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Suggest Remedy For Sleep Disorder Due To Anxiety, Stress And Anger Fits

Help, I feel like I'm falling apart!

I lived with my grandparents my whole life, and a few years ago my grandpa got alzheimer's, and it's really tough. On top of that our family has a history of bipolar disorder and depression.



I'm like most teenagers in that I am a night owl. I am naturally awake late at night and phsically cannot sleep earlier without a sleep aid, which drugs me up so much(even a small dose), I wake up late on school days.



Basically I have been sleep deprived, and I think it's making whatever mental problem I have worse. I often have EXTREME high and low periods.



I always feel like I can't concentrate, and I have random fits of anger and depression (crying a lot and even feeling like being violent). I feel like that I will lash out unpredicably one day, and I'm scared. I don't want to be crazy?



I go to therapy, but I must be good at hiding how crazy I feel inside, because my therapist assumes it's because of my grandpa's alzheimer's that I'm depressed.



Please help! How do I tell my therapist?! I can't open up to people like I used to! I'm becoming antisocial, and turning to food for depression... I feel like a failure. I can't even do as well at school anymore.

Mon, 4 Jul 2016
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I think you will need medicines for depression. Therapy alone does not seem to be working for you. If over sedation is what you are worried about, there are a number of antidepressants which do not sedate. If you need mild sedation, there are many antidepressants that are mildly sedating as well. The key thing here is to treat your depression as symptomatic treatment of sleep alone will not cure you. Hope that helps!
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Suggest Remedy For Sleep Disorder Due To Anxiety, Stress And Anger Fits

I think you will need medicines for depression. Therapy alone does not seem to be working for you. If over sedation is what you are worried about, there are a number of antidepressants which do not sedate. If you need mild sedation, there are many antidepressants that are mildly sedating as well. The key thing here is to treat your depression as symptomatic treatment of sleep alone will not cure you. Hope that helps!