Self Hypnosis helped me to sleep

MY SOLUTION TO SLEEPING WHEN FIRST GRIEVING FOR MY DAUGHTER:

When my daughter Karen died suddenly,  I thought I would never stop my mind racing.
How was I to sleep? I knew the importance of sleep. I knew that just a few nights without sleep can cause mental health problems. I needed to sleep and would never take drugs. I did not even realise at this time that stopping Temazepam suddenly a few days before her death, may have been implicated in why the accident happened. (Story about Karen was published in The Guardian ).

MY SOLUTION TO SLEEPING WHEN GRIEVING FOR MY DAUGHTER:

• I avoided caffeine after lunch time. 
• I had a warm bath just before bed (this brings blood to right temperature to assist sleep)
• I used lavendar oil in a burner or in the bath
• I used SELF-HYPNOSIS the link is to an NHS web site not a commercial site!
• I drank herbal tea before going to bed, camomile or tranquility tea or sleep-easy infusion tea - works wonders!

WARNING - DO NOT STOP TAKING ANY MEDICINE SUDDENLY 
Many medicines, including some pain killers, tranquillisers, sleeping pills antidepressants and other psychotropics can trigger serious withdrawal reactions. Sleeping pills can be addictive and may harm your health

•  For withdrawal advice about benzodiazepines,  and z drugs (like zopiclone) - tranquillisers and sleeping pills see Professor Heather Ashton's Withdrawal Protocol on www.benzo.org.uk
• For Professor David Healy's SSRI withdrawal protocol email APRIL at SSRI at april. org. uk (email address displayed in this way to avoid spam).
• For information about reducing antipsychotic drugs see www.comingoff.com

Sleeping pills increase risk of death study finds

Sleeping pills increase risk of death, study suggests - published in the British Medical Journal

 Hypnotics' association with mortality or cancer: a matched cohort study

 In this open access paper by Kripke, Langer and Kilne, a study of electronic medical records of 10,529 patients who received prescriptions for hypnotic drugs were compared with 23,676 matched controls with no hypnotic prescriptions during a period of 2.5 years from 2002 to 2007.

 DRUGS PRESCRIBED included:
 zolpidem, temazepam, eszopiclone, zaleplon, other benzodiazepines, barbiturates and sedative antihistamines. 

  Conclusions were: Receiving hypnotic prescriptions was associated with greater than threefold increased hazards of death even when prescribed <18 pills/year. This association held in separate analyses for several commonly used hypnotics and for newer shorter-acting drugs. Control of selective prescription of hypnotics for patients in poor health did not explain the observed excess mortality. In the UK we are still trying to persuade the government of the long standing problem of involuntary tranquilliser addiction - take a look at the postings from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Involuntary Tranquilliser Addicton www.appgita.com

WARNING - DO NOT STOP TAKING ANY MEDICINE SUDDENLY 

Many medicines, including some pain killers, tranquillisers, sleeping pills antidepressants and other psychotropics can trigger serious withdrawal reactions

•  For withdrawal advice about benzodiazepines,  and z drugs (like zopiclone), see Professor Heather Ashton's Withdrawal Protocol on www.benzo.org.uk
• For Professor David Healy's SSRI withdrawal protocol email APRIL at SSRI at april. org. uk (email address displayed in this way to avoid spam).
• For information about reducing antipsychotic drugs see www.comingoff.com