I suffered from chronic Hypnophobia. I had it because of an early hospital experience in Sept. 4,2006 that changed my life and thoughts about sleeping. I volunteered to work 2 overnight shifts, I was suffering from bad thyroids that made it feel like I was swallowing my uvula constantly and it effected my epiglottis at the time. I made it through one overnight shift with 2 energy drinks and slightly drowsy. The second day I felt like hell because I couldn’t get enough sleep because my Mother was running a daycare at home and I had to sleep through it. On the second day my throat felt really worse and I had feelings of bad anxiety I wanted my Co-worker to call the ambulance and the Paramedics we’re very rude to me and they made my anxiety far worse. I started to talk to myself constantly uncontrollably until I reached the point of screaming rapidly and panicking. I was put in a waiting room and the other paramedics sedated me and pushed me around as I became distraught and panicking thinking this felt like death. When I awoke the next day I had a psychiatrist talk to me saying I was abusive in which I couldn’t control my behavior. Since then my Insomnia was getting real worse from this traumatic experience. All through September I was fine, I was feeling drowsy a lot in October, November and December I went through about 8 days not sleeping for an entire night. I had thoughts of death from the sleep deprivation and I ended up in a psychiatric ward for 2 weeks. Right now I don’t feel drowsy hardly ever anymore. I do sleep every single day but not well most days. I’m moving on with courage from health professionals saying that I will still live long.