The painful complaints of insomniacs

  The painful complaint of insomniacs I am a young man of only 21 years old, 18 years old I have not yet experienced the joy from childishness and innocence, but I feel overwhelmed, irritable, uninteresting, nervous …… life is like boiling days, the night others sweet-smelling water surface is me with helpless, confused gaze through.  I don’t know exactly when I was, for what reason insomnia, but now I live in despair, the sky is dark, the pace of life is heavy, three years! I did not feel the comfort and joy of sleep for a day, lying in bed for nearly three hours every day before I could fall asleep, and as one dream after another passed I suddenly woke up, looking at the clock only four hours of sleep or less, but I was awake as if I had not slept, followed by watching with dull eyes as the sky whitened and brightened, and finally staying up until the phone rang pretending to look as if nothing had happened and lazy classmates got up and washed up together.  Finally for insomnia I went into the hospital, at that time I was already a serious neurasthenia, the doctor let me take a large side effects of Western medicine and can produce dependence, resistance to the drug Valium. At first it worked, but when I felt I didn’t need them anymore, the terrible insomnia returned. I was in agony, was I going to spend the rest of my life with a bottle of pills in my arms? The stares from my classmates, the questions from my relatives, the pressure of studying, I was about to collapse! For a whole year, my parents had worried and spent a lot of money for my illness, and my studies were almost ruined. The more I suffer, the more I can’t sleep, the more I can’t sleep, the more I suffer, I might as well rot a bladder, break a leg than this disease to the comfort. The most annoying thing is that Chinese herbal medicine is not covered by the reimbursement of medicine, which makes it even worse for the family who is already poor. Insomnia is a lifelong problem. No wonder the proverb says that if a poor person does not get sick, he or she is lucky! I drank the medicine and exercised, and I was careful about every detail of my life, but I still couldn’t get rid of the demon of insomnia from my life.  I despaired, gave up and felt that there was no point in living in this world, but when I was thinking of ways to end my life, my thoughts swept over my parents’ wrinkled faces, their heads full of white hair, their old eyes looking at their son’s cold corpse emitting heart-wrenching cries, my sister will lose her brother, my nephew will lose his uncle, all my relatives, friends, classmates …… will all leave me, I was stunned! I thought, is not there still more ways have not tried it! It’s not too late to die when you’ve tried and failed!  So I continued to look for prescriptions, find famous doctors, check information about insomnia, collect methods to sleep, as soon as I had time to move around Nanjing hospitals, large and small, but what followed was what anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, like a label on my body, I was anxious, but I also tried some heart therapies such as food therapy, psychological counseling, acupressure …… still play a role, so I had the whim to combine these methods, Wednesday to see a psychiatrist, Thursday acupuncture, insist on drinking Chinese medicine every day, and then a foot bath at night, the effect is really good, although it is very troublesome to follow up around, the number of invoices is also alarmingly high, but the welcome insomnia was soon brought under control. A few dozen no sudden improvement I also want to persevere, because I have confidence in life.  But when I was treating insomnia with my own set of methods, I wondered why I didn’t form an insomnia specialist hospital or set up a general insomnia clinic to provide a full range of three-dimensional treatment for patients with non-organic pathologies, combining all or part of traditional Chinese medicine, western medicine, psychotherapy, acupuncture, hypnosis, electromagnetic guidance path, food therapy …… Of course, as a patient, I may be too simple in my thinking, and some technical difficulties have not been taken into account, but only bold thinking can lead to bold innovation, and here I hope that some knowledgeable people and some conscientious doctors can advise me on this idea in the understanding of the suffering of these people with insomnia. I hope that all people can enjoy the sweet feeling of sleeping when they touch their pillows, and that all those who are prejudiced against insomnia can change their views and care for our group, so that the world can be filled with love!