What Causes Difficulty Sleeping Along With Anxiety?

Brief Answer:
Need information to find root cause of problem

Detailed Answer:
Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Saghafi and I'm a neurologist from XXXXXXX OH. Greetings from the other end of the country. I understand that this is a 2nd time around for this question. Your previous one was answered by Dr. XXXXXXX (psychiatry).

Obviously, you're not going into a whole of detail as to exactly WHY you have anxiety, exactly what the facets of your anxiety exactly are, details about your insomnia such as how long has this been going on for? According to the other question you asked of Dr. XXXXXXX sounds like a few months. But my guess is that you've probably not slept well.....I mean REALLY WELL.....for a heckuva long time.

If that's NOT true then, perhaps your problem is easier to solve because then, you should be able to put your finger exactly on the event, incident, maybe on the date that everything went to Heck in a Hand Basket. Can you?

Also, can you specify what you mean by "destroying my life?"

I think you'll agree that we really need to dig and get deeper to be able to straighten out whatever it is that is having this kind of effect on you. And drugs to either put you to sleep or simply calm you down, though helpful when used wisely and sparingly, do nothing to really confront and overcome the origin of the problems you're having.

There's about a gazillion questions that I could ask but you probably know the majority of them.

But here's one that maybe you wouldn't've thought of--- "Do you have nightmares?" What's your history like back when you were growing up at home? Good? Bad? Ugly? How about schooling? Are you college educated? High School educated? Out working, still in school, own your own business, wish you owned your boss?

My point is simple.....and I'll repeat myself if necessary ad nauseum...anybody who is simply going shuffle you a script or 2 is just not doing you any favors....the question is, "Are you interested in doing YOURSELF a favor by taking this bull by the horn and really working it?"

Also, and this is important....NOBODY on this network is capable of writing prescription medications for any patient. It is simply not the policy of the network to allow its physicians to write scripts so that's just out there but at least doing the footwork for getting you to a point where as I said before, "Judicious and well timed use of certain drugs" could be of benefit ALONG WITH OTHER METHODS TO ATTACK THESE ISSUES is important but we'll have to deal with working with a doc on your side when the time is right.

If you wanna' continue this discussion more and think there's merit to what I'm saying then, lemme know...I'm hangin' out.

If on the other hand you'd rather chill and think about it a little....that's cool....but in either instance could you do me a huge favor and just leave a little written feedback and a STAR RATING of this response in terms of how well it answered your question.

Of course, it's NOT THE ANSWER....it's not the MAGIC BULLET....you point out the person on this or any other network that has that singular advantage over the rest of human kind for something like this....and hey, "I'll take him my problems too and we'll have a Jam session man!" HAHA!

Here's my personal web address to send questions specifically to me....if you'll trust my methods...I'm not a psychiatrist or psychologist but hey, I run the Headache Clinic at the XXXXXXX VA Hospital and believe me there are people in that joint that have HUGE...HUGE problems! You're not military by any chance are you?

So, if you end up deciding to rate this answer and leave the feedback now would you also consider CLOSING THE QUERY from your end. That will signal the system to process and archive the thread for future use.

If you want to write anything directly to me in the future you can get me on this network through the following address:

bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi

This query required 45 min. physician specific directed review, research, and final draft compilation for envoy.

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