Sleep

[jokova]

There is an excellent audio tape and book available from a Melbourne psycholgist, (David Morawetz), who claims an 87% success rate. I'm half way into it and it is reducing my particular dysfunctional sleep pattern already. I do find his way of talking and his accent pleasant and I mention this as quite a number that I've tried over the years grated. (J. Arthur Jackson used to practise at Chatswood in Sydney and he not only helped many aircrew but psyched our First Eleven in the late seventies into thrashing the Poms by a more comfortable margin than may otherwise have happened. Nothing slick or glib; he had a easy persona.)

http://sleepbetter.com.au

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try http://www.sleepbetter.com.au/

[Approaching Minimums]

I have always thought that sleep is just a replacement for coffee...

Sorry, I couldn't resist, I'll crawl back to my box now.

Best Regards,
-AM-

[Loose rivets]

Zopiclone was not acceptable and the only sleeping medication acceptable to the CAA now was Temazepam.

Whin a year? Almost unbelievable!

It a way I wish that I had simply tagged onto this very constructive thread, rather than start another. ( "Dangers of Temazepam and Valium.") But I knew that I would be opening a can of worms for myself and thus would not making an impartial or totally constructive post as a result. Best that it was kept to one side.

As I wrote my comments I realised that I was holding back hugely–it was much, much worse than my description of the reaction implies: and I had taken very little. The next day the memories of that time 35 years ago, rolled around in my head all day.

The main point that I was trying to make was, that while I was affected, who was I? Certainly a man that could turn out a virtuoso performance in a simulator...but who would be making that crucial decision on a dark and stormy night? Someone that had a uncrushable ego, and could see no danger? Or indeed, that would fly into a rage?...I hope not.

The longer term affects are subtle; there is no big switch that turns them off completely.

In the PDR adverse reactions that I tagged on the end, Temazepam comes out by far and away the worst, though I personally was less affected by this.

Since modern technology has allowed researchers to find traces of LSD in people from the ‘70s, the times or ‘half-life time' that these types of drugs linger, has been highly speculative, and I believe that the time Temazepam takes to loose its MORE OBVIOUS symptoms, has been known about for several years.

The folk that have a working lifetime of disrupted sleep patterns, are without question a special case. When lives can be lost due to weeks of tiredness, there should be immediate action. The law fails the public time and time again on issues like this.