My only son died three years ago. I haven't been taking any medications for depression anymore for a year, I have returned to work, but so far I have trouble sleeping. Can the drug - HYPNOGEN 10mg -1/2 tablets before bedtime make me addicted? What are the consequences of taking it almost every day for about 15 months? (I used to take other sleep medications before). Nights when I sleep without assistance are rare. As a rule, when I do not take my sleep medication, I wake up after about 2 hours as if I am well-rested and I cannot sleep until 5-6 in the morning. Then, the next day I am not able to work normally, and my work is particularly hard and absorbing.
This drug can be addictive, and you are already addicted, especially since it replaced others, which were also probably addictive. The evidence is your bad sleep when you don't take the medicine. Releasing this addiction must be slow, it is best to ask a psychiatrist for help, he or she may offer support with a non-addictive drug. Dependence on hypnotics may, paradoxically, cause increasing sleep disorders, its abnormal structure becomes permanent, sleep does not provide the same rest as it used to, it is easier to develop various disorders during the day: anxiety, depression, hypersensitivity to stimuli. Therefore, one should strive to return to "natural sleep". Sleep - it's good for you! But… a he althy sleep.
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Tomasz JaroszewskiSecond degree psychiatrist
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