u/brite_eyes

It’s commonly spoken about that not enough sleep can trigger hypomania, but I haven’t been able to find information on how much it takes for it to happen.

For those who have recognised what sort of sleep routine disruptions are enough to trigger mood destabilisation or mood episodes in themselves, how much does it take?

Does it require several days in a row of not enough sleep? Weeks?
How little sleep are we talking? Is 6 hours a night considered low enough to destabilise mood?

I’m asking because I’ve started a new relationship which is amazing but it’s influenced me to get a lot less sleep than I usually get — often only 5-6 hours on weekends and occasional weeknights, but I’ll be able to get my usual 7.5-8 hours on other nights.

The thing is that when work stress is added onto this lower amount of sleep, I don’t handle it very well. I end up becoming very overwhelmed, and this can turn into extreme agitation and sometimes rage, where I can’t shake the feeling, and it’s having a negative impact on my relationship. I can become vindictive and mean, where harmless texts feel like an attack, and I will start arguments. Even after we’ll have a rational conversation and work through it, the intense anger remains.

If I can manage to get enough rest it helps and it usually only lasts for a day or two, but I’m struggling to work out my limits, or what boundaries I need to set.

Any insight others can shed is much appreciated 🙏

I'm finding it difficult to get clear information on SafeScript rules. For context, I am in NSW.

I got a diagnosis in Feb and my psychiatrist prescribed me x2 dex per day with 3 repeats. He said I won't have to see him again for 4-5 months, and said my GP could give me new scripts in between seeing him.

I see my GP every month for regular check-ups and communicate with my GP that I often take more than my initial prescribed dose to get the same benefits.

Fast forward 3 months, I see my GP and she is going to give me a new prescription with the higher dose, but she gets denied by SafeScript and says I have to wait a month more until she can give me a new prescription because in the governments view I should have enough to last me for weeks longer. She told me that my psychiatrist would be denied as well under the same rules.

I cannot find anything online which explains these rules. Is my GP correct with these rules that even my psychiatrist would be denied? It doesn't make sense to me, because what do people do when their dose is to be increased?

Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks!

I use a couple of apps to track my daily health symptoms, but they don't fully fit my needs and I keep thinking about how good it would be if I could create my own app that takes the best options from the apps I currently use, and adds ones I need that the apps I use are lacking in.

Is this actually possible to do? I don't know anything about coding or app development, but I don't want to start learning if this isn't something I could do.

Basically the main things I'd need the app to do is:

• Track specific items each day like mental and physical symptoms, sleep, energy levels, medications, caffeine intake, amount of exercise
• Have some way of displaying the data in a way that I can easily see correlations between symptoms (like graphs) and also see a history of my symptoms over days/weeks/months
• If there's a possibility of connecting apple health data that would also be great as I wouldn't have to manually input that data every day, but if this isn't an option it's no biggy

I work in a creative industry, so being able to do the look of the app is the part that's making me really want to do this, because I already have ideas of how the use of the app could be improved from the ones I use.