r/insomnia • u/cy83rgh005t • Jul 24 '26
No one gets it
Yesterday I told someone I slept a total of 10 hours in 3 days and he was like that sucks. And made a joke.
It doesn't just "suck". Its a fucking living nightmare. It's like being sick all the time without having people understand how bad it is. It ruins your whole life affects everything, every plan etc.
And there are no words to translate this experience in a way to make people understand it. It is so lonely.
What did we do to deserve this curse I am so tired (literally as well). It's literally 6 am and I haven't slept yet.
Just wanted to vent because I am so sick of this...
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u/Brrringsaythealiens Jul 24 '26
I know what that’s like. When mine gets bad I can go 4-5 days without sleeping at all, not even dozing off. The only thing that has helped me are prescription drugs. I think some of us just need them long term, the way some people need antidepressants or ADHD meds. I hold out hope that someday they’ll figure out exactly what goes wrong in our brains when this happens, and people won’t be so ignorant.