When the black thing was at its worst, when the illicit cocktails and the ten-mile runs stopped working, I would feel numb as if dead to the world. I moved unconsciously, with heavy limbs, like a zombie from a horror film. I felt a pain so fierce and persistent deep inside me, I was tempted to take the chopping knife in the kitchen and cut the black thing out I would lie on my bed staring at the ceiling thinking about that knife and using all my limited powers of self-control to stop myself from going downstairs to get it.

Alice Jamieson

Tags: dead suicide depression zombie mental-health numb insomnia depressed unconsciousness heavy sleepless self-harm drug-abuse horror-films suicidal drug-use



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I'm an insomniac, my mind works the night shift.

Pete Wentz

Tags: sleep mind brain insomnia sleepless non-stop



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Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark

Tahereh Mafi

Tags: imagination dark horror insomnia sleepless



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Sleep deprivation is physically miserable and creatively cathartic, as internal landscapes rise up from their dormant ashes.

Jaeda DeWalt

Tags: insomnia sleep-deprivation



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From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

Jaeda DeWalt

Tags: inspiration mind creativity insomnia exhaustion



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I thought calming thoughts and visualized serene places. Eventually, i found myself drifting along the frenetic edges of my mind. The Sandman was nowhere to be found, as i slipped further away from sleep.

Jaeda DeWalt

Tags: sleep insomnia the-sandman sleep-deprivation frenetic-mind



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Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.

Gillian Flynn

Tags: thinking cats sleep ignorance drinking alone self-assurance alcohol lonely sleeping thoughts alcoholic cat insomnia mantra murphy-s-law the-mind talking-to-yourself ignoring voices-inside-your-head thinking-process playing-hard-to-get binging empty-your-head stop-thinking



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She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear —
the fear of sleep.

Briar Rose
was an insomniac...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.

Anne Sexton

Tags: insomnia sleeping-beauty briar-rose



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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

William Styron

Tags: psychology health depression intensity relief mental-health mental-illness insomnia rhythm depressed circadian-cycle



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Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.

("Out Of The Deep")

Walter de la Mare

Tags: darkness space insomnia



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