Five Things I Learned Dealing With Insomnia

Ever since I was a kid I've never slept well. I would eventually fall asleep to the sound of my brothers either talking on the phone or watching TV and wake up at the ass crack of dawn when my father would for work. Let's just say from 11pm until 4am (KFWB!!! News 98!!!). That was normal to me until I got older and friends would talk about falling asleep at 10pm and waking up at 8am. That just sounded ridiculous to me. Who needs that much sleep?!

As I have gotten older my sleep has not gotten any better and there have been times where I've had full blown insomnia. I'm not talking about a day or two of not sleeping. I'm taking about days, weeks, and at the worse 30 straight days of living in my own personal Zombieland. In this Five Things I Learned Dealing With Insomnia I'll talk about some of the things I learned during these times. I once looked up hypomania and it sounded like some shit I was going through. Click here to check that out.

Sleep Is For The Weak

There comes a point where I would just accept that I was not going to fall asleep. After a few days of this I would eventually say to myself “Screw sleeping! I'm getting some much more done. Plus, I don't even feel tired!” I would go to work and laugh at those that were sleepy or showed up late because they overslept. Why weren't more people just not sleeping? It was awesome!

Hypomania's Runnin' Wild!

After all these years of wondering what my issue is I have finally discovered it! Hypomania! I have never heard of this thing and actually feel better having self-diagnosed myself. Have you ever heard of it? That’s what I thought. But now that I now have a name for what I am I feel 100% better about being a damned weirdo.

Every once in a while (meaning every hour or so) I go on wikipedia and search for random facts about stuff. I can hear a song, a name, or an idea and go there and find out what it is and its origins and such. This time I went looking for a wrestler that snapped and killed his family and himself. I saw that they said his son had what is called Fragile X Syndrome. While there I saw something called hypomania and thought it sounded cool so I read up on it. Hypomania has many different symptoms, ranging from awesome to even awesomer. Yes, that’s a new word. That’s what folks like me with hypomania do when we feel like it. Wanna see some other facts about this cool ass thing? Observe!

rapid talking: If you have talked to me you know that like most folks I am full of energy when I have consumed too much sugar. But another little known fact is that when I talk to you (like in my Rosscast’s) that is me controlling my voice. My natural pattern of speech is much faster and far lower. Camille says I talk from the back of my throat. Yeah, ask her to explain that.