed my postgraduate degree and taking preparations for competitive exams for jobs and higher studies.So, there's no more college for me and no more dynamism in my life activities.In college, i used to be so busy and active and sleeping was never an issue.It would automatically come to me the way it occurs for every living creature on this planet as the bodies are programmed in such manner since birth.But, when i was in college i often used to skip sleep at night by studying late and now, it seems that my body's bio clock and internal cycles have been all affected and become haphazard.I am disrupted my own body system from functioning it in the normal manner in which God had programmed it to be,thereby inducing some harmful effects.I must also mention that i got addicted to watching excess porn and masturbation and i now read that these habits change one's body internally and cause massive imbalance of body chemicals.They make the nerves excited and hypersensitive and deplete the brain of it's precious neurotransmitters.BUt,what is really causing me a lot of trauma is the following situation:

Now, even if I go to bed early or on time,I do not feel sleepy at all.WHAT IS REALLY WEIRD IS THAT EVEN IF DUE TO SOME REASON OR THE OTHER IF I FEEL SLEEPY ALSO, I CANNOT SLEEP.As if, my body system that lost that inbuilt mechanism to fall asleep.In case of a normal living being,whenever it tries to sleep by calming the mind or feeling tired,sleep comes naturally.A person or any other creature will slowly feel relaxed and sleep will automatically take control of the body, slowly detaching the connection with outside world and that man will fall asleep without even realizing.It is an inbuilt mechanism via which the brain and the nervous system work together.And, it is not within our voluntary control.
But, in my case, the situation us COMPLETELY ABNORMAL.Whenever, I try to sleep or relax, I cannot sleep as my mind cannot detach itself from the outside world.I feel restless and nervous.As if I have lost that inbuilt mechanism of sleeping,which had been present inside me from birth and which is present in all living creatures.I cannot let go of things around me and relax like a normal person when we tries to sleep.I am overconscious of the fact that i am trying to sleep and may be it will again be a failure,as if my system has stopped working in the natural process.I feel restless and have a feeling that may be this pblm will continue throughout my life and feel very depressed.It sounds strange but the fact is that even if i feel sleepy,i cannot sleep.I get a feeling that the switch to my brain just cannot be turned off for falling asleep,as if that mechanism has somehow stopped working!!Sleep just cannot come and take control of me as it used to be earlier!!May be my nerves and senses have become so active that they cannot detach my senses from the outside world, i.e that switch to the brain just can no more be turned off on its own.I know,that it is a strange situation in which very few people are in.
i have read that the neurons in a region called VLPO of the hypothalamus of the brain control these sleeping mechanisms.It scares me a lot to wonder what if in my case, that part or those neurons have somehow lost their inbuilt programming and can no more operate normally!!!!Indeed,it sends a shiver of pain down my back.I feel very tired and frustated during the day.Can anyone die without having sleep because his brain is not working properly or lost that ability?
For people reading this post, i want to ask u that do u think that such things can actually happen at my age(23) and the brain has permanently lost it's ability to sleep??Can i put things back to normal??Has anyone of you been in such a situation??Please reply

I also want to mention that i do not take sleeping pills.But, my doctor had recommended me anti anxiety tablets (anxit 0.25mg) two months ago.If i do not take them, i face the above mentioned problems.But, even if i take half of the prescribed dose(0.12mg), i have observed that i can sleep for 7 hours or even longer than that at night.DO u think that the reason for my difficulties in sleeping is anxiety and lack of exercise or disruption in normal body cycles due to unhealthy lifestyle?? Is it true that the brain will eventually fall asleep if it wants to , no matter whether it has been awake for 3 or 4 days???or the person will die after 10 days of sleeplessness because he can no more sleep on his own??

If my nerves or sleeping mechanisms would be devastated, then can it be possible that mere use of anti anxiety medicines (not sleeping pills and do not contain melatonin) can normalise my sleeping mechanisms and make me sleep for 7-8 hours??If my nerves and mechanisms would have been damaged,could this thing work for me?please answer.Also tell me what i should do to take my body and sleeping abilities back to normal??Please help.me.I want to sleep on my own like the way i used to do it, without use of anti anxiety pills.

Basically you need to be active in some way. Get your body moving and wear yourself out so you DO get tired. And why not take melatonin? You can buy it at a lot of stores no prescription needed. Many doctors use this method long before an anti anxiety for sleep. I struggle with sleep on a nightly basis and take nothing. But I am active every day. House work, walks, errands etc. Hope to be working soon as well. But you gotta do stuff to make yourself physically tired. Not just head tired.

Well you csn die without sleep but you can sleep on meds. There is a disorder called fatal sleep insomnia. You would have to go to a sleep doctor for that diagnosis though. Do you dream on the meds?

Well Denster, till so far i have never dreamt on meds and the disease called fatal sleep.disorder has scared me so much that i feel a shiver of fear down my spines if i remember it somehow.I have read about it on the net and they said that it was a rarest of the rare type of sleeping dosorders thar proves deadly in the end and has no cure.I pray to God that this rare disorder does not take away my life!

But, i can never believe my luck.i came to know that it was more commonly a genetic disorder , but in my whole family, no one has ever had any forms of insomnia.However, i might end up being a victim of sporadic fatal insomnia which has no genetic connections and os spontaneous.

I learned how a music teacher called Michael Corke from Chicago died of this disease in 1991 afyer going sleepless for 6 months.The trauma that one faces is enough to kill.These facts have almost given me a heart attack, let alone the disease ..i will die of the heart attack if i ever have it.

Actually, all these problems started two years ago since i have been in university. I used to skip sleep at night and study and wake up early in the morni g with little or no sleep at all.i prevented my body from functioning in the normal manner ..actually forced it to do so.

Since the past 6 years, i have been engaged in chronic overmasturbation and excess porn watching which obviously alter the brain and neural pathways.i have known that they cause an imbalance of neurotransmitters and change the body chemistry. My cicardian rhythms , sleep cycles all are disrupted along with the bio clock of my bodyy.I do not feel fine and energetic as before and feel that my body has changed..i can feel the difference myself.

i feel unusual..different from how i was before all these things started.Mere insomnia was fine , but 2 months ago, this strange symptom started that i cannot fall asleep deapite feeling very sleepy and tired as if my brain just cannot switch off, which happenswith a normal creature during sleep.It just cannot relax. I feel restless,anxious and pressure on my head as i try to detach my consciousness from the outside world during sleep.

I have read on the net, how the thalamic neurons in coordination with the neurotransmitters involuntarily control the sleepong mechanisms.What i fear is that due to negligence of sleep for many days,abnormal lifestyle and too much porn watching, i have made tremendous imbalances of neurotransmitters in my head and now fear whether these activities have damaged my thalamic neurons which make us fall asleep???

I even know that sleep deprivation could cause accumulation of proteins in the synapses and slowly kill out nerve cells.Fatal insomnia is also caused by accumulation of prion proteins,so i fear whether i have just sparked off such changes inside my brain by altering it's chemicals,pathways or damaging the interconnections of the THALAMIC NEURONS ,which promote sleep??? Even though i do not have a family history of the disease , i gear that these factors and lifestyle that i mentioned above just produced an equivalent scenario in my brain too!!

I just feel like MICHAEL CORKE ..i feel that my brain will not be able to shut down itself..never..initially for the past 3 months,anti anxiety medicines have worked very well, but now i am so anxious and so tense, they do not seem to be working well..in fact despite taki g a tab last night, i coukd not relax.I again remembered that music teacher and felt that i will never be able to sleep as uf that mechanism has been spoiled.I remained anxious throughout the night and could not sleep.On other days, anti anxiety pills work so well but yesterday, it did not. I do not know whether day by day, my thalamic neurons are getti g lesser and lesser and that's why the real pblm is emergi g or whether it is my anxiery and fear that is aggravating the situation??

please reply to my questions regarding damage to thalamic neurons via chemical changes and porn watching and sleep negligence are concerned..whether they have put me on same track as fatal insomnia,,..because nerve damage is permanent condition and has no cure, i fear that i will never be cured of this disease instead, i will meet the same fate as people i talked of above. i will go to a doctor surely, but tell me, as i am very young,and the damage inflicted over the past years, is it strong enough to cause nerve damage ..is it that ecslasy thing to occur?? please do me a favour and discuss in details

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Originally Posted by chesslover Hello everyone! I want to share a really weird symptom that i am presently having and it has made my life much complicated. Many people around the globe suffer from insomnia.I am a young adult and for the past one or two months , falling asleep seems to be the toughest thing in this world for me.With bedtime approaching, i start to feel panic that lack of sleep will make my life more difficult the following day and this process will continue on and on and become a permanent pblm in my life that will cause a massive setback in my career also. Actually, i do not exercise or go to the gym or play outside.Most of the time , i am busy on the phone or stay indoors with my eyes in front of the tv or mobile screen.This has been the story for many months in the recent past. I have just completed my postgraduate degree and taking preparations for competitive exams for jobs and higher studies.So, there's no more college for me and no more dynamism in my life activities.In college, i used to be so busy and active and sleeping was never an issue.It would automatically come to me the way it occurs for every living creature on this planet as the bodies are programmed in such manner since birth.But, when i was in college i often used to skip sleep at night by studying late and now, it seems that my body's bio clock and internal cycles have been all affected and become haphazard.I am disrupted my own body system from functioning it in the normal manner in which God had programmed it to be,thereby inducing some harmful effects.I must also mention that i got addicted to watching excess porn and masturbation and i now read that these habits change one's body internally and cause massive imbalance of body chemicals.They make the nerves excited and hypersensitive and deplete the brain of it's precious neurotransmitters.BUt,what is really causing me a lot of trauma is the following situation: Now, even if I go to bed early or on time,I do not feel sleepy at all.WHAT IS REALLY WEIRD IS THAT EVEN IF DUE TO SOME REASON OR THE OTHER IF I FEEL SLEEPY ALSO, I CANNOT SLEEP.As if, my body system that lost that inbuilt mechanism to fall asleep.In case of a normal living being,whenever it tries to sleep by calming the mind or feeling tired,sleep comes naturally.A person or any other creature will slowly feel relaxed and sleep will automatically take control of the body, slowly detaching the connection with outside world and that man will fall asleep without even realizing.It is an inbuilt mechanism via which the brain and the nervous system work together.And, it is not within our voluntary control. But, in my case, the situation us COMPLETELY ABNORMAL.Whenever, I try to sleep or relax, I cannot sleep as my mind cannot detach itself from the outside world.I feel restless and nervous.As if I have lost that inbuilt mechanism of sleeping,which had been present inside me from birth and which is present in all living creatures.I cannot let go of things around me and relax like a normal person when we tries to sleep.I am overconscious of the fact that i am trying to sleep and may be it will again be a failure,as if my system has stopped working in the natural process.I feel restless and have a feeling that may be this pblm will continue throughout my life and feel very depressed.It sounds strange but the fact is that even if i feel sleepy,i cannot sleep.I get a feeling that the switch to my brain just cannot be turned off for falling asleep,as if that mechanism has somehow stopped working!!Sleep just cannot come and take control of me as it used to be earlier!!May be my nerves and senses have become so active that they cannot detach my senses from the outside world, i.e that switch to the brain just can no more be turned off on its own.I know,that it is a strange situation in which very few people are in. i have read that the neurons in a region called VLPO of the hypothalamus of the brain control these sleeping mechanisms.It scares me a lot to wonder what if in my case, that part or those neurons have somehow lost their inbuilt programming and can no more operate normally!!!!Indeed,it sends a shiver of pain down my back.I feel very tired and frustated during the day.Can anyone die without having sleep because his brain is not working properly or lost that ability? For people reading this post, i want to ask u that do u think that such things can actually happen at my age(23) and the brain has permanently lost it's ability to sleep??Can i put things back to normal??Has anyone of you been in such a situation??Please reply I also want to mention that i do not take sleeping pills.But, my doctor had recommended me anti anxiety tablets (anxit 0.25mg) two months ago.If i do not take them, i face the above mentioned problems.But, even if i take half of the prescribed dose(0.12mg), i have observed that i can sleep for 7 hours or even longer than that at night.DO u think that the reason for my difficulties in sleeping is anxiety and lack of exercise or disruption in normal body cycles due to unhealthy lifestyle?? Is it true that the brain will eventually fall asleep if it wants to , no matter whether it has been awake for 3 or 4 days???or the person will die after 10 days of sleeplessness because he can no more sleep on his own?? If my nerves or sleeping mechanisms would be devastated, then can it be possible that mere use of anti anxiety medicines (not sleeping pills and do not contain melatonin) can normalise my sleeping mechanisms and make me sleep for 7-8 hours??If my nerves and mechanisms would have been damaged,could this thing work for me?please answer.Also tell me what i should do to take my body and sleeping abilities back to normal??Please help.me.I want to sleep on my own like the way i used to do it, without use of anti anxiety pills.

Have you had a sleep study done? People are quick to label themselves as having sleep troubles but fail to see a sleep doctor and get to the bottom of it.