can someone tell me if she has experiences chronic insomnia---just a total inability to go to sleep at all and how it was handled. I have been on every drug there is and almost nothing has had any more than a short life and I have no idea how to handle not sleeping. Do I pretend I work to shifts and sleep only three hours on something? Do I just stay up for several days and sleep only one out of every 4. I don't sleep at all. I have seen that drs and nurses have a difficult time understanding that concept. They want to tell me that I sleep, I just don't realize it. I don't sleep. I am up and down and walking around. What do people do besides the usual healthy sleep habits and meditation, counting backward, drugs (that don't work for me), meletonin, valarian, sleep clinics? My address is abbey3211@dontgotmail.com. Any help will be appreciated if it doesn't mimic what has already been told to me and which I have already tried.
And to answer Cheryl's question, yes. I will feel tired and ready to go to bed, lie down and immediately feel a rush. Brain opens up and every part of me says "good morning"---almost every night. And because of that, I began feeling afraid to go to sleep. It is so nice to read that other people experience this and I am not alone. I have felt alone and scared.