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Sep 15, 2023Liked by Owen Scott Muir, M.D

And this analysis of oversight and the possible life ruining disasters that ensued is truly fascinating and somewhat terrifying as well. Forgot to mention that.

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So ambien is not prescribed anymore? You are talking about it in the past tense.

The problem with looking at mental illness apart from insomnia is you cannot tell if you are going extra crazy from not sleeping or if you don't sleep because you are going crazy. Of course people with severe insomnia are likely to

have mental illness but the things that crop up

when you get severe insomnia can be way outside the normal range of your standing illness.

Perhaps this is your point.

One becomes quite desperate if one never sleeps. Oh, the stories I could tell. But it's horrible to even remember.

Ambien seemed an essential thing for me during the period I took it. I was surprised to discover much later you can get high from it. I still don't know how. If it didn't work to help me sleep, then it would not feel like anything much. I would just stay awake.

I wasn't crazy about it because it made me extremely spacey the next day, even worse than not sleeping. However, it did help me sleep more than I was usually able to without it.

Because I seem to have solved this problem (though I still don't sleep normally, I don't go days and days unable to sleep) I don't know what is done for people with this affliction these days.

I hope to God there's something else for them.

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