Insomnia really sucks, it makes pain and depression worse

I have had a sleep disorder most of my life. I remember as a child getting up and looking out the bedroom window and thinking I was the only one in the world awake right now. Living on an isolated farm it was easy to believe it.

When my depression finally got bad enough I was so messed up from trying things that didn’t work the insomnia was torture and I finally got prescribed sleeping pills. [Sorry about that guys I published by accident I am not thinking too clearly]. I also saved my depression meds for night time as they usually had drowsy side effects. Sometimes they knocked me out for awhile.  But in time it always came back….

Like this past month or so I have been falling asleep in the daytime and am awake at night or part of it and dozing off and on sitting up during the day in bed with my laptop trying to work on my other website which is just crawling along by the way at this rate it will take another month to get the next walkthrough up on the site.

No funny research this time, or whacky stuff this time someone proved the truth of what my title says but no doctor will do dick all about if you go to them and complain that the pain is worse……

I didn’t even know there was a Journal of Clinical Pain huh…..

http://journals.lww.com/clinicalpain/Abstract/2002/03000/Major_Depression_and_Insomnia_in_Chronic_Pain.2.aspx

Home > March/April 2002 – Volume 18 – Issue 2 > Major Depression and Insomnia in Chronic Pain < Previous Abstract | Next Abstract > You could be reading the full-text of this article now if you… Become a subscriber Purchase this article If you have access to this article through your institution, you can view this article in Clinical Journal of Pain: March/April 2002 – Volume 18 – Issue 2 – pp 77-83 Articles Major Depression and Insomnia in Chronic Pain Wilson, Keith G. Ph.D.*; Eriksson, Mariane Y. B.A.†; D’Eon, Joyce L. Ph.D.*; Mikail, Samuel F. Ph.D.‡; Emery, Patricia C. B.A.† Abstract Objectives: Insomnia and depression are common problems for people with chronic pain, and previous research has found that each is correlated with measures of pain and disability. The goal of this study was to examine the combined impact of major depression and insomnia on individuals with chronic pain. Methods: The participants were patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain who underwent evaluation at an interdisciplinary treatment center. On the basis of semistructured interviews, participants were classified in three groups depending on whether they: (1) met criteria for major depression with insomnia (n = 38); (2) had insomnia without major depression (n = 58); or (3) had neither insomnia nor major depression (n = 47). The groups were then compared on self-report measures that included the McGill Pain Questionnaire, the Beck Depression Inventory, and the Multidimensional Pain Inventory. Results: Participants with major depression and insomnia reported the most difficulty on measures of affective distress, life control, interference, and pain severity, although the insomniac patients without major depression also had elevated scores on some measures. In regression analyses, insomnia severity ratings did not contribute uniquely to the prediction of psychosocial problems when depression was controlled, but they did contribute to the prediction of pain severity. Conclusions: These results suggest that patients with chronic pain and concurrent major depression and insomnia report the highest levels of pain-related impairment, but insomnia in the absence of major depression is also associated with increased pain and distress. © 2002 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.