After a few weeks (slept perfect for about 2 weeks) with the ambien I started to wake up during the night, afraid I slept past my alarm (even when it was the weekend and had nothing to do), getting attached to pointless hobbies that I hated just to pass the time, doing things or wearing certain things at work just to get attention ANY attention – as if in my head…”how much do these people really pay attention to me?”, push the limits with all friends; piss them off to see how long before they forgive or stop talking to them to see how long it takes them to see how I am doing, etc.

I was on anti-depressant before, a few years ago,  but I can honestly say those symptoms were NOTHING compared to what its been like since I have been on ambien (heck before it was probably just pms compared to now), I have been more emotional crying at just about everything, paranoia, thoughts about being in rush hour traffic and just slamming on the brakes in front of a semi, etc.  these things never occurred to me before ambien.

It is just sad…all we want to do is sleep a full, at least, 7 hours…why does there have to be such a mental side effect?!?!  We can put a man on the moon but we can’t figure out…or I should say there isn’t one big-wig in a pharmacutical company that has a heart left, that can just let us sleep without wanting more money for an anti-depressant that we now have to have, because its the ambien causing it!!!!!!