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Why change from insomnia to excessive sleepiness?

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Dr. Alan Ali answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Change from insomnia: Could be result of change in moods from depression to other extreme, or could be from medications used to treat insomnia, or other underlying organic pathology.

Answered 7/20/2012

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