Melatonin has worked for me too, better than Xanax.
really? I wish it did for me. I took 6 mg of melatonin and got nothing...maybe a tiny tiny effect but not much. What dose of xanax did you try?
I find my sleep patterns are weird now and we are NOT in MLC.
IT's probably a pre-menopausal thing, or so I'm told...which stinks b/c I don't know how long that will go on but I am a real night owl these days and that's not great.
M: 57 H: 60 M: 35 yrs S30,D28,D19 H off to Alaska 2006 Recon 7/07- 8/08 *2016* X = "ALASKA 2.0" GROUND HOG DAY I File D 10/16 OW DIV 2/26/2018 X marries OW 5/2016
Argh, having the odd issue with staying up late there myself 25yearsmic. Usually, for me it's late night TV, bad sci fi's but I've cut that down. Christmas worries or other stuff? Hmm, the search goes on...
I haven't posted much in the last seven years. I've been a lurker. Just lookin' to put back all the good help I've gotten...
Melatonin huh? Maybe that's worth a shot... most night it seems I can sleep ok, 6-7 hours. Then there's nights/mornings like tonight where I wake up at 3am for some reason or another. Brain kicks on and then forget going back to sleep. Just got up at 4:30 after lying in bed for an hour and a half, brain racing away. Maybe I can grab a nap before work.
Married 6 together 8 Me:38 W:31 second marriage for both SS12, SD10, S6 Bomb: 9/8/11 (day before our 5 yr ann) W moved out: 2/18/12 D final: 11/12/12 Share S 50/50. Spend as much time as I can with SS & SD
Good morning all, Thanks for all the great posts! Have slept better the last two nights, during the day I am taking some passion flower, valerian, and kava kava for anxiety, then at night I take one 50 mg of xanax. I will only be taking the xanax for about another week, so that I can get back into a good sleep pattern, then i will go back to valerian and melitonin.
m 54 XW 48 m 12 t 14 bomb 6-11 s 10-11 wife moved to other state 10-21-11 d 9-12
O GOD THY SEA IS SO GREAT AND MY BOAT IS SO SMALL!
Forgot to mention, when my w called me the other day to thank me for the card I sent, she also told me that our dog has cancer, a very slow growing variety typical to dogs at his age. She will keep me posted on his progress.
I had talked to my IC about whether I should tell my w that I was being treated for depression, and that I had likely had a low grade depression for most of my life, which would account for a great deal of my propensity to sometimes emotionally withdraw, tend toward control, etc.
My IC said I i felt comfortable discussing it then I should. I have always prided myself on being very self sufficient, didnt share alot of my feelings, etc. I thought long and hard about it, and finally decided to tell her when she called me. This was very difficult for me, but I did it. It was definatley a 180 for me. Six months ago I never would have done it, in fact, I would never have accepted that I could be depressed.
W was supportive, asked if I was getting treatment, and said that I was doing all the right things.
I wasnt trying to blame our m problems on depression, but I did want her to know that I recognized I had a problem and was trying to deal with it.
W has had her own depression problems since childhood, has had treatment in the past.
Anyway, I felt much better getting this off my chest. I now have a pretty good idea of what happened to me over the years in my m, and why I seemed to be looking in at the m from the outside, watching it slowly get away from me. I only hope that I get a chance to work on things again. Who knows?
m 54 XW 48 m 12 t 14 bomb 6-11 s 10-11 wife moved to other state 10-21-11 d 9-12
O GOD THY SEA IS SO GREAT AND MY BOAT IS SO SMALL!
Gunny you are doing well my friend keep working on you. Only God knows what the future holds so don't waste your time trying to figure it out. It just makes us feel hopeless. I guarantee that things will get better. I tell that to myself and starting to believe it. have a great one buddy
M 53 D 20 Separated 6/22/11 moved out 10/24 Together 26 yrs Married 16 W Filed for D 7/21/11 Served 9/6/11 D final 8/28/12
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
Hey rick, Thanks for the good words. Kind of cold and blustery today. Sorry to hear about your uncomfortable dinners. Hopefully things will change sometime in the near future, have a good day my friend!
m 54 XW 48 m 12 t 14 bomb 6-11 s 10-11 wife moved to other state 10-21-11 d 9-12
O GOD THY SEA IS SO GREAT AND MY BOAT IS SO SMALL!
Gunny, I am glad you're getting help for depression. You're definitely doing the right thing. You are doing a lot of great things for yourself! Keep it up! One day at a time, keep moving forward!
Hopefully, you'll get some of the mild weather we've been having. It's rainy today, but we're supposed to be back up in the mid to upper 50s tomorrow.
