sometimes i get sleepy and feel like i can actually fall asleep easily, but i start thinking about the time i'll wake up and i get extremely stressed, then i get insomnia again. i just fear that if i fall asleep at certain times the next morning i won't wake up early, if i have something to do in the morning i either go to sleep super early in preparation or this happens and i pull an all nighter to be sure i won't be asleep past the time i'm supposed to be awake. this sucks

TLDR; falling asleep easily, but always waking up around 6 hours later in the morning, tired but unable to continue sleeping.

Thankfully I haven’t had any issues falling asleep lately, but I’ve been waking up earlier than needed every single morning. So, if I sleep at 3, I’ll wake up at 8:30 am. if I sleep earlier, I’ll wake up earlier too.

Usually 6 hours after, and I’d feel tired and know I need more sleep, but also I’m too alert and my brains thinking a lot already and I cannot fall back asleep. I feel sleepy throughout the day as well.

Sometimes after several days in a row of not sleeping enough, I’ll manage to get 7.5-8 hours of sleep one night, but then the cycle repeats. I feel chronically sleep deprived.

What can I do to fix this? It’s been a big problem for me because it’s causing me to get very sleep deprived.

I’ve tried melatonin, it helps me with falling asleep (which isn’t needed bc I’m not having issues with that anymore) but it doesn’t help me with my current issue.

So for the past months I’ve not been able to sleep and if I do get sleep it only tends to be a couple hours it’s gotten to the point we’re my hand is twitching and I feel like I’m losing control of my self

Ever since I was young I have had sleep anxiety when I was younger I had a fear I would die in my sleep....I'm now 34 and go through stages of sleep anxiety I only get it the nights before work I will get an hour or 2 of sleep sometimes none but when I don't have work i sleep fine. I've had hypnotherapy which worked well I'm gonna rebook at some point. Is there anything you have tried that has really helped? I'm on antidepressants I don't really wanna up the dose unless I really have to. I'm just so exhausted going into work with no sleep as I am on my feet all day and do deliveries

Just putting my experience here. I had a session of wet cupping 2 months ago as suggested my someone but it didn’t fix my insomnia but just made me calm and relaxed. Last week I took a leap of faith again and had another session. It really fixed my insomnia, I’m sleeping around 7-8 hrs now. I will see how it goes, I will update my progress.

Some background info, I struggle from severe depression, anxiety and have schizoaffective disorder. I was diagnosed at 15 years old. I am now 16 turning 17 in january. For as long as I can remember, I've had problems with my sleep, but usually I was able to fix them with time. Recently, I would say like the past two months or more, I haven't slept a single full night. My anxiety has gotten really bad when I try to sleep. My mind starts racing and I start feeling pain, guilt from past mistakes and extreme worry about what is to come. I feel like im going insane. I force myself to try to sleep at no later than 9:30 pm, as I have to wake up at 5 am for school. It takes me about an hour to fully fall asleep, which consists of me having racing thoughts and tossing and turning in bed because I dont feel comfortable. After I finally fall asleep, I wake up at 2 or 3 am non stop, there hasn't been a single night where I dont wake up for the past 2-4 months. I've been losing track of time, I don't even remember when this exactly started but it feels like its been months. lots of days I forget the month and day we're in. I've started to hallucinate and see the walls and floors breathing at me. I feel as if demons are attacking me. I feel them trying to overwhelm my brain with these negative thoughts trying to push me over the edge I know they want me to hurt myself. I'm having a hard time differentiating what is real from what is not and I feel paranoid every second im at school. I feel so alone. Even with support from my family, I still feel alone with my thoughts and my emotions. I feel a heavy weight on me and it hurts to just wake up nowadays. I know I don't wanna die, but when will this all end? I feel as if theres no escape to these problems, I feel as if im only getting worse. I'm on and off with my meds, currently prescribed Fluoxetine, Lorazepam and seroquel but the seroquel hasnt helped me sleep at all even with high doses. I'm so scared. I'm scared that something is gonna happen to me soon that I won't have any control over, I keep falling into states of confusion and misdirected anger due to my depression and lack of sleep. What can I do? please if theres some medication or some herb that will seriously induce sleep for me, tell me. I cant keep going like this, i feel so tired of everything and have no energy to do the things i could always do. I have no motivation anymore. I get home from school and go straight to bed, just to lay there repeating that same cycle, being in my head for hours until i somehow manage to fall asleep. Today I ran away from school, I had only 3 hours of sleep in me and walked 9 miles to my home, I arrived and went straight to bed hoping to gain back those hours of rest that i missed during the night. I layed down and closed my eyes feeling severely exhausted from the walk, expecting to fall asleep shorty. I layed there for 4 hours and did not sleep at all. After 4 hours of laying there with my eyes closed, I gave up. I broke down crying in frustration. I just want to sleep. My mind doesnt feel rested at all and it hasn't for a long time. What is happening to me? Please help me.

I’ve had a cold for about 3 days now and I’ve slept less than 7 hours in the past 2 days. I’m incredibly tired but can’t force myself to fall asleep, I tossed and turned last night from 3 am to 7 am. Im not sure if this is because of my cold or not but i cant get myself to relax. I twitch a lot when trying to sleep and start to feel nervous. Does anyone relate?? I’m feeling like shit

It was caused by olanzapine it stopped my deep sleep cycles so every day I would wake feeling like I never slept the night before. Is this CJD? I've seen specialists that can't figure it out. I'm amazed the human body can go a long time without deep sleep but I'm sick of this.

I am asking myself if it‘s normal, also for people who don‘t suffer from insomnia, to have deep sleep only in the very beginning of the night?

Concerning my sleep tracker, I fall asleep kind of fast and then have a short phase of deep sleep. Then I wake up (after two to three hours) and my sleep is extremely light from then on. I often have the impression that I do not really fall asleep for more than a couple of minutes anymore.

Do healthy sleepers sleep deeply also after waking up (shortly)?

I’ve been taking traz for insomnia which has worked really well, sleeping straight through the night at least 8 hours. However, I have these big bags under my eyes I didn’t used to have. Is this a thing? Anyone else experience this?

I have been taking Lunesta 3 mg and 7.5 of Mirtazapine. The combo works sometimes, other times it doesn’t. Previously I was taking 50 mg of Seroquel at .05 of Ativan. It worked okay for a while and then stopped. I have been taking Lunesta and Mirt for about a week now.

I have an upcoming sleep study. My insomnia has been so bad, sometimes I won’t sleep at all. Other times I get 4 hours, sometimes 5 but very broken sleep. I want to make sure I can sleep for this study, it’s very important. Feeling pressured makes it hard for me to sleep, also I worry about being in a different environment and being away from my husband and baby.

What combo of medication should I take to make sure I get some good sleep? I have been taking CBD gummies with 5 mg of THC and 50 mg of CBD. They have been helping, but I don’t want to take them for the sleep study because I get anxiety sometimes with THC. They have been helping me though, so I don’t know if it would be worth it to take them or not.

This sleep study is very important. I have been suffering from insomnia and it’s very important for me to do this test.

Hi! I am a personal shopper which means i have to wake up early for my shift at 6am. I work Thu-Sat and i go to sleep at 9:30pm and wake up at 4:35am. On the night before Thursday i can never sleep well enough without a sleeping aid. I will be tired enough to fall asleep (ill turn the lights off, limit screen time + use eye comfort setting, not eat a lot before bed etc) but my brain will constantly be thinking/dreaming about something and i will toss and turn. I will also feel stressed even though my job isnt stressful and its actually quite easy. What can i do about this? This has been going on for a few months now once sometimes twice a week. Should i take a sleeping aid once a week or is that a bad idea? If you have any advice or anything that works for you then please share as it would help me out :)

Does anyone else pre-create low-stress lists of chores/activities to do in the middle of the night when one cannot sleep?

I was hoping such a prepared list would make my next episode more tolerable and less horrible. "Well, at least I accomplished x,y,z..." This might also prevent mindless TV/scrolling time and lessen fears of future insomnia, because at least I "have a plan."

Would love to know what you all think. Thank you.

Hi, I’m an 18 year old male and have recently started treatment for several disorders. I have been diagnosed with severe ocd, moderate depression, moderate adhd, which all make it quite difficult to sleep. I also have npd and am in the prodromal stage of schizophrenia. I have had issues sleeping since the age of 5, my main issue is that it just takes way too long to fall asleep. As I’m much younger than many of you on this sub, I have only had the chance to try Risperdal and Tryptizol, neither of which I’ve been impressed by, also since I’ve started taking tryptizol I’ve concocted a suicide plan but I’m not sure if that’s related. I currently take Ritalin at 20mg, twice daily for a daily total of 40mg, and Zoloft at 125mg, as I only started about 2 months ago, and finally tryptizol at 10mg. If it’s worth anything I take Zoloft and tryptizol at the same time.

I’m looking for a medication that doesn’t interact with anything I’m currently on, that has highly sedating properties, but will still let me be able to get out of bed in the morning. I live in Dubai so some medications may not be available. If you’ve read this far I highly appreciate it as I’m struggling quite a bit more than I’m letting on. Thank you.

I’m a long time sufferer of insomnia here. I primarily struggle with sleep maintenance where I can never get a deep sleep or usually wake up at 3 in the morning and can’t fall back asleep. I was curious if anyone has had success with magnesium glycinate. Or would this just be another waste of money on something?

Anyone with chronic insomnia/anxiety who takes RX and has gone through pregnancy- did you continue with your medications or not? Thoughts- insights?

The only reason why I experience depression and anxiety in the first place is due solely to my sleep problems (not necessarily insomnia). When I get a full night’s rest, I feel positive about life, sociable, and capable of completing tasks easily and I am way more intelligent. However, whenever I get a poor nights sleep, it’s the complete opposite— I become highly anxious and extremely irritated by my surroundings. My cognitive abilities will become awful, and even basic clear thinking becomes an immense challenge. Anything less than seven hours of sleep triggers these symptoms.

I am not an insomniac, as l actually do have days of very good sleep. However, if I have a few days of sleeping fewer than 7 hours a night, I will begin to feel suicidal. I have been made to see therapists against my will in the past due to how bad it can became.

People think my anxiety stems from college etc, but that isn’t the case AT ALL. My anxiety only arises from the uncertainty of whether I’ll get a good night’s sleep or not, and it intensifies if I have plans for the following day.

Has anyone had success switching between Unisom and melatonin to avoid tolerance with success?

I was thinking of alternating 7 days Unisom and 7 days melatonin to avoid tolerance. Anyone tried this before?

I’ve been having terrible insomnia recently. This week alone I probably slept 3-4 hours over the last 3 days. Yet for whatever reason I don’t feel completely destroyed during the day? I literally just feel like I’m off lines or something and my eyes have this feeling of complete alertness. I’m guess this is just my cortisol and adrenaline going haywire but I need to sleep. Has anyone experienced this and know what will help?

Since my insomnia started I have been having muscle twitching all over my body all day long, has this happened to anyone else?

Hi I've always had a relatively hard time with sleep schedules but particularly the last 3 days have been awful. 3 days ago I was up 34 hours before finally sleeping. I visited my local practitioner and they gave me trazedone but I took it last night and it didn't help. I'm now up 26 hours and counting and it's really messing with my mind. I have irrational and really depressing thoughts and don't know what to do. It's impacting all areas of my life, has anyone else dealt with this? If so how did you manage it? Thank you

I'm very tired, man. I wish I could be normal and sleep like anyone else. I see that other people sleep early and I wish it could be me. I try to sleep early, but I can't seem to. I shake uncontrollably, I don't know why, and every time I close my eyes I just don't sleep. I'm tired, man. I'm only 18 years old. I should be out there having the best time of my life because you are only young once. I hate insomnia, I'm just tired.

im visiting my long distance girlfriend and it should be the highlight of my year, but instead i get more and more irritable day by day. im getting less and less sleep as nights just turn into me laying next to her with my eyes open after sealing them shut for 30 minutes-an hour to try and turn my brain off. its so frustrating. i hate this so much. ive tried reading, ive tried breathing, ive tried pacing around her room but my body just wont sleep. the worst part is im so tired. i feel like im finally tired enough to sleep and it starts working for a second and my body just randomly starts itching somewhere and the spot im in is no longer comfortable enough and its another 15 minutes of tossing and turning. sorry for the incoherent rant as said previously im so damn tired. EDIT: i should also mention theres absolutely no time zone difference between us.

for the last 2-3 years or so i’ve been having sleeping issues where i either don’t sleep at all or i’m only able to sleep in early morning 3-9. it’s not always like this though, id say about 1-3 times a month there are nights where I’m able to sleep 11-1 naturally, but majority of the time I’m not. i was prescribed seroquel to help me sleep which did work, but I’ve decided to stop using it as it makes me too drowsy in the morning and I’ve slept through alarms because of it.

i’ve talked to people about how it’s hard for me to sleep at night and in my latest talk about it, i was told it’s because i’m always on my phone at night. i’ve been told this many times and im just not sure if that’s the reason or not. like i understand how that could probably cause me to not sleep well but at the same time i literally just don’t feel tired during the night. there are times where I get so bored during the night that i try to just fake sleep but it doesn’t work.

it feels like there’s a disconnect between my body and the part of my brain that controls sleep. i usually fall asleep just from being tired and can sometimes make it happen sooner if i really need to wake up early. i naturally get tired between the 3-5 am range but it’s a subtle tiredness so i could end up staying awake until 9 am. can anyone give their perspective on this? i’d really like to be able to sleep during the night without seroquel. forgot to mention but melatonin doesn’t have much affect on me

eta: i forgot to add different sleeping issues ive had in the past. before my current sleeping issue, i had issues where i would just wake up numerous times during the night and would naturally pull all nighters

I've had a long history with intrusive thoughts they're not always bad thoughts, it's just my mind races when it's just me and the bed.

I am in the middle of a benzo taper and during this taper, my mind has been way more clear and I'm having sudden realizations about the most random shit.

Anyways, when it comes to the day, it feels like I can sleep easily, but when I get home from work, my mind starts reving up and I avoid going to bed "because I don't want to sleep". Maybe this idea of "not wanting to go to bed" is kind of like my brain stopping me from going into my mind?

What's your sleepless bro's opinions?

I took 60mg of Mirtazapine for 3 years because of very severe insomnia. I gradually decreased the dose to because my weight was horrible. It's been 5 days since I took Mirtazapine and it's hell. I'm not sleeping at nights at all. Not even with Zopiclone.

Has anyone successfully switched from zopiclone to eszopiclone? My doctor doesn't want to prescribe zopiclone anymore, but only out of fear that the health insurance company will take recourse…

Vent post.

It's 10:45pm. I should have been asleep by now. I slept for 5.5hrs last night, and I don't know if I will sleep at all today, and I'm terrified.

I'm at a large job conference, and today was such a stressful day. Tomorrow might be a stressful day as well. Oh man, this is not fun.

Honestly, I don't think I can sleep tonight. I just can't. I guess I'll just rest my eyes for the night...

Insomnia, no, stress sucks!!!!

Hello guys ! First time posting here. Im a 24 YO Male , and for the past two weeks every single night i wake up in the middle of the night after about 3-4 hours of sleep , despite the fact that im going to bed tired. All my life i had problems with going the bed thats why im taking melatonin for years now (about 2 mg per night) but for first time i have problem with not being able to maintain my sleep. It all started one night that i came back home after night out with friends and i took a little extra melatonin because i had to fall asleep sleep fast because i was working the next day , this night i woke up during the middle of the night and decided to take one more melatonin tablet , and ended sleeping but waking up extremely tired . After that night every single night im waking up several times per night and without taking melatonin i cant go back to sleep until 5am most of the time . So what i did is a start taking lower dose to initiate sleep so when i wake up and take more i don’t take more than usual for the night. This thing drives me crazy. I’ve been experiencing lots of stress lately , im a med student with a lot of academic pressure, im working , volunteering at the hospital , studying, had a recent break up about 6 months ago that was terrible, move out to new place and so on . No surprise really that i have issues, and i will address that to specialist but i want to hear your advice too , i have never been through that before its scary.

2 months ago, I was a wonderful sleeper. Regularly spelt 7-8 hours a night and even napped 1-2 hours some days. I got my stupid wisdom teeth out last month and it all changed from there. Idk if it was the meds they gave me or the trauma of the procedure but 10 days after I got them removed, I had a couple sleepless nights which then turned into a night with 0 sleep, which was the first time that has ever happened for me.

I briefly turned to alcohol to sleep but have stopped that fully as of last week but now my insomnia is worse than ever. This past week, I had maybe one decent night of 6 hours of sleep. I'm working with a therapist and a doctor too but I don't want to take meds to sleep as I'm only 27. It's literally ruining my life and I can't seem to think of anything else. I'm not kidding when I say 99% of my thoughts are about sleep and regret around my wisdom teeth. I can't even distract myself - when I watch TV shows with my husband I'm still thinking about sleeping. When I'm working, I'm still thinking about sleep. My family is worried about me. I know what the issue is. My anxiety around not sleeping is creating a feedback loop. I've watched the Sleep Coach School's videos and they help but it's so hard putting it into practice.