Gone are the days of driving that train high on cocaine! The modern solution? Seroquel. :-] Spoiler: Spoiler But how? Seroquel is prescribed often in psychiatry. It works in that capacity with serotonin and dopamine. It has a very sedating effect, and in my life has worked best to treat anxiety and for me is best taken at bedtime. What you should know is that if you stop taking Seroquel, you cannot sleep. What? If you are a DJ who needs to perform, and will be doing such off and on for the first and second quarter of the year you will need to sleep and you will need to remain awake; some nights you might be at the helm of a favorite club. what? Similarly, if you drive a semi-truck for a living sleeping is necessary! But so is staying awake. i'm not following... Also, if you are in college there are many times you need to remain focused and also remain awake! followed by times when you really need to catch up on your sleep. Or a bouncer. Or a dancer. Or a police officer or deputy. This is a really good go to for all of those that won't have you worrying you'll be pulled over or arrested or something. What I wanted to share is Seroquel helps with all these! How? Seroquel does make you sleep! Let's pretend I'm prescribing it. When you take your 200mg at bedtime, you will be asleep in about an hour. The thing is that after about a month of the routine there is a withdrawal symptom. The term is scary, right? Yes. But the withdrawal symptom is wakefulness. When you take Seroquel, you sleep normally after about 1 hour. And when you don't take Seroquel? You tend not to sleep. I am actually a little drowsy as I write this, but I've gone through about a year's worth of nights like this. It always works. It always works when I need to sleep. That is worth knowing. It always works when I need to stay up. That is well worth knowing.
Well, it's a lot of both and it's up for grabs! It's also legal, cheaper than illegal alternates, and promotes a healthy sleep routine and schedule by putting the control into the hands of the person themselves. What I like about it is I don't oversleep, and also if I need to be up, or even if I don't want to go to sleep until later, at 12 or 1 or 2, I can simply not take it until I'm ready. If that is during the day because I keep my store open through the night (I own a minimart franchise opportunity) and don't have anyone to work the nightshift, I take it as soon as I'm home because we need the money. And it works! I sleep then for a full 8 hours and when I wake up, I feel as rested as if it were the full night instead of all day and into the evening.
No.. we love you! Seroquel isn't habit forming. It isn't psychoactive in any way. What is notable is drowsiness. It typically makes you go to sleep and is extremely reliable in that way! The other part of that which I know and likely others don't is that nights you don't take it, YOU DO NOT SLEEP. At all. You can't. As an example, when I accidentally wind up in a jail cell (my license is expired and I need to get it done, but I drove) I can't sleep. Not at all. There is no sleep neither of the nights I'm there. What? 48 hours. :-] What I'm getting at is this is remarkably reliable. For final exams? Yes. For double shifts? Precisely. It is that useful, and that's why I mention it.
For that, this is actually useful for military training, if not in battle; the problem being if you're needed before it wears off. The times you don't take it? You won't fall asleep.
A couple of hits of the right kind of Cannabis or a medicated brownie does the same for me, but it works faster and the side effects are wonderful! Brownie does take an hour for full effect.