Andrea Gunning

I wasn't totally conscious.

I couldn't wake up.

I couldn't walk.

I just felt like there were weights on my body and I just needed to sleep many more hours, even though I thought I'd been sleeping all night.

She'd never experienced anything like this before.

And quickly, this feeling became a regular occurrence.

She'd had anxiety and depression her whole life.

But I've never struggled that bad with my mental health.

I've never felt like such trash about myself.

I'd be in a conversation and I'd have to like just get out of there.

Like everything just felt so overwhelming.

I was literally just trying to survive and get to the next day and then the next day and the next day.

She became haunted by insomnia.

She'd experienced it before, but never this bad.

She was going days without sleeping.

I felt like if I can't sleep, how am I supposed to take care of the kids?

How am I supposed to get to work the next day?

It was awful.

Her doctors prescribed pills to help her sleep, but nothing seemed to work.

The only thing that made me feel better was alcohol, to be honest with you.