Friday 21 November 2008
f'n' much better than on waking/ lay awake between 2245 and around 0600, first time i've'd insomnia in a long stretch/ i was plagued by sleeplessness from birth, the climax coming around 2003 when i was a cycle courier and for over 4 months slept only 0-3 hours per night, usually closer to 0/ then, exhausted and with a 12.5 mile ride to get on 'circuit', i'd drink 16 shots of espresso (four quadruple lattes) during the day, a neat vicious circle/ when i first used heroin i slept for 16 hours straight and during the three year period i was addicted i would sleep around 13 hours a night/ then methadone (100mls/day) and the dose allowed me to sleep through the night/ thus the last five years, in spite of their tempestuous nature, 've been the happiest of my life/ with sleep one can deal with most problems but without sleep even the slightest difficulty is amplified/ recent studies on pilots found they performed worse when deprived of sleep than drunk/ the long term health problems created by insomnia are numerous and terrible/ a lack of sleep deprives the body of it's ability to produce vitamins e and c, leaving the immune system weak and one looking haggard/ the profound mental health problems it can induce are shocking, and i say this from first hand experience/ paranoia and anxiety were my constant companions 'til '03/ anyway, best not obsess about it or whoopsie!/
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