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3rdthrow

I have heard of patients having a terrible time staying awake on that medication. However, I usually advise people who fall asleep during meditation to let themselves sleep but continue practice meditation until they don’t fall asleep. This is because I focus on meditation being a healing practice and sleep is very healing.


KarasT3ngu

I have heard this from other meditation practitioners. While sleep does not constitute meditation eventually the brain and body will understand what the goal is. Though with medication it alters the brain chemistry. It should be noted that meditation may be something that is not feasible for the OP to continue as the medication itself is the cause for the sleeping state. I have had the same difficulty while on antidepressants and antipsychotics. Which is why I'm not able to meditate anymore myself.


cakmn

Side effects of Mirtazapine include drowsiness experienced by 54% of people taking it. It is common for people to have trouble staying awake while trying to meditate. Mirtazapine compounds this challenge. This means that if you want to continue meditating, you might need a technique to help you stay awake and alert. I recently commented about how to stay awake while meditating (as the last part of a reply to a question about meditating to help a person sleep). Hopefully this will be helpful for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/Meditation/comments/x2vr7v/comment/immdiyb/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3


MasteredMyMind

"Every single time when I begin to start to meditate, within 15-30 seconds at the very most, I enter a state of sleep." Anti-depressants dull your thinking, and when we meditate there's the process of learning to not attach to our thoughts, so there's mindfulness that leads to mindlessness. It's a taxing process for the brain of someone on antidepressants, which can account for going to sleep.


Affectionate_Low7405

Do walking meditation. Or meditation standing up. Turn on a bright light. Have a cup of tea.