Long time ago: This actually combines a visit to a psychiatrist for sleep meds, and a speculation by an alternative health practitioner working backwards from the characteristics of bp 2: creativity, intellect, insomnia - all in the off-chart range, or so it is purported. Ambien causes memory loss, weight loss, and severe paranoia, the latter of which is addressed here. A bizarre experience - lots of lbs. later, and frightened, I ditched it - after hiding behind a couch, too afraid to go into my followup appointment, but which I finally managed, just in order to say "uh, no thank you."