Social phobia and insomnia. Is it common?
Question:
veitikkjeheilt wrote: > Please, will someone reply to my message! I would like to hear about > people with social-phobia who has no problems sleeping! Is it common?
I sleep like a log. Sometimes I sleep too much but during the day. I use it as a defense mechanism. I have had one sleepless night in the last 5 years. Richard 
— I lost my train of thought, I think it’s in a tunnel.
Response:
"veitikkjeheilt" <veitikkjehe…@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:72da8a01.0207171506.3144e0f7@posting.google.com… > Please, will someone reply to my message! I would like to hear about > people with social-phobia who has no problems sleeping! Is it common?
Hmm….can’t help you there I’m afraid, I have severe insomnia. Sorry!
Response:
I have had insomnia (30% problem getting to sleep, 70% maintaining sleep) for over five years now. I was first treated for depression (Prozac, Trimipramine), but that didn’t make any difference. I probably never was depressed. It now seems more likely that anxiety is my problem. I would say that, on a scale from 0 to 100, I would rate 50 for social anxiety and 25 for generalized anxiety. In other words, not at all an extreme case of anxiety. I’m now in my third week with Dothiepin, an sedating antidepressant with anti-anxiety propterties. What’s your experience on this? Could such an moderat anxiety, and social anxiety in general, cause insomnia?
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Please, will someone reply to my message! I would like to hear about people with social-phobia who has no problems sleeping! Is it common? – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I have had insomnia (30% problem getting to sleep, 70% maintaining > sleep) for over five years now. I was first treated for depression > (Prozac, Trimipramine), but that didn’t make any difference. I > probably never was depressed. It now seems more likely that anxiety is > my problem. I would say that, on a scale from 0 to 100, I would rate > 50 for social anxiety and 25 for generalized anxiety. In other words, > not at all an extreme case of anxiety. I’m now in my third week with > Dothiepin, an sedating antidepressant with anti-anxiety propterties. > What’s your experience on this? Could such an moderat anxiety, and > social anxiety in general, cause insomnia?
