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Won't go to bed

My daughter has always had problems sleeping. She has terrible sleep habits and is now at the point where she is awake all night and sleeping all day. She will be starting back to school soon and I can't seem to get her back on schedule of sleeping at night.

She is very drowsy and falls asleep in the chair watching TV or reading a book but she won't go to bed.

She swears the minute she goes to bed, she is wide awake so she wants to stay in the chair. She frequently falls asleep in the chair.

I believe she can't get good quality sleep if she's not lying down in the dark but she insists she can't sleep once she goes to bed. She says she just lies there and can't fall asleep.

I remember reading a quote in a homeopathy book about 'Child doesn't want to go to bed alone' or something like that.

Does anyone know what remedy might help her?

Thanks,
ruth
 
  ruth45 on 2010-08-08
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
You have just mentioned about sleep habits of your child. More information on other fronts is needed.

What about general behavior, fears, anxieties, and anger ?

Food cravings/aversions ?

General symptoms ?

Diseases that run in the family.
 
sameervermani last decade
I’m Ruth’s daughter. I’ll answer.

General behavior, fears, anxieties and anger:
I don’t have anything to do because I’m awake when everyone else is asleep. I’m on the internet all the time because that’s the only thing to do besides watch tv (nothing’s on) or read a book (my supply is exhausted). I’m lonely and afraid of being that forever - that no one will want me because I am so thoroughly messed up. My grandmother died suddenly a year ago and my downward spiral began then. I’m terrified of getting another phone call with news that a loved one is hurt/dying/ dead.

My life has recently been nothing but turmoil. In the summer of ‘09, I was kind of down for no real reason, sick of school and just tired of everything. Then in mid-July, I had cellulitis in my leg. I had just recovered and then August 1st my grandmother died suddenly. October we found out we might lose our family business where we all work. November we found we wouldn’t close, but we had to sell so my dad had to change companies. December my mother was fired by my grandfather – it was ugly. He didn’t actually fire me. He said that what I did, my work, my job didn’t really count and I wasn’t really an employee. A rift grew. He did horrible things and treated us all very badly. I’m angry, furious, I miss my grandmother.

So yeah, I’m a horrible angry person and fed up with my entire life top to bottom. I can’t sleep. I can’t go anywhere because nothing is open when I’m awake. I can’t do anything but sit at the computer and wish I was someplace else, someone normal.

I can’t sleep. I can’t sleep and I can’t make myself sleep. I can’t make myself stay awake either. I’ve tried to stay awake for a day after being up all night and run the clock around so I could maybe fall asleep at a normal time. It didn’t work. I fell asleep at 5 pm and was awake by 1 am and couldn’t go back to sleep. Now here I am.

I’m one big ball of anxiety and fear and pain and anger and have been for a year. I’m fat, suddenly I realize it and I hate it more than I can explain.

Food cravings/aversions:
I don’t have any particular cravings. My diet has been terrible for the last year, mostly fast food/junk. I want ‘clean’ tasting food. My favorite thing to eat lately has been Subway sandwiches. Sometimes after I eat I feel a heaviness in my stomach, like a lead ball.

General:
I can’t sleep like a normal person. I’ve always been obese and a few years ago I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and sleep hypopnea. Back when I was on a normal schedule, I had severe, crippling daytime sleepiness. It affected my high school performance. I arranged my schedule in college to work around my sleepiness and didn’t have as many problems. I had a 3.8 GPA. Then my grandmother died and everything went to hell. I started sleeping in class sometimes and I couldn’t pay attention and I failed a few classes. Now I’m completely out of whack and reversed.

I also can’t seem to finish anything. I start a project and halfway through I leave it where it sits, incomplete. I lack drive.

I’m exhausted: mentally, emotionally… I’d say physically but I haven’t done anything more strenuous than lifting a milk jug in forever. I’m too tired to exercise.

I’m hopeless because nothing ever gets better.

Family history:
My dad and uncle are obese. Both of them plus my grandfather (the same one I mentioned earlier) have the sleepy thing. My mom’s an anxious person. After this year, I’ve turned into a worrier also.


Above, my mom only got it half right. If I've actually managed to fall asleep in the chair, usually the action of getting out of the chair and walking to bed wakes me up enough that I sometimes can't fall asleep again once I get into bed. That's definitely true when I'm awake and it's 'time' to go to bed. I lie there and can't fall asleep. Then the chain starts: the anxiety of not being able to fall asleep when I know I have to so I can get up in the morning keeps me from sleeping.
 
ruth45 last decade
as long as no other meds -drugs or maintaining factors exist so as to complicate/block treatment then ---look into sepia --daily use LM1 as homoeopathic guidelines explain---also need find way get some fresh air with casual walk---
 
John Stanton last decade
'I’m one big ball of anxiety and fear and pain and anger and have been for a year'

Fear of what ?

Anxiety about what ?
 
sameervermani last decade
Also, what was the dominant feeling within you coming out of the episode with your grandfather ?
 
sameervermani last decade

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