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<blockquote data-quote="buddy" data-source="post: 511559" data-attributes="member: 12886"><p>I think I shared with you that this is exactly my coping mechanism. I think I was a mini-version of your difficult child when I was in high school/college... it never went to the level she is at... I managed to do school but not without some major drama and meltdowns (not at my parents but internally) and of course I had a lovely eating disorder to put the blame on at times....</p><p></p><p>If I am super stressed I can't sleep or eat...but when in the kind of place your daughter gets into...the overwhelmed, just too much to deal with/depression stuff...I get sleepy. Can sleep all day and I REALLY feel tired. Of course it is not physical sleepiness so getting the sleep does not help, it makes things worse. I find in my life as a grown up (and how I got out of it when growing up) I do best with a schedule and not giving in to that. Even if it means watching TV or something still not super productive. I do BEST if I can get outside. I would check into the AVE too because the research for using certain of the programs they have for SAD and other types of mental health challenges seems really good. Just google Audio Visual Entrainment. I found so many things I had not known...just a ton of research in Canada. As I said, the place we go through to use it has a rent to own program so you could try it and if it was a bust you can just send it back. The lights and sounds are weird and stimulating. Q is using a night/sleep program at the end of the day and during the day we switch between a mediate level program and a "brain booster" program. The later being the one we use before reading or a chore. (I use it too....I am using one of the meditate level programs to help me calm and think...it is good for anxiety and you can try it your self). Sounds like hocus pocus but it is very research based, has been around for many many years and the technology has improved so much, it is fairly simple to use. </p><p></p><p>(Q actually played with the buttons and pushed one she warned not to use because it can increase anxiety. After a blow up happened--and I didn't know what he did yet--- later in the day when I was going to set him up, he said he had done it himself because he wanted to try the lightning bolt icon... made me realize how much it really does affect the brain waves/chemicals. I warned him never to do that again, and I collect it now when the sessions are done. I found when it is done I can still see little flashing on the sides of my vision...doesnt interfere with anything, just interesting how it affects you. I like it and haven't done it routinely enough to see if it makes a long term impact on me....I am going to try though. One study said that compared to the groups using SAD lights and medications, this was the only thing that consistently relieved symptoms for people suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buddy, post: 511559, member: 12886"] I think I shared with you that this is exactly my coping mechanism. I think I was a mini-version of your difficult child when I was in high school/college... it never went to the level she is at... I managed to do school but not without some major drama and meltdowns (not at my parents but internally) and of course I had a lovely eating disorder to put the blame on at times.... If I am super stressed I can't sleep or eat...but when in the kind of place your daughter gets into...the overwhelmed, just too much to deal with/depression stuff...I get sleepy. Can sleep all day and I REALLY feel tired. Of course it is not physical sleepiness so getting the sleep does not help, it makes things worse. I find in my life as a grown up (and how I got out of it when growing up) I do best with a schedule and not giving in to that. Even if it means watching TV or something still not super productive. I do BEST if I can get outside. I would check into the AVE too because the research for using certain of the programs they have for SAD and other types of mental health challenges seems really good. Just google Audio Visual Entrainment. I found so many things I had not known...just a ton of research in Canada. As I said, the place we go through to use it has a rent to own program so you could try it and if it was a bust you can just send it back. The lights and sounds are weird and stimulating. Q is using a night/sleep program at the end of the day and during the day we switch between a mediate level program and a "brain booster" program. The later being the one we use before reading or a chore. (I use it too....I am using one of the meditate level programs to help me calm and think...it is good for anxiety and you can try it your self). Sounds like hocus pocus but it is very research based, has been around for many many years and the technology has improved so much, it is fairly simple to use. (Q actually played with the buttons and pushed one she warned not to use because it can increase anxiety. After a blow up happened--and I didn't know what he did yet--- later in the day when I was going to set him up, he said he had done it himself because he wanted to try the lightning bolt icon... made me realize how much it really does affect the brain waves/chemicals. I warned him never to do that again, and I collect it now when the sessions are done. I found when it is done I can still see little flashing on the sides of my vision...doesnt interfere with anything, just interesting how it affects you. I like it and haven't done it routinely enough to see if it makes a long term impact on me....I am going to try though. One study said that compared to the groups using SAD lights and medications, this was the only thing that consistently relieved symptoms for people suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder.) [/QUOTE]
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