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[Globutron]

Weird. This thread seems to be full of people attacking a single person for saying... nothing bad at all, from what I'm reading.

[bucheon bum]

[D.D.]

Actually the broken record is the billions of dollars spent on advertising prescription drugs until they become so accepted that people defend them and call people against them hippies or assume that the person must be weird or alternative.

Strange how advertising can create truth and when someone speaks against they get bad vibes from the converted. Yes a few pills of xanax do cause harm and shouldn't be taken lightly. The pattern goes a person takes a few pills and then they end up taking other pills to mask the side effects of the first pills and so on and so on.

The first steps in believing that symptoms are something that require pills was the wrong move. So some of us speak up to help others not go down a bad path. The culture that makes pills acceptable is the people that make money from their sales influencing people that don't know any better.

[NYC_Gal]

[captain kirk]

[NYC_Gal]

Yeah but she probably brings Enya CDs for ambiance.

[swoodman]

Melatonin capsules - strong herbal supplement

[Hotwire]

Pm sent.

[Ralphie]

'Kalms Sleep' is even better than melantonin. You fall gently into peaceful slumber... available in the UK at most supermarkets and Boots drugstores. Not sure if I'll be able to find them in North America when I head back there for the Christmas holidays. Korean doctors are reluctant to prescribe any sort of sleeping pills for me.

[Mr. Pink]

I can't believe people have trouble falling asleep.

TRAIN YOUR BODY. When I first came to Korea, I started work at 4pm and finished at 10pm. I trained my body to stay up until 5-6am and wake up at 1-2pm. That was a bad mistake, and I paid for it. I retrained my body to go to sleep at 11pm and wake up at 8 or 9 am. I tell you by the end of the day I would be exhausted and ready to crash.

Working now, it is hard for me to stay up past 9pm as I am mentally exhausted. If you aren't falling asleep, you aren't working hard enough, and you worry too much about things you have no control over.

Yes, another lesson: don't worry about things that you can't control, especially before bed.

Not tired enough? Stop working part-time hours. Work more. Exercise more.

[southernman]

D.D. A friendly word of advice, to belittle the posters on daves in general after several of your posts that are basically some sort of rant with almost religious vigor begs the question.

Are you perhaps several steps down the road to recovery yourself?

You really sound like some kind of 'born again' and I'm not knocking born again people, only perhaps, one that sounds like they're preaching..

Hey, even if its just first year Uni I am the centre of the universe and know everything, recovery from that disease/addication can take some time..

Of course, you're right, everyone reacts to medicine diferently, duh.... we've all watched House, Scrubs and countless other medical programmes on TV.

And yes, Pharamacuetical (sp) companies are greedy and subversive.

So what else were you actually trying to say... post after post after post

[MattAwesome]

studying always puts me to sleep. or go for soju. "putting koreans to sleep since 1980."

[Kurtz]

I think it's just stress. Some people are sensitive and are prone to taking things personally. Such people are prone to insomnia, and no amount of exercise, green tea, warm milk before bed is going to solve it. You have to sort out the thoughts spinning in your head, that stop you getting to sleep, or waking up because of your subconscious mind.

You have to solve the problems you have, and wait for the next one. It's a bad state of affairs, but that's how it is.

Sleeping/anti-anxiety pills give you a terrible nights sleep. It's more like being knocked out and I feel terrible the next day, really fuzzy in the head.

[NYC_Gal]

[Hotwire]

I second what kurtz wrote.

You will find that the vast majority of ppl say the same if you browse some forums on the topic.